Re: [microsound] GSS_GOLD_rev1.pdf

[Domonkos Nagy <nagydom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

online copy here :- http://www.fylkingen.se/hz/n4/cascone.html

best,
Domonkos

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:27:27PM -0600, David Powers wrote:
> May I get a hotline password?  (Website says to contact you) - I'd
> really like to read this essay, I'm examining issues around laptop
> performance currently.
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> >>> kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/15/05 02:06PM >>>
> 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. 
> 
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