RE: [microsound] Seeing and being seen (was laptop ethics)

[franco ingrassia <ingrassia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

we do not work for the spectacle of the end of the world

but for the end of the spectacle world

[guy debord]

no musician, no audience, no spectacle

but cultural experiences

(imho)

franco. 


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> De: Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> A: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Asunto: [microsound] Seeing and being seen (was laptop ethics)
> Fecha: Domingo 21 de Noviembre de 1999 5:49 PM
> 
> Since we've mentioned the notion of audience
> expectation before, perhaps we might also give
> some notice to traditions in which a person
> sitting at a desk with a laptop *would* be 
> sufficient. To some extent, I'm sure it's possible
> to imagine stuff from the auld "computer music
> as cultural/audio research" paradigm that might
> be a completely valid way to think of public appearance,
> though not necessarily one to everyone's liking. It
> might be true that that whole thing went down with
> the rusted hulk of the good ship High Modernism, but
> somehow I don't think so. At any rate, the "output"
> is what's at question, not the performative skills of
> the person in question.
> 
> We might also consider some more Cageian influences,
> in which the performance is an entirely internal
> experience shared by each person present in their own
> particular way. From that point of view, the performer
> at some pains to efface their presence might want to
> foreground the stuff that's being produced. Again,
> perhaps this and other Conceptualist ways of thinking
> about and presenting work might be somewhat passe,
> though I'd hope not.
> 
> A final thought which occurs to me is that some of
> the difficulties we perceive might be reactive - that
> is, the arrival of postMTV-era rave spectacles may
> implicitly or explicitly change the expectation on the
> part of what audience we may imagine - an audience which
> uncritically *expects* to be visually and aurally
> stimulated. Since some number of the people here are,
> I suspect, engaged themselves in attempting to move
> that visual engagement away from one contolled entirely
> by the discourse of popular culture, there's bound to
> be some overlap between that uncritical set of audience
> expectations (and the closer the work we do approaches
> the popular sphere, the greater this pressure becomes)
> and folks who've made the personal choice to explore the
> visual and audio together (Messrs deKam and Singer some
> to mind here), and thus up the ante for the rest of us.
> 
> _
> knowledge is not enough/science is not enough/love is dreaming/this
equation
> Gregory Taylor/WORT-FM 89.9/ http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~gtaylor
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