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RE: [microsound] Re: no input mixing board



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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