[NewMusic] dialog etc..

[J. Segel]

> It's great that you, and so many other musicians,  want to open up a 
> dialogue with the audience. It's a real uphill
> battle, but one worth getting into.
> 
> T


in re: this
i had a really funny experience about two weeks ago playing at a new venue in
447 25th st, essenially an artist's space that she had opened for some shows
that anne hege was curating. so the audience were, uh.. older gallery goers?
mostly, not entirely. but a guy played jazz-ish guitar solo on 7 string before
me, then i played two computers, electric guitar and violin, a mic on some
glasses with teeth and rocks in them (my normal stuff, in other words. though i
could be really quiet in the space which was cool.) 
anyway, the audience listened intently to each piece, but in between they
erupted in questions! so at least a quarter of the concert time was q&a. it was
pretty cool actually, each section informed what i did next. for example, some
people asked how i did what i did, then after explaining a bit about sample
manipulation and granular synthesis, the next questions were about the semantic
ramifications, i.e., how little of a phrase or note can you use while still
retaining its information. then sets of questions about what choices i allow
the computers to make. 
i uploaded it to archive.org wihtout the q&a in between, maybe that was a
mistake...
http://www.archive.org/details/jsegel2007-07-12


MAGNETIC --- Jonathan Segel 
magsatellite-yahoo(.)com <---> jsegel-magneticmotorworks(.)com
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