Re: [microsound] Live Performance

[Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph Siemion wrote:

> jonah wrote:

> but then i look at a computer, and its like,
> point-click-drag-boring.... its not musical. or rather, the computer is
> musical, but _you_ aren't -- you can't play it as an instrument, you can
> only tell it how to play itself.
>
> -jonah"

there are many more ways, musical and otherwise, to use a computer live.

>
>
> jonah is a great counterpoint to much of the 'live' discourse.
>
> i wonder if there are two paradigms of live performance here that
> may be equally valid:  the paradigm jonah espouses, whcih is the one
> we've been familiar with for the last 60 yrs
>  and a new one that focuses more on sound and composition, rather than
> virtuosity of the instrument.

it's more like 260 years.

>
>
> <snip>
>
> im curious to see how laptopjockying will play out in the coming years.
> will it be accepted as a performance 'norm' or will it fall by the
> wayside
> as a bad idea, becoming a relic of the past.  if it does indeed become a
> new paradgm of performance, it will probably need to be supplemented
> with some visual effects (film loops) (as it sometimes is) and/or some
> other live application
> (dancing bears, flamethrowers,etc;).

Actually  I use the computer as an "extension" to my instrument.  I control
the computer with my guitar which gives me the fine control that is beyond
"point-click" technique.  I know a few other people doing this kind of stuff
(except their programming chops are a bit better than mine... still working
on it)

>
>
> and if laptopjockying becomes the norm, will using a desktop become
> "punk"!?  it would be pretty funny!
>
> take this post as a meditation on possibilities and an attempt at
> reconcilliation between what jonah deems worthy of performing live
> and what laptopers (or the desktop punkers!) maintain is acceptable
> for live performance.
>

I would be a desktop punk, then.
It's worse, because in the near future I will use 2 desktops.

../MiS