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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Alex Reynolds
SAS Computing / Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
V +1 215 573.2818 / F +1 215 898.8780
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~reynolda/
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