Re: [microsound] hidden from the audience

[ross birdwise <rbirdwise@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think I sensed the social signifigance intuitively
when I raised the question in the first place.  I like
your attitude.

Last summer I did a performance which approached this
almost zero degree of spectacle (if it is indeed a
still a zero degree when you take the social aspect
into account!), A friend of mine and I played a cd and
mixed it carefully.  We performed inside a gallery,
with no lighting save some light coming in through a
window (very low light-it was night) and the light
from the mixers eq.  We were billed as 'the
readymades' and our set was a series of pop love songs
that had been really deconstructed and distorted, in a
way that i felt wasn't simply ironic, but ambivalent
and beautiful in a noisy kind of way.  We wore white
hoodies that said 'readymade' on them.  We wre well
aware that were playing with the usual
audience/performer dynamic, as well as notions of an
'authentic' performance.  The sound was very crisp and
apparently many people really enjoyed it as an
auditory experience, as well as the conceptual ground
we were covering.  It was odd, it was music, it was
installation, it was performance art.  We definitely
exposed alot of new people to things like digital
glitches, clicks, hums, dropout, sounds abstracted
from their 'source'........

Ross
--- MVFarley@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 12/4/02 6:16:09 PM,
> rbirdwise@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> << how do people feel about a situation where
> someone
> plays back and does some very slight mixing to an
> entirley sequenced and/or prerecorded set? >>
> 
> I have given a lot of thought to this, and I really
> think that the social 
> aspect is often left out of discussions on this
> topic.  
> 
> You are in the same room with the person who created
> the music - that could 
> be quite special in itself.  Perhaps you will get to
> talk to the performer 
> afterwards, just to say hello, that might be a very
> special thing, if you are 
> a "fan," or whatever.  Also, you are with a bunch of
> other people listening 
> to the same thing at the same time, you might be
> wondering - why are they 
> here, could I find other people with the same
> interests?  Maybe I'm not the 
> only one in town who likes this kind of stuff.  And
> think what it means to 
> the performer - "Wow, you came to see me instead of
> staying home and watching 
> 'Will & Grace?'  Oh, you're taping it - whatever,
> it's great that you're 
> here!"  And further, you're hearing something on a
> sound system that you 
> would never install in your own home in a million
> years (which could be good 
> or bad, but at least it's different).
> 
> My point is that, going out to hear music,
> pre-recorded/sequenced or 
> otherwise, is a very complicated activity, which
> involves a lot more than 
> what is happening/not happening on stage.
> 
> michael  
> 
>
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