Re: [microsound] GSS_GOLD_rev1.pdf

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This article also appeared in Contemporary Music Review Volume 22 Part
4, 2003.

In reading the guidelines for submitting papers to the Review, one of
the stipulations is that the paper/article "has not been and will not
be published elsewhere".

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On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 01:06 PM, Kim Cascone wrote:

> I just placed another text on the hotline server in->
> /main/misc/reading/GSS_GOLD_rev1.pdf
> this was originally published in a book on Sound Art co-pub'd by Mille
> Plateaux...abstract below:
> #################################
> 'Grain, Sequence, System'
> [three levels of reception in the performance of laptop music]
> Intro:
> The increasing use of laptop computers in the performance of
> electronic music has resurrected timeworn issues for both musicians
> and audiences. Liberated by the use of the laptop as a musical
> instrument, musicians have blurred the boundaries separating studio
> and stage, as well as the corresponding authorial and performance
> modes of work. On the other hand, audiences experience the laptop’s
> use as a musical instrument as a violation of the codes of musical
> performance. This is not a new issue for electronic music: the lack of
> visual stimuli while performing on technological “instruments” has
> plagued electronic music for over 40 years with little progress in
> providing solutions. This essay discusses issues of performance from
> the point of view of how electronic music is received rather than how
> it is presented. Drawing on concepts found in “reception theory,” I
> will examine three levels of reception inherent in the performance of
> laptop music as used in the performance of contemporary electronic
> music. These three levels are: the grain of laptop performance, the
> sequence of historical linkages, and the system of super-culture and
> its effect of the reception apparatus of the public.
David Fodel
720-280-3179
805 East Chester St.
Lafayette, Colorado
80026


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