RE: [microsound] microvising...and structures

[Gunnar Garness <ggarness@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oohhh, very good!  That's exactly what I'm getting at.  See, I'm not sure
that one can truly improvise with nothing more than a mouse or touchpad and
standard gui sliders, etc...at their disposal.   Maybe alternative
interfaces would make laptop based improvisation more interesting and
expressive such as some of the full body controllers that surface at places
like the MIT Media Lab?  "Visceral" is a great word.  I think it certainly
is possible to bring the body back into the performance of and potentially
into the improvisation of computer based music.

Gunnar

----------Original Message-----
-----From: Kenric McDowell [mailto:jrvarsity@xxxxxxx]
-----Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:44 PM
-----To: microsound
-----Subject: RE: [microsound] microvising...and structures
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-----
-----What do list members think of the computer's relationship
-----to the body in
-----performance? Traditional improvisers are acting in an area
-----where muscle
-----memory (rather than computer memory) and mental memory
-----merge and expression
-----can become very visceral. Are laptop improvisers conscious
-----of this? There
-----seems not to be an instrumental background in the
-----microsonic realm. Is the
-----body left behind like it is in so many other
-----computer-centric forms?
-----
------km
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