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

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

it still doesn't changing the fact that some DJs are indeed 'just playing
records' while others are clearly operating at higher another level of
musicality. same goes for laptop music. and of course the level of one's fame
is not necessarily proportionate to one's level of talent. many of these
'superstar' DJs are average DJs on a good night. just like the last thousand
years of music, it'll still come down to good musicians and bad musicians,
the talented and the untalented. if indeed the laptop has allowed 'everyone'
to make music within more democratic system, you're still going to see the
same hierarchies emerge, the same ratios. there will just be more good music,
and accordingly, more bad music.

g.

Phil Thomson wrote:

> > On May 9, 2004, at 5:15 PM, graham miller wrote:
> >
> > The most common complaint I hear about modern music live performance
> > (and especially people using computers) is "they're not doing anything"
> > ("they could just be reading their e-mail"). Now of course "they're not
> > doing anything" is completely untrue. They're making music is what
> > they're doing. But there's no visual analog. When we see a person
> > playing a guitar or sax or drums we get visual cues to the sound we
> > hear; basically cause and effect. But, and I see this a lot, when a guy
> > is sitting there with his chin resting on one hand while the other
> > casually strokes the trackpad there's no perceptible cause/effect
> > relationship. It doesn't bother me, but I can understand when people
> > complain.
>
> I wonder if it's only a matter of time before this is accepted. I can
> imagine for example, that some people might have originally had resistance
> to the concept of DJ's as musicians (after all, they're "just playing
> records"). But now it's possible to be a superstar DJ; the performance
> ritual of turntablism has become understood in the mainstream. Can people
> imagine the same thing happening with laptop music? Or is the digital
> analog too much of a stretch?
>
> P
>
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