on 4/18/02 12:50 PM, Albers, Brian at BAlbers@PremiereRadio.com scrawled:
quoted 6 lines Exceptions can be made with performance art type artists like Skinny Puppy
>
> Exceptions can be made with performance art type artists like Skinny Puppy
> or Crash Worship or that band who opened up for Books on Tape a couple weeks
> ago here in LA and as part of their show they made peanut butter and jelly
> sandwiches while they sang and passed them out to the crowd.
>
Hey.. that sounds like chaki.
That is nothing compared to this..
<snip>
after the concert, the stage is left to the cooks who then work the
instruments into a tasty vegetable soup which the audience and musicians
consume together. the concert's audience thereby has the possibility of once
again enjoying what they have just heard, examining any remaining
instruments more closely and conversing with the musicians...
that's from the mission statement of the Viennese vegetable orchestra more
at
http://www.gemueseorchester.org/
I agree with Brian's comments about going out to listen and little else. I
really don't know what the point of the other whiny comments about how
"visually engaging" a show delivered by a performer playing on a laptop is
or isn't. Miles Davis used to play with his back to the crowd half the time
and he took heat for that.. this argument isn't new. Some artists play
with the crowd, others to them.. no difference to me really. I'd rather
have a musician stare blankly at the audience and play their heart out then
get caught up in onstage campy rockstar games (i.e... peaches).
~g
http://www.laiad.com
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