[microsound] GSS_GOLD_rev1.pdf

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:
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'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.