I second the suggestion. I'd also add this one: http://www.amazon.com/Living-Electronic-Music-Simon-Emmerson/dp/0754655482/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308773106&sr=8-1
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Pagano, Patrick <[email protected]>wrote: > May I suggest. > http://www.amazon.com/Liveness-Performance-Mediatized-Philip-Auslander/dp/0 > 415196906 > > > > > pp > > On 6/22/11 11:08 AM, "Mathieu Bouchard" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Onyx Ashanti wrote: > > > >> The thing is, nobody asks a violin player what he's playing (as > >>somebody > >> mentioned a few messages ago, sorry for the lack of proper quoting > >> here), I believe, because these traditional instruments are already > >> within our culture, > > > >It's not just that, it's that the number of parameters is limited. With > >computer music there is no way we can learn to understand what's going on > >in the manner that we did with traditional instruments, simply because it > >doesn't take many variables at a same time to become confused, and with > >computer music there are always more variables that can be added to > >confuse the audience, and those variables can be added and removed at any > >time. > > > >Every show is a potential opportunity to confuse the experts about what's > >going on, more than it ever was. > > > >> but with electronic music, we're all a bunch of jilted lovers because > >> were are all so used to hearing amazing music that was created in a > >>very > >> unexciting manner. what this project is, currently, is "ok" sounding > >> music, done in an exciting manner (to me). thats why i looked so calm > >> on the TED video even though my effects wouldnt latch (assigned to the > >> extremes of the accelerometer range), because i had to concentrate of > >> multiple variables at once and no longer have the distraction of > >> "ease"...every performance is a strain and it is the best feeling EVER! > > > >The audience has no idea what you wanted it to sound like, so they have > >no > >way to measure your satisfaction other than looking at how you seem to > >feel like. > > > >> when doing a DJ set or an ableton set, it is hard to suck because its > >> all pre-recorded...you can even put on a song and go to the toilet. > > > >In the early days of the Pd Montréal users group (or actually, before), > >there was that joke that the performer could very well be checking his > >email while his music plays on its own. We were talking about Pd, because > >one can also use Pd in this manner. We were talking about the lack of > >proof of the « liveness » of a performance. > > > >> I love what girl talk does. he covers his laptop in saran wrap to keep > >> drinks from killing it, and he just has everyone around him for the > >> duration of his set. THAT is the future. > > > >Doesn't that sound like the TopLap manifesto ? > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > >| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Pedro Oliveira www.partidoalto.net soundcloud.com/iburiedpaul
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