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Re: [microsound] Re: on working methods for live performance



> fucking good and certainly movies help. I feel it is also useful if the
> sounds are referential to the space/time/ it is occurring in as someone
> said you can always listen to a record, otherwise. The visual may not be

Actually, with no offense meant to Chris for articulating this thought, I
think that if there's an obstacle to overcome, it's that idea -- that you
can always listen to the record.

Hypothesis:

The act of going to a public space and sharing the experience alters your
relationship to it.

Where is attention directed?  This is a deceptively trivial-seeming
question.

"Listening to an album" is for all of us a deeply ritualized set of
behavior patterns. "Going to a concert to hear music" is another.  "Going
to a bar to hear music" is another. To a gallery, another.

For me, currently, the opportunity cost of going to an event to hear music
is high enough that I pay a lot more attention to what I'm hearing while
I'm there, whether the performance is canned or not. My experience of it
is always shaped and my attention reinforced by the social pressure of
being in an audience.

Lemma:

"Live music" is a group of people listening together. It doesn't matter
what's being presented or how canned it is.

 best,
  aaron

PS that said, Chris, I agree that it's quite nice to have the added
impression (accurate or not) that the performer is engaged in dialog with
the present.

  ghede@xxxxxxxx
  http://www.quietamerican.org

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