RE: [microsound] Money/Mouth - PERFORMING LIVE

[David Fodel <DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Chris wrote: What you've done sounds pretty interesting, while
> certainly not acousmatic.
> 
No I am really confused. If acousmatic means "hidden from view", and I am
playing audio from a laptop behind people in an audience who are watching
some video on a screen, and the audio lacks any sort of sign/signifier
connection, then how is it NOT acousmatic?

Sorry for the apparent density in my neural tissues... after all I am just
an anti-intellectual American.


David Fodel
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> From: 	Christopher Sorg
> Reply To: 	microsound
> Sent: 	Friday, May 17, 2002 2:03 PM
> To: 	microsound
> Subject: 	RE: [microsound] Money/Mouth - PERFORMING LIVE
> 
> > So I guess this whole discussion is meaningless to me as our intent is
> > merely to present our work, as it pertains (albeit loosely) to
> > whatever the
> > concept behind it is. We use video and audio to do this. It is mixed
> live,
> > in a structured improvisational way, so it is in fact "performed" to
> some
> > degree, but thats not really the point.... we don't wish to show off our
> > virtuoso command of our "instruments" per se, we are "presenting" ideas
> > through sound and image.
> >
> > Which I believe is somewhat different than the topic of this thread eh?
> >
> > David Fodel
> 
> Well, not really.  What you've done sounds pretty interesting, while
> certainly not acousmatic.  But I've seen perhaps only one laptop
> performance
> similar to what you described, performed by mixing pre-recorded tracks in
> ProTools to film.  The performer faced the film rather than the audience,
> and it completely changed the way the audience reacted.  They laughed and
> spoke out loud a bit in reaction to what they saw.  Certainly not
> acousmatic
> but also not the "rock star" position, either; I found it fun and
> inviting.
> 
> I'd be interesting in hearing about other solutions to the laptop
> challenge.
> __________________________________________
> Christopher Sorg
> Multimedia Artist and Instructor
> The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
> http://csorg.cjb.net
> csorg@xxxxxxxxx
> 
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