--- Ryan Heard <ryan@ryanheard.com> wrote:
quoted 4 lines When i saw Friedmann "perform" he mixed with a small> When i saw Friedmann "perform" he mixed with a small
> mixer and what looked
> like 5 Minidisc players (perhaps dat.. couldn't
> see). Probably MD though...
Right, that's exactly what he's been doing - mixing anywhere between 5 and
10 MD players, running MDs of tracks he's done before hand. I can't tell if
by Ryan's scare-quotes he thinks that doesn't qualify as a performance, but
in my opinion, it's worlds away from simply hitting the play button on a
DAT. I've seen him do it three times now (once in Barcelona, twice in SF)
and every time it's been totally compelling, unpredictable, musical as fuck,
funky, not to mention risky - there are times when it verges on collapsing,
and he pulls it back. I think people forget how important the aspect of
risk is in live performance.
In my opinion, what Friedmann is doing isn't at all "performing" - it's
performing, playing, rocking out, and doing it masterfully.
(apologies, Ryan, if i misread your quotation marks...)
-phil
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