Sorry Marco, but I can see that you have never played jazz!
Ingo ________________________________________ Von: Marco Donnarumma [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Montag, 20. Juni 2011 13:43 An: Ingo Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED Ingo, thanks for your explanation, I think to understand how he's playing. The movement looks to me secondary - it's more like a dance movement and not too much music control. This might be a very personal take, but if movement is secondary in gestural control, why one uses gestural control at all? I believe that effective and ancillary gestures are what reinforce our perception of an instrument as a musical tool, rather than a mere "device". Imho many gestural controllers would benefit of a better focus on this aspect. How would you play such melodic lines (like those jazz licks) - in time - simply with gestural control? Setting an array of preset chords, triggering them with multiple switches, deploying a timeline which holds the trigger until the onset of the next beat or quarter, etc... I guess the list here could come up with many other methods. I'm not saying that's trivial, I only think that it's not the "future" as it is presented in the video. How would you improvise on scales, pattern or harmonic structures? After all he's a jazz player calling his music "beat jazz". What do you call improvisation in this case? How much is he improvising? I can imagine he's "improvising" with the melodic lines, but playing samples and presets chords doesn't match my own definition of improvisation. cheers, M -- Marco Donnarumma Independent New Media and Sonic Arts Professional, Performer, Instructor ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing) The University of Edinburgh, UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com Lab: http://www.thesaddj.com | http://cntrl.sourceforge.net | http://www.flx er.net Event: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
