Re: [lowercase-sound] Re: [microsound] off-icmc

[Dale Lloyd <dkl37@xxxxxxxx>]

The Reinhold Friedl situation is a shame and obviously people like him
should not be organizing arts events! Being at a university, there may
have been some pressures coming from the faculty there. I'm one to bring
that sort of problem to someone's attention to raise awareness and to
remind certain people that an art's event should be enjoyable not only
for the audience, but also for the artists. It should be obvious that how
an event is operated can effect performances by the artists. Organizers
like Friedl and whoever else that was behind the Media Art Lab event,
seem to treat artists like machines that they can flip a switch and push
a button to start and stop their performance when they want. Does
computer music  partially and unwittingly inspire this sort of attitiude?


On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 18:06:28 +0900 (JST) charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> At Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:53:50 +0200, Miau-Miau International wrote:
> > off-ICMC: so much to see! simultaneous performances in every 
> corner!
> > help, lookout -- it's another serious-looking man with a laptop,
> > inflicting hearing damage!
> >
> > there's been some very good things so far.
> > these were some highlights (subjective of course) -
> >
> > monday:
> > farmersmanual (w/ amazing nato.0+55 video)
> > bernhard gunther
> 
> Because of this simultaneity,
> you couldn't attend all performances, and highlights
> were probably happening in the other room also.
> The musicians were not asked were they wanted to play,
> you could feel there the attitude of the organizer
> Reinhold Friedl, which was a political attitude, definitely not
> a musical one : some of the performances would have
> sounded much better in the big hall than in the small club
> (and inversely?).
> 
> Bernhard Guenther's concert was certainly a highlight, he played 
> first
> on Monday upstairs, I had to play second downstairs,
> I was listening to his very quiet and beautiful piece : "then, 
> silence",
> when Reinhold Friedl came to me and said "go down and play now",
> I said that I would go when Guenther is over because I didn't want 
> to
> disturb it more than it was already (people walking and talking,
> as well as the other performances happening downstairs were 
> resonating
> in the hall, all this was clearly disturbing Guenther's piece).
> Then Friedl said "if you don't play now your concert is cancelled".
> When I got down to begin my performance fifteen minutes later
> he came and told me again "it is not necessary to play anymore".
> Very nice to hear that before playing !
> Isn't that a highlight too ?
> 
> -
> christophe charles
> Musashino Art University_Media Art Lab
> 185-0087 Tokyo Kodairashi Ogawacho 1-736
> tel +81(0)42-342-6070
> http://kubric.musabi.ac.jp/charles
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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