Re: [microsound] physical filter

[jim altieri <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

A short one.  I won't get carried away this time.  Just some personal
contributions to an interesting discussion.

For me, it's important to remember that my ears and the various other
physical hearing structures in my body are actively involved in the music I
hear, albeit in a slightly different way than my arms and hands are involved
when I play violin.  "It's not just the dac~; it's ears, baby, ears."

And my individual set of uniquely creative ears hear differently than the
other sets of creative ears in the audience. "Nerves firing - high, blood
rushing - low."

Laptop music (also acoustic free improv, in my opinion) affords the audience
and performers to have similar physical interactions with the music, with a
reduction of the performer/listener hierarchy. "Let's all listen together to
what's happening!"

In my opinion, this is a Good Thing(tm).  Not progress, not a further step
of Hegelian rationalization.  Just a kinda cool moment in time.

love and noise,
jim

on 11/13/02 3:26 PM, ross birdwise at rbirdwise@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> "Who's trying to remove the body?  We're trying to
> remove aural limits
> to perception of new aural concepts and the limits
> that the body imposes
> to the delivery of such concepts.  It's not the body
> that's the 
> problem; it's the container--the one that said that if
> you couldn't "play"
> conventionally, you had nothing whatsoever to say."
> 
> I think that the computer has a different set of
> limits because it requires a set of non-physical
> mental skills (ex.  creating a new sound with MAX/MSP,
> creating a complicated patch with MAX/MSP, perhaps the
> design of new software)and I do agree that it allows
> non-physically proficient individuals to enter into
> the realm of music.  This is probably the reason why
> some people say 'this isn't music' when listening to
> contemporary laptop composition, especially those
> compositions that make the medium  seem opaque.

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