[microsound] post-laptop era?

[Mike]

Experimental means the seats are full at the start and empty before  
the performance is over.

*1 excluding the friends of the performers.

Microsound or the laptop instrument as with all music must invoke a  
reaction, clapping in apprciation or adding to the performace the  
sound of coats being put on followed by shuffles coughs bemused  
muttering and doors opening. The audience replaced with silence.

Begs the question, was the performance for the audience or the artist?

Is the audience that claps at the end any different to those empty  
seats ?

The artist performed the work in both cases.

Experimental for me means learning new techniques, building input and  
output devices to implement the idea which often is a mistake or  
chance find itself. The laptop or rather tools in it are part of a  
processing chain driven by curiosity and a desire to match and exceed  
the crap thats already out there.

-Mike
I build ideas, others play them.





On Dec 16, 2009, at 6:08, michael trommer <trommer at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I think that my issue with your argument stems from it appearing as
> blinkered as that which you are arguing against. Although you seem  
> to claim
> not to have any bias against popular/pop/whatever music, the wording  
> you
> use, the examples you put (or don't put) forth strongly suggest that  
> you do.
> It does smack of elitism, I must say...
>
> I do agree that there's a great deal of crap out there - that goes  
> for the
> supposed avant-garde (most of which is, in my opinion, very often  
> boring,
> stuck up its own arse, and hiding its inadequacy behind a  
> overcomplicated
> façade of academic rhetoric), as well as the mainstream.
>
> On 12/15/09 10:43 PM, "David Powers" <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not looking to Beatport for experimental digital music, I'm
>> talking about the mainstream in digital music... I look to live
>> performances and available recordings on the internet for more
>> experimental offerings. But I wonder if the category of  
>> "experimental"
>> even means much in the 21st century?
>>
>> ~David
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Jared Friend  
>> <tjaredfriend at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe the crucial flaw in your argument is that you are looking to  
>>> beatport
>>> for experimental digital music.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:21 PM, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And sorry, for my "stereotyped" idea of digital music, I'm  
>>>> looking at
>>>> the records that are selling on Beatport and that DJ's around here
>>>> play, and listening to some of the things I hear passing for
>>>> exmperimental. I'm not at all saying that there aren't great  
>>>> musicians
>>>> out there. It's just that, I don't know who they are or how to hear
>>>> them, and they certainly aren't that easy to find.
>>>
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