[microsound] post-laptop era?

[juan antonio nieto arroyo]

Indeed, in recent years, the use of laptops in
live acts has been criticized for its statism and lack of spectacle. I
must say that some of the best concerts I've attended have been interpreted by "static"
musicians, mainly pianists and laptop artists, those I could barely see their heads.



Nobody
questions to Francisco Lopez by blindfolding the audience to their shows,
unlike everyone seems "cool"



We
have taken years bucked the ethics and aesthetics of rock and pop music to
somehow try to retrace our steps. I
think that's a mistake. Personally, when I go to a concert, what interests me
is not likely to be catching the "show" but concepts so out of
fashion as the creativity and talent, and I don’t mind the instrument they
play.



The
fact about depreciate the laptop as a musical instrument, is nothing more than
a fad, and like all fads, passing.

 

Soon we will read
in microsound the decline of contact microphones and effects units ... so physical.



--- El mar 15-dic-09, isjtar <list at isjtar.org> escribió:

De: isjtar <list at isjtar.org>
Asunto: Re: [microsound] post-laptop era?
A: microsound at microsound.org
Fecha: martes, 15 diciembre, 2009, 7:46 pm

interesting.personally i see many evolutions, from the mainstreaming of
Ableton Live as a sequencing instrument,  the broad acceptance of live
fx on acoustic instruments, the incorporation of homemade and factory
controllers. also large and small touch screens everywhere - which i
don't think is the great next evolutionary step.
anyway at my org we are looking at using embedded devices to make
computers specific to music.
like hardware, but more flexible
like a controller, but without the need for a computer
like a laptop, but not necessarily with screen, keyboard and mouse
i really think custom computers tailored to your idea of a musical
instrument can be quite powerful.

adern, with sinewave music you mean synthesis in general?

isjtar

http://okno.be

Adern X wrote:
> IMHO in the last two years laptop moved from being a music generator
> to the state of a music controller. In other words, if some times ago
> laptop music used mostly sinewaves as input, now it seems more
> interesting doing realtime manipulation of samples (or somenting
> coming from audio inputs) or play with other (real?) instruments.
> The result is that it seems less "laptop-music" perhaps because, for
> me, music using sinewaves seems in a creative cul-de-sac.
>
> Hi!
>
> Il giorno 15/dic/09, alle ore 18:38, Kim Cascone ha scritto:
>
>> over the past couple of years I've noticed interesting developments
>> in new music
>> one is the seemingly sudden plethora of laptop musicians
>> the other is the death of laptop music
>>
>> interested in hearing opinions regarding the state of new music
>> culture and .microsound
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