Re: [microsound] Laptop, etc as Performance device

[andrew benson <cloudmachine99@xxxxxxxxx>]

I feel it is unnecessary to argue whether or not
something is a performance.  It's about the same as
arguing whether or not something is music, or worse,
Art.  My argument was specifically about the awareness
of how one's tool affects one's output.  I am
interested in what it means to the working artist to
restrict oneself to the use of keyboards for
controlling sound.  Indeed a great deal of creating is
the choice of limitations, but I wonder how many make
that choice in a critical manner.

Andrew


--- stephen hastings-king <brainstone@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> a performance is defined more as a situation than by
> any particular 
> actions.  or as an occasion, to cop a term from
> kierkegaard. so posting 
> this mail to microsound may be more a
> performance/performance-oriented 
> act than writing the same sentencees, in the same
> sequence, in my 
> notebook.  
> 
> for kierkegaard, the occasion is at once determinate
> and incidental.
> 
> 
>     >why wouldn't it?
> >
> >On Mar 15, 2005, at 7:10 PM, graham miller wrote:
> >
> >>> As a caveat, I
> >>> must admit that I have witnessed truly engaging
> >>> performances that involved nothing more physical
> than
> >>> a few keystrokes.
> >>
> >> okay... why was it a performance? does turning on
> a car radio 
> >> constitute
> >> a performance?
> >
> >
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