RE: [microsound] performan/anti-performance

[Danny Wyatt <danny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>in this presentation, the work and the listener's experience of it were
>freed from any traditional concept of performance. there was almost
>an element of religious dogma at work: the listener had a "fennesz
>experience", but was content to take it on faith that the unseen and
>unseeable fennesz was "up there", somewhere.


Indeed, this was my experience.  "I think that last bit was Vladislav Delay,
but this sounds like Fennesz."  "Hmmm, these beats now might mean that it's
been Vladislav Delay all along, or actually it's probably We."  "Well, now
it sounds like Delay again."  "And now Fennesz."  If they were indeed all
playing together, I think one or another came to the fore eventually, but,
in the end, eh.

The visuals though, were at first interesting, then pretentious, then
clever.  The one man's head that had elementary correspondences with two or
three of the sounds played was interesting.  Then I wished it would change
more.  Then it became sort of an avatar for the performers.  Sort of like
Kraftwerk's robots taken on for a whole evening.  it was no more or less
entertaining than watching five guys with laptops and trying to guess which
twitches corresponded to which sounds.




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