RE: [microsound] Re: no input mixing board

[scott allison <lipistal3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yea, good point here... I think simplicity is key and also a understanding 
of the whole meet at off site group performances. Why I think its important 
to know if TN coined the term "no-input-mixing-board" (I honestly have no 
idea, maybe one of the musicolgists would know?) is because again it 
stresses simplicity or reductionism within its name. No input (such a direct 
way of saying no), and then you have SM using a sampler with no samples 
(actually though I think her sampler uses per-programed test tones?). Its 
important to consider what TN is doing in relation to minimalism, and that 
probably is what sets him apart from other people using a like feedback 
system. From hearing the number of works I have heard by him, I get the 
feeling he is using such a stripped down system as a device to limit his 
choices in terms of sounds and preformative efforts. In group works of 
"off-site" a single guitar pluck can be the entire basis for a set, so where 
as tudor and other performers might never be comfortable with the simplicity 
of only a single mixer, it makes total sense for someone interested in 
stresssing a focus, in focusing attention on subtle movements (taken to the 
extreme) your not going to find any entertaining melodies or beats such as 
you hear in so much music, instead you have the bearest of structure and 
sound and artist's that are completly stripped naked (not literally) that 
have found comfort in long periods of silence that often can be marked by 
intense uncomforable tones.

Personaly the work of the members of off-site, TN being one of the founders, 
is incredibly rich in its simplicity and performative intensity. Definitly a 
new take on minimalism that seems to reject software minimalism in favor of 
hardware electroacoustic systems of play/performance. Also a different 
understanding of space and time, that personal was become a welcome friend 
for me. Instead of using feedback as a source of extreme chaotic noise, TN 
seems to nurse the most sensitve sounds and washes of anyone using that 
set-up, probably what sets him apart, that and his collabortive efforts are 
also well worth the investment.

Ok gotta get back to work...

-Scott

> But I don't think Tudor ever would have done anything
> as simple as use a single mixer with no other
> components, so it depends on what you're talking about
> when you want to figure out who did what first.

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