Re: [microsound] Money/Mouth - PERFORMING LIVE

[The pHarmanaut <pharmanaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm beginning to feel like one of those chained-up fuckers in Plato's cave.
Regardless of what "acousmatic" is and/or is claimed to be, what I like
about an OVNI performance is the fact that you CAN have access to the
artists, you can see these guys back there turning knobs and monitoring a
variety of programs. You can buy `em a drink. Whatever.

I think it's absolutely crucial that an audience member be able to access
the performers at some level and to recognize that these persons, or these
person-machine assemblages, are participating in the creation of this
illusion, this show, this concert. The problem in Plato's cave is that the
slaves are unable to see the puppeteers and the lighting effects technicians
and voice actors creating the shadow play on the opposite wall. That is
definition of a technological and ontological tyranny, and I have no
interest in an artform that would adopt this position.

In the context of laptop, I'm not necessarily saying that this means artists
need to hand out blueprints of their max-patches at the door. But I do think
it means that you need to at least see the person and the instrument, see
that there is a hybrid of human and technological products that creates the
illusory space of art. Otherwise, to attempt to hide the fact that the
artistic illusion is a production of this precise relationship of
human-machine, turns art into the bad kind of lie. Derrida writes a lot
about the good kind of lie, the one where both sides are in on it. That's
the kind of performance I'm interested in.

But then, I'm just a simple caveman.

-=Trace

> 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?