Re: [microsound] laptop (performance) ethics...

[MilkAlive@xxxxxxx]

a powerbook is an electric guitar. 
power book in 2000 = electric guitar in 1955.
the cliched gestures of performance are being formed now. create yours today, 
be considered a pioneer tomorrow !
whats wrong with sweaty rock styled performance? even if feigned?
Don't fear your genitalia, they are good fuel. If you create something 
spontaneous with your laptop in a public place through a  p. a.,the audience 
may perceive the risk.
Then again I've seen an audience of nerdyboys transfixed by one of their own  
playing a CD in his g3 powerbook, complete with decoy peak files on the 
screen 
 (lexaunculpt at any given gig, that chickenshit).
nevermind, nobody ever notices anything except the price of beer.
carry on, brains

brad laner

p.s. my good friend rick potts (lafms) says that in the 70's if you did 
anything electronic or collage-y, people would say, "number 9, number 9" 
because they had a pop culture reference to music concret via the 
beatles..isn't that funny?