quoted 13 lines Maybe, but if that's the case, the man just shouldn't play live and> Maybe, but if that's the case, the man just shouldn't play live and
> thereby go all out. If anything, a live setting makes it VERY hard to
> "deny and/or demythologize" authorship. There is the
> performer and there
> is the audience. Though some have tried to blur these lines in the
> avant-garde arena, Herr Popp very much stood on a stage and played in
> front of everyone in a most standard wat. Which, if he's going to be
> pedantic about it, is somewhat contradictory to what you're
> suggesting.
> And if the post-performance behaviour was a way of
> overcompensating for
> not indulging this philosophy during the performance himself,
> then he's even more of a prat in my books. :)
He "shouldn't play live" just to be consistent with a philosophy he aspires
to? Is it hypocritical to hate your job and still go to work every day
because you need the money?
I'm sure touring helps Mr. Popp pay his bills. He doesn't have to like it
and he doesn't have to talk to anybody, but he probably has some financial
or contractual need to tour. He wishes he didn't have to tour and get
pestered by us ugly IDM fans hounding him with our fan bullshit. Sounds like
he hates the myth of the artist/god and would rather avoid all of that
stuff. It's not hypocritical to want to do something that your job doesn't
let you do.
(I seem to spend a lot of time on this list defending adults for doing their
jobs and not being "pure artists". It's as if nobody understands how artists
are working people too.)
Besides, most IDM artists *should* sulk offstage and hide themselves in
shame for the fake-ass near-lipsynching inert non-performances most of them
give on stage anyway. I think most studio-based musicians (which 95% of IDM
is) dread being on stage and feel like hypocites when then step into a
spotlight to simply turn on and off tracks in cubase.
Maybe Mr. Popp has a kind of refined, introspective sense of shame that even
most electronic acts don't have. When he breezes by someone as if they
weren't there, maybe he's trying to tell them "You just saw me embarass
myself by pretending to be a live musician. I'm ashamed to have to do this
to get your money, so please don't embarass both of us further by commenting
on my 'performance"."
How's that? There are lots of reasons why he doesn't have to be nice to us.
;)
- Cf
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