Thought this might be of interest to those not on microsound-l.
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the 20' to 2000 night @ ars electronica was planned to be a presentation of
the series that won the golden nica in the category of digital musics.
seeing as the series is now out of print, it was thought as a good way of
letting some of the particpants of the festival who are not from music
scene to hear some of featured artists.
from the very start of organising this event it was evident that not all
particpants would be able to come to linz (not just elph, but pan sonic,
brinkmann all only confirmed their ability to show up just weeks before the
event).
this is why i stressed to ars electroinca organisation that not everyone
will be showing up, but were all invited, and it should not state 'live
performance' anywhere.
nowhere in the ars program/catalogue did it state anything about live
appearences, but a presentation of the series. we could have just played
the cds with light and video installations, like for ryoji ikeda (who was
actually present) and wolfgang voigt (who never performs live).
over the last few months i was contacted by numerous people (including
journalists for major publications here), and i told them the same story
that its a presentation and although most of the particpants are coming a
few are still tbc, including pan sonic and elph.
at last years 20' to 2000 night in berlin sleazy did in fact show up on the
day of the show and did a performance of walking slowly between 2 light
beams.
with his blessing we arranged a similar performance with hooded figure
carrying the golden nica presented by thomas brinkmann.
the who point of the series and its winning of the nica was a feeling a
group particpitation within the global electronic community and not fans
turning up to idolize their favourite band, as most of the coil fans did.
these people obviously got the wrong end of the stick, and big time.
best
p