didn't fsol phone in a gig...ISDN?
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quoted 5 lines From: Alex Reynolds <reynolda@sas.upenn.edu>
>From: Alex Reynolds <reynolda@sas.upenn.edu>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] the future of "wife-beating"
>Date: Wed, Sep 13, 2000, 1:21 PM
>quoted 37 lines why all the fuss about live performances and mouse clicking and so forth?
> why all the fuss about live performances and mouse clicking and so forth?
>
> what we're really trying to talk about is the celebrity factor.
>
> the musician can't simply phone in a show, he has to stand there and
> be a Face to the audience, to lend the show some credibility.
>
> what would truly break creative barriers is for an electronic
> musician to invent a piece of software that emulates the artist's
> live manueverings, be it scratching, knob twiddling or mouse clicking
> -- ai as applied to sound technology -- set it up, press play, and
> walk off stage... start talking to audience members while the machine
> goes at it.
>
> a different show every time, but no need for the artist to validate
> the performance with his presence or personality. or at least the
> tired parameters of image wouldn't prop up or overexagerrate the
> greatness of a piece...
>
> ask yourself, what would aphex twin be without the mythology? would
> he still be considered an eccentric genius, without the press there
> to feed the image and the fanbase to consume it?
>
> -a.
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