Re: [microsound] Performing "Live"

[Jeremy Tolsma <ccws@xxxxxxxx>]

> you could:
> - put a nice contact mic on various parts of the computer

yeah but you can put a contact mic on anything.

> and make
> the computer process the sh*t out of  photoshop image file and output the
> artifactual sounds

that falls under the 'playing back a datafile' usage

> - attempt to "circuit bend" a computer (if you have the electronics
> knowhow) and make something entirely different. (mine would be a nice
> paper weight :)  )

even with electronics knowhow I don't see how this would accomplish much
except for a dead computer and possibly a dead you.  A computer is not an
SK-1 or a speak&spell, its not operated with batteries, circuit-bending it
would be dangerous and probably pointless.

> -if you have a sony touchscreen, you could program a virtual guitar and
> "pluck" the "scring".

that falls under the 'triggering' and 'rendering' usage

> -thereamidi (got that on my palm)-would that be lumped into "rendering"?

no, that would be lumped under triggering.

> -infuse nanoprobes that convert infrared information into acoustical
> information into your audiences ears beam them a image file
>

now you're grasping, but again that would be triggering.. particularly novel
triggering though, lets hope somebody is impressed

> i was gonna writed down more ways, but it seems that they would fit into
> the categories that you have already established. oh well.

yep.  there are a lot of ways to use a computer, but they will all fall
under a few broad definitions.