Re: [microsound] performance techniques

[hans molar <moleofsoul@xxxxxxxx>]

Personally I have to agree with Ben. The sets
I enjoyed most were the ones that I knew were
live 

this brings up something i have been thinking about quite a bit lately, and i don't think i'm the only one. namely knowing something is live. and excatly how live comes into question. i think electronic performances, and in particular laptop shows, have introduce a sliding 'liveness' scale. pressing play on a dat being at the bottom and every instrument being played in the moment at the top. so my question lately is how do we judge this level of liveness (or do we even?). is having a sequence laid out and working the mix in a mad professor style all the way live? is dancing in front of a dat or rather having dancers, which is going back to the theatrical thing, live enough? i am sure that some people don't care and just want to be entertained or mystified or whatever but .... i think that it is safe to say that some people are leaving unsatisfied. i may be assuming too much. i may just be off my rocker. but i do think that there has to be some kind of understanding of excatly how much
 interaction is really going on between the performer and the audience. and how much is simply, to use someone else's words, 'collective listening'.   i know it is easy for people in the know to know, or at least have a good idea, of what or how the process is evolving but isn't it important for the audience too? they did pay for the show right? am i taking this too far?

 

cool, and Sue Costabile her live visuals

 

now that was very cool wasn't it.

having her there really broke the visuals out of the box. 


HANS MOLAR


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