Yeah, that interview's kind of old and prematurely manifesto-ish. I've
since then played with PD and CSound, made some interesting things happen
sonically, but not musically. Having to code everything out beforehand
with CSound doesn't leave a lot of room for improv. And yes, it does take
a lot of effort to debug code and whatnot, and then theres little room for
spontenaity and fun. It got to be rather frustrating. Anyway, failed
expirament.. I'm moving on.
There's an interview up on Modsquare.com now with the 8 Bit Construction
Set. Those guys are ubergeek, moreso than me, and they do their thing
well. Hats off to them.
The third-person deal was part of this "persona" thing I was working on,
hence the blue hair + bit of an attitude. I was just talking with some
friends of mine and one of them joked about the burgening "Chicago Persona
School," with Fischerspooner (who went to the Art Institute) being the
most notable. I was going to use "Quantazelle the persona" for the
Laptronica performance / competition, but Quantazelle the music project
doesn't neccessarily need it at this point. Laptronica is another
expirament trying to answer the question of How we can make laptop
performances more exciting for a larger audience? Answer: have teams of
laptop musicians compete to be the most entertaining, in a "professional
wrestling" manner. The previous events have been successful, and the
competing musicians were able to reach more people with their music than
they had done previously, as well as have fun, which is a welcome relief
from the terse academia that tends to permeate this genre. There's a
minisite here:
http://www.modsquare.com/laptronica
So... I've got a ton of live shows coming up in Chicago, we'll see what I
decide on for the performative aspect at each. I've been playing with
different software that allows me to create more musically-complex
compositions (complex in comparison to my own previous work, not in
comparison to other musicians) and allowed me to integrate more of my
earlier expirience with traditonal instruments. It's rather different than
where I thought I'd end up when I started... Oh well; such is art, I
suppose.
-Quantazelle
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