quoted 2 lines Amen to that. There's going to have to be a paradigm shift> Amen to that. There's going to have to be a paradigm shift
> in the way that live IDM shows are performed.
Word.
As far as I'm concerned, if the artist cannot demonstrate real-time
virtuosic skill, if they don't have an interesting stage show (I'm not
talking lasers), or if they don't have some kind of charismatic, hypnotic
stage personality, then there's no point in going to see them live on stage
(you know, the rawk format) at all. It's like going to see a composer write
music on paper or watching someone paint.
It's even a bit degrading sometimes to go see an artist I like, only to see
them spin records or move a mouse around. I feel like a rawk hero worshipper
of the lowest kind. Of course, many listmembers would likely pay to be in
the same room as Aphex Twin even if he did not perform at all. I won't.
EXCEPTION 1: Seeing *underground* artists do experimental live shows whose
format violates my above rules is okay -- since usually I'm not familiar
with their work, and live shows can help give me an idea of what the artist
is all about, while also supporting the scene and their artistic
development. The formality of the 'concert' format is great for encouraging
discourse about the music itself, which is not likely if the music was
played as background music.
EXCEPTION 2: Banging dance events where the artist's presence is irrelevant
to the fact that the "scene" and sound system are so thrilling that
attention to a stage or an artist is pointless.
-Cf
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