Re: [microsound] Re: Alternative performance *experiences*

["tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I just had this last night w/ the laptop octet @ Mutek, aka "Narod
Niki:"

Richie Hawtin, Ricardo Villalobos, Akufen, Dandy Jack, Zip, Luciano,
Cabanne, and Dan Bell.

All playing live, trading off tracks, beatmatching on the fly. Until 4am.
Then the afterparty.

While no substances were involved last night for me, I nonetheless
experienced immersive synaesthesia, in part from the manic audience, the
hard-ass loops, and the soundsystem -- tailored by Julien Roy and Robert
Henke (aka Monolake), working the mixer, pushing decibels levels to the
point where we were yelling in the bathroom.

Best Mutek Sunday yet. Hands down.

tobias

> ... working my way up from arachnid
> consciousness in front of the stage-hive until the entirity of mile high
> stadium rolled up into a big mirror ball and I began telepathically
> communicating with folks on the other side of the stadium and our task was
> to reassemble the fragmented nature of the mirror into a smooth surface by
> rotating segments in vertical and horizontal patterns ... thinking I had
> totally lost it until a big biker dude in front of me turned around, without
> any prompting on my part, dropped his hand to my shoulder, looked me right
> in the eye, and said, "You're going to be okay. It's all going to fit back
> together." Similarly, thinking of De Quincey on laudanum, putting together
> "life-review" arras mosaics while listening to the London opera.

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