Re: [microsound] laptops kim's article

[pelagius pelagius <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re: Performance and Spectacle.

I don't think these two should be equated and I don't think the 
"dissatisfied laptop audience" is necessarily looking for spectacle.  I 
believe Performance is something else entirely that involves the intangible 
relationship between the performer and the audience which can involve 
movement or non-movement, spectacle or complete lack of visual stimuli and 
still be a successful performance.  There is something mystical that happens 
in a good performance beyond visual and musical entertainment.

Perhaps the problem is that some musicians become lulled into a stupor by 
the 75Hz flicker of their screen and the performance suffers accordingly.

Or maybe musicians who should be studio-only artists are moving into live 
performance out of a fear that there will soon be no way to sell recorded 
music-objects for profit.

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