Nicolas Grenier wrote:
Wow, what a machine and what an ending. Is that the first time it is being done!? Quite a breakthrough! Hehe! It obviously looks more like a joke or parody than some random self-destructive act so typical of rock'n roll. The thing was perfectly worthy of destruction. I guess you gotta be stuck-up to not digest that.
--- "tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
I thought the performative ending was rather well designed.
The language on the webpage explaining the keyboard bashing is rather depleted, attempting to uphold and explain the event to a much more mainstream audience, and initially put me off the action ..
.. until I realised it was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, methinks.
For once I saw the video, the fire & the bat combined with the beats made sense : why not ?
I've always wanted to stage a microsound performance that consisted of nothing save for the smashing of the laptop.
And yah, right at the end, the keyboard suspends a flattened frequency before dying in molten plastic & toxic fumes ..
Someone's got to do it .. I think most negative
reactions are just covert
jealousies.
Pass me the next bat.
- tV
my compaq presario laptop was such a lemon that i couldn't even sell it for parts, so i gave it to a friend to scavenge. maybe i should have kept it and, like you described above, tobias, smashed the hell out of it at a show. andrew
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