comment at bottom :)
At 11:26 PM 9/20/00 -0400, Chris Fahey wrote:
quoted 44 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.