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At 8:59 PM -0800 1/13/03, Rick Walker/Loop.pooL wrote: >Much is often said on this list about the technology not getting >in the way of the music............or making the technology 'transparent'. > >I'd like to offer a different perspective: > >As loopers, frequently however, our technology is NOT transparent. Technological transparency is fine and sometimes preferable, but sometimes the art is ABOUT the technology and that's fine too. I've done a lot of visual theater work in which the audiovisual systems and stage mechanics were out in plain view and were part of the scenography and even of the content of the piece. I've seen (and been influenced by) a lot of theater that similarly embraced the technology for its theatricality (some examples: Soon3, Nightletter Theater, The Wooster Group). There are similar examples in ostensibly musical performance (though I'd probably maintain that the focus on the hardware is essentially theatrical). Turntablism is quite a good example. So is the work of Harry Partch, where the corporeality of the performance and the look of the stage were both determined by the physical nature and presence of the instruments. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com