Re: [-empyre-] live performance vs. studio/other

["tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@rhizome.org>]

>    A
> musician?s action causes a reaction in the audience, so when there are a
> lot of sounds and noise coming from the stage but very little movement (a
> mouse click there, a hand on the chin), the audience has to fill in the
> gaps with their imagination.  In this way the crowd performs as well.  It
> is a form of imitation: if the performer is very quiet and still, then the
> audience will mimic the performer?s stillness."

Worth mentioning, not as debate but to expand the ways in which we can
understand movement and the performer/ audience relation:

What of trance DJs who pump out the cheeziest of beats, barely performing
the motions of Djing, who entertain thousands of crazed, jumping kids with
their calm actions of a lazy jukebox?

[I only mention as it seems other methods than mimesis exist in the
generally electronic, speaker-world realm; here, in fact, we have
oppositional reactions.].

>A friend shared with
> me the incredible imagistic journey she took during one of my performances,
> including wild animals and biomorphic architecture; a fantastical dream
> logic far-removed from what I would have thought my music suggested.

Some of my most intense dreams have occurred falling asleep before after
late-night / early-morning DJ sets in warehouses, or passing out in Chill
Out rooms in the early '90s. Lucid dreaming. Quite the experience when
volumes reach levels achieved by the likes of Psychick TV as well -- then it
happens while you are awake. I had a similar reaction to Kim Cascone's _Dust
Theories_.



best, tV