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quoted 2 lines providing live soundtracks to famous (or not so famous)

> providing live soundtracks to famous (or not so famous) > movies has been around a long time.

Yes, it's been around since before most of our grandparents were born. Live music was common at many silent movie presentations in the teens and twenties, and it's great that people still do it. In many cases the music makes classic silent films more accessible to the modern audience, and in some cases the films make wankerous or boring musicians more exciting. Given the lack of visual stimulation at most electronic music shows (read: boring, lifeless, personalityless performers), and given the lack of dancability at most IDM-ish shows, I personally think that accompanying films, old ones and new, is an idea whose time has come -- back! I've also seen/heard some good stuff with music accompanying live dancers (AFX's dancing bears included). An aquaintance of mine did a performance at PS1 last year where he played guitar and sang (and next to him, working undercover, DJ Neil Strauss from the NYTimes stared at a pair of turntables) to accompany an original (i.e., made just for the performance) short film. Personally, I wasn't into the music much (or the misogynist film), but the fucking cool part was that the characters in the film would occasionally move their lips to speak *in perfect sync* with the singer - in other words, he had timed his performance to sync up with the film almost perfectly. I loved the genuinely multidisciplinary collaboration! I'd love to see more of this, particularly from IDM artists and particularly those who are inclined to vocal accompanyment. - Cf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org