Re: [microsound] Re: laptop ethics

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> move to algorithmic systems, and here the performer might move a fader
> that, to the audience, has absolutely no discernable effect on the sound.
> what the hell is he doing up there, anyway? well, perhaps the fader
> adjusted the probability of a random fluctuation in the beat offset of a
> loop. sometimes it is just too complex to expect the audience to ever
> understand. visual displays can help, program notes can help... but it is
> hard to make this type of interface coherent to an audience - especially an
> "inexperienced" (non-geek) audience.


i agree, but think of our 'geek' brethren viewing an opera. i have. it was 
novel, but in the end intensely boring because it all sounds like singing in 
italian to me. had i some training in opera music i might have been able to 
tell that the soprano had a cold or seen by the way his/her shoulders were 
heaving that he/she was not quite up to it that night. is it a similar 
situation? i think so, but society accepts that wankers will pay exorbitant 
amounts of money to sit there and pretend they know what is going on. i 
can't see that happening in the computer music industry however.


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