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Re: [microsound] Laptop, etc as Performance device
In a message dated 3/16/05 6:19:36 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
dev@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
This seems a very narrow definition of a performance. What if the
performance is explicitly related to the intermediality of audio and
video?
dev
when I wrote my rant, I was directing it to the intermediately (the correct
spelling) of audio. If video is involved I can justify where performance is
needed, an attack on both sense of hearing and seeing.
your direct assault is benign, this discussion is to characterize the
growing aspect of the limitations a laptop performer faces in front of a crowd.
Should laptop be given a place in the field of performance art?, I think so.
what difference are present between keyboard performers and laptop
performer. They both sit hidden behind a mechanical contraption, they both manipulate
the sound they are developing, be it programmed or created. If you say
talent, you are much blinded by your own falsifications.
Laptop performance is boring, I've sat through the drowning's of beeps and
buzzes, but the ingenuity and consumption of ability to manipulate sound to
their own distinct art is the true performance. Artists with performance to
their presentation hold a genre of their own. I could never place Emil
Beaulieau in the same category as a laptop artist. His performance exhaust the
creativity of performance art, where laptop artist lack. rearing back to the
question should laptop performers risk their art by creating a visual
performance to appease the few bored individuals? I don't think so.
enjoy
G