fete du bruit

last night, contrary to my normal habits, i ventured out into the experience that is known as 'La Fête de la Musique'. in my humble opinion, it should be changed to 'La Fête du Bruit' (festival/celebration of noise).

to be fair, my impression of the evening may have been coloured by the fact that we were sitting near le jardin luxembourg and were receiving the audio stimuli from at least 5 different groups simultaneously. which resulted in, what i would deem, "noise pollution".