>
> Is there a problem when someone presses a small key and a huge sound
> comes out? I hope some correlation can be seen between for example
> frantic typing and frantic results, that would seem enough to me. But
> really I think it's up to an audience to get what they want out of a
> performance, they're paying for it so they should have some freedom.
The trouble I have with what you're saying is that it's too rational. And it
is not
the artist's job to be rational.
I understand that the requirement to be silent and fully attentive in a
> concert hall is only recent (c.f. Christopher Small - Musicking).
I understand that the idea of art as a profession is quite new too :)
I see TOPLAP as a looser group of people, who don't make their music in
> particular or prescribed ways (manifestos should not be taken too
> seriously), but have similarities in some part of their method.
> I think we should start by looking for similarities between activities,
> before we look for differences. Otherwise we will fall into making
> false claims for novelty, miss the opportunity to draw on
> cross-disciplinary knowledge, and fail to understand the more
> novel/interesting aspects of the activities.
I don't think we should look for similarities at all. I think we should
create
differences and be comfortable with them - with arguments, instead of meek
camaraderie and patpatpat/laplaplap.
That whole smugness about what one artist is doing causes
the atrophy of any artform. We should really be kicking and shouting
and cracking bad jokes here if TopLap is to get anywhere.
Dig what I'm saying?
Loose is good.
cheers
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