Re: [microsound] microvising

[Bill Ashline <bashline@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> while I was performing in Stuttgart this past summer with Pita and Hecker
> we had a discussion with the curator of the Kunstlerhaus about laptop
> microsound being the "new jazz"...I was wondering if there were any
> opinions on this list about the concept of "microvising"?...


It's a nice trope, perhaps the "schizotrope" of the millenium (to steal a 
term from Pinhas).  Certainly a better word than "new jazz" which, though 
containing the notion of improvisation, has nothing of the new minimalism in 
the approach.  It also suggests "seeing little things" (microvision) as well 
as revising, re-seeing, or redoing something (after the encounter with the 
glitch).  So I think it's a term loaded with confusing ambiguities and 
therefore one that deserves currency.  The concept also seems to be one of 
the primary obsessions of Abbey and the Erstwhile label--microvising in 
duet, but as he suggested elsewhere, not appropriate for those who do not 
improvise in live performance (Ikeda [perhaps?] and others).
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