Re: [microsound] performance techniques

[Ant Weiss <antonv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

yeah, I think this is exactly my point - trying to put myself in the place
of a "naive" listener - someone who doesn't "know" which sets are live and
has only his ears and eyes (well probably the whole body counts, as well as
soul, heart, mind etc :)) to enjoy the performance...
and yes I also believe the performer has some kind of responsibility towards
the audience...

ant

----- Original Message -----
From: "hans molar" <moleofsoul@xxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: [microsound] performance techniques


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> Personally I have to agree with Ben. The sets
> I enjoyed most were the ones that I knew were
> live
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> 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?
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> cool, and Sue Costabile her live visuals
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> now that was very cool wasn't it.
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> having her there really broke the visuals out of the box.
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> HANS MOLAR
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