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Re: [microsound] Re: livecoding
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, alex wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 12:28 -0700, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Electronic artists in general have a hard time around here (unless we
chose to stay locked in a room for the rest of our artistic life). We are
middle class intellectuals like most of the posters in microsound, but we
ARE constrained when it comes to artistic production. This is why I was
proposing a more socialist approach to an e-music performance, not so
technocratic, a way to adress people who dont even know what is code, and
maybe even never saw a laptop other than on TV.
Sure but this is a general argument against computer technology and not
against livecoding in particular.
*snip*
The principal barrier to use in the rich west of computers is one of
economic status - people are largely familiar with the idea of a computer
and its basic use, but they're still not cheap enough to sit atop every
desk. There are additional barriers however to the ability to enjoy in an
aesthetic setting code, barriers overcome only with education or hackery
more or less extensive in commensuration with the code's nonobviousness to
the uninitiated. When the prospective audience is able to enter the
community of those to whom the art is meaningful, or otherwise find
themselves in supply of the technological baseline necessary to take part
in computer art, that computer art should be considered elitist in only a
mitigated sense. More or less extensive education or hackery, however, are
available to a much more restricted group, indeed, elite, group than that
which is capable of taking meaningful part in computer art, allowing
practices such as livecoding to be considered less socialist.
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