RE: [microsound] laptops kim's article

[mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No - I don't think so. 

Music in the presence of the performer (whether interpretting 
the works of others - performing their own compositions or 
generating the music live by improvisation or jamming) has a 
magical quality that is not really available elsewhere (although 
it is often hinted at in live recordings). 

It is wrong to think that someone with a laptop is not playing 
live - and in all fairness I have experienced some stunning live 
laptop - Stock Hausen and Walkman supporting Zoviet France 
in Edinburgh a few years ago comes to mind as a particularly 
stand out example. 

In think that in time the laptop (or equivlant portable digital 
studio - 'cos thats what we are talking about) will become 
accepted simply because more people know what is going on. 

mark 



-----Original Message-----
From: damian abbott [mailto:damabb@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 April 2002 14:06
To: microsound
Subject: Re: [microsound] laptops kim's article



> ... perhaps it's the value of "live performance"
> that is
> being fundamentally undermined.

.... perhaps it's the value of "live performance" that
has always been fundamentally over-estimated?


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