Re: [microsound] hidden from the audience

[Johnnymisheff@xxxxxxx]

hmmmmmm...
i'm not sure if you ended up enjoying the idea of a duchampian style experiment, or if you'd have our whole lot scrap the idea of an escape from the everydayness of man or woman on stage with laptop.  
thank god for human nature, and it's ability to impress us with the new and exciting.  maybe this nature could spell out a new form of performance, or maybe we could adjust our inability to see things that aren't particularly stricking at first glance.  
i am personally a big fan of an escape from the stage.  and not even in a physical sense, but perhaps even in the subtlety of a mask.  a mask allows for a whole new experience because a person performing with a mask on will likely lose most if not all of their inhibitions to be raw, and produce energy not yet seen outside the confines of his/her bathroom-- mirror steamed, naked body, etc.  i have enjoyed this masked performance on a few occasions.  it's easier for a person to get naked if you can't see their face.  the more we lose these inhibitions with masks, the potential to lose the masks and let the raw shine through becomes more evident.   
i propose a detatchment of traditional values when something nontraditional is being displayed.  i don't mean that we should lose our ability to constructively criticize.  
-johnny

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