My point was simply that the term "experimental" has become over used >and
stagnent in meaning. I am pushing for a more descriptive and in->depth
analysis of what Micho is doing.
alright, I was hopeing I could avoid typeing a long email, however,
respectfully I must explain what I do.
My visual arts i.e. video installations portray a microcosm of societies
strangulation by mediated tactiles. For instance, my installations
typically consist of larger then life television forms perverting the icon
of tv as a "demi-god" type alter (like the huge collisiums with monolithic
statues of our heros in greek games) But now, its "techno" and its in a
dark club with nowhere to hide, because the room has been wired with cameras
that bring the public into the same arena as the performer. The tactiles of
a mediated installation reaches out captures the performance, washes to the
crowd picking out people and electronically transferring them to the
monolithic archs with the performers, because thats what its all about, the
music, the soul, and the reaction of the crowd.
the experiment:: destroy the common "boundry" between performer and crowd,
individualize the people from the masses and project them onto a mass
communicative device. I simply overly exagerate what society does.
My audio experimentations are very experimentive in my opinion. You can
decide for yourself. I take drum machines and toys amongst other
instruments and open them up. The experiment is to disect them, find the
sound creating areas and give them the ability to be organic and have the
option of having interaction by the human environment. i.e. take the
tr-606, my most extensive experiment. I gave it the ability to have control
by human interaction to alter the sounds which were not controllable before.
The sounds are then taken to another level where say the hihats can
fluctuate in pitch by a cv in that controls the variance of the filter with
every pulse transmitted to that. The toys are given an alternate brain
which makes them do different things then what they were intended. The
sound is then transmitted to the audience by means of live interaction with
balanceing multiple drum machines
with toys and various sounds. I make the beats live and manipulate the
sounds live.
the experiment:: sure its been done, but not to the degree im taking it.
now a days alot of people presequence, preprogram, presample, pre this and
pre that. I aint doin it. its all live baby, just manipluations of
cycleing patterns and makeing that "repetition" sound as organic as possible
with as little digital as possible with a degree of interaction previously
unobtainable. call it modern electro-jazz or whatever.
so heres the scoop, my grand daddy was a scientist here in detroit many
moons ago. he invented many forms of metallic paint and what later became
known as napalm. sure paint had been around for years, he took it a step
further and invented metallic paint for automobiles, and today, they still
use it, he still gets paid for the patents. napalm was utilized in war,
that was simply a defunct paint mixture he came up with that was highly
combustionable.
The Moral::
one must learn the rules to break the rules and take it a step further.. and
reinventing is what it might be, but its another step in our evolution.
experimental is experimentation, be it some simple thing to some complex
thing, to each their own, as long as its experimentation to the one
experimenting, then its experimental.
much respect,
:micho aka: non-compliant
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