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Re: [microsound] re: on working methods for live performance
a heckler!
On Wednesday, May 12, 2004, at 10:34 AM, holzkopf wrote:
if it is true that demanding a performance is along
the lines of being more interested in a performance
that in hearing music. to those people: buy a nice
stereo and stay at home and listen. it will sound
better and save you a lot in ticket and travel prices
(which may not be a consideration for you big city
hipsters) for shows.
but it is fundamentally different.....
you need to look at the listening context - the reception
i would argue that performance is about shared listening, as much as it
is about anything else... and part of that shared listening includes
the creator of the sound... Realtime parameter manipulation is no
guarantee of a decent performance, nor does the absence of it mean that
performance cannot exist.
and by
hard i don't mean playing pre-recorded tracks off a
laptop (DJing is an art, playing your own tracks for
people who paid to see you is an ego trip), or by
using the same plug-ins and granulation whatever that
everyone else uses. keeping up to date on software
and using the hippest and newest in order to stay
cutting edge is just as dumb. by that i mean they
better be performing with their own voice, or why not
just see the people who did it first and better. the
performance better mean more than just filler for the
acoustic space. because of the nature of their
instrument,
there are an awful lot of imperatives here.....
I don't think any of these things have a bearing on a good performance.
it's just so easy for a laptopper to pull
a set out of their ass without practice or effort.
and so it is for a guitarist.... riff riff riff (yawn)
absolutely none of this is specific to laptop/electronic music.
making it so is missing the point....
don't shoot the messenger.
just drag and drop sounds into plug-ins (holy shit
listen to that crazy jitter effect!).
E A D G
F Fm C (was that the Beatles I just heard?)
I could check my email and do my tax return while playing this.... and
maybe watch tv at the same time.
in spite of
their crafty minimalist haircuts, black frame glasses
and heads filled with trivia about the 20th century
avant-garde,
and 60s punk and psych rock too....
they will be found out! xenakis wouldn't
have wussed out and pulled a piece out of his ass
no, he pulled them out of his log tables and slide rule......
julian
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