RE: [microsound] Performing "Live"

[Ian Guthrie Yeager <iyeager@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Elitist" or not, I think some interesting and important points are raised
here, and I tend to agree philosophically with Vance on this one: It's
more fun and often more interesting, both for the performer and the
audience, to have elements of gesture, chance, risk, etc. involved in a
performance. Yes, I've been to interesting recitals of tape music, where
everybody quietly listens to a DAT, and that can be fine, but it's a
different experience in many ways. Yes, I can appreciate sound for it's
own sake (i'm doing it constantly), but listening on my part doesn't
require a "performance."

To me, the only elitist dimension of this discussion is the constant (and
ridiculous) recomendation of expensive equipment as "advice on
performing."      

Ian Yeager
igy2k

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, a listener wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I play a laptop and a Nord Modular live. Mostly MAX/msp on the laptop. .  I
> improvise quite a bit and max is really the best platform for designing your
> own "environments" to improvise within.  For my last show I made a set list.
> .  but the space and the crowd's reaction made it too confining to
> stick-too.
> 
> I use the Nord as an accent some times, playing with the laptop, but mostly
> its something to mix to wile I change patches in max. . .
> 
> I think that I am going to re-write most of my max programs so that I can
> switch between them without mixing to the Nord. . . (the simpler the set-up
> the better).
> 
> My opinion about playing live is that if you are not actually doing
> something (more than FX tweaking) and don't have enough flexibility in your
> set up /playing method to react to the environment or crowd than I would not
> recommend playing live. Not to be discouraging its just that Live should be
> live. . .I think that you are cheating yourself if it is not really "live"
> (whatever live in quotas means).
> 
> Bye bye
> v(ance)stevenson.
> 
> 
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