Hi Nick
thanks for the insight into what went on that night. I will have to dig up
that NIME paper because I am curious to read what more you have to say about
that performance.
Of course I based what I wrote in the paper on what I detected in the
audience in my vicinity. Maybe I was too far from the stage to get a good
feeling for how other people reacted, but the predominate feeling I got from
my position is as I describe in the paper. Of course every individual's
experience of a performance is coloured by their own predispositions and
values, so 2 people standing next to each other may have 2 subjectively
different experiences. (I did ask somebody at one point why they were
boo-ing so boisterously, and they said it was because you were loading in
fragments.)
But to be clear - my comments were not intended as a criticism of the
performance or the skills of the performers! One could hardly criticize the
two stars on stage. In the intro to the paper I'm simply trying to set the
context and background for what inspired me to concoct my particular flavour
of live coding. I am eternally grateful to both you and Ge for that
performance and for all the work you've done developing the live coding
concept.
Marcel
On 22/02/2008, Nick Collins <nc272_at_cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Hi Marcel,
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> your work is very interesting and I wish I could attend one of your public
> battles! Thanks for sharing the paper. Just to clarify, this isn't my
> recollection of the Barcelona contest:
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> their disapproval of Collins' loading of
> pre-programmed code fragments with boos and hisses
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> I spent the first ten minutes just coding a complex microtonal system
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> on the Babylonian square root algorithm. I then explored this with sound
> from around 10-15 minutes in; but all was from scratch.
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> after 15 mins, when Ge had dropped out to recompile ChucK, I had to switch
> to working with some other stuff just to cover (in retrospect I should
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> worked further on the Babylonian material, but panicked); but I did so
> within my live coding environment, and was live coding throughout, though
> less from scratch and more by modification.
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> It was Ge who ran preprogrammed presets in the first half of the
> competition. However, neither of us had anticipated the public competition
> aspect would be so dominant, and our preparations were very different to
> what turned out to be required. I make my full confession in the 2007 NIME
> paper. I typed what I should have typed had I prepared for battle, in my
> movie posted the other day.
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> I was the most disappointed by that gig of any I've been involved with,
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> a great learning experience under real-time constraints! I had been
> practising for weeks before, but not the right material, and had to adapt
> to the setting in a way that I wasn't prepared for. Note that I make no
> defence of the quality of that 2005 concert.
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> best
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