Using Contemporary Technology in Live Performance

The Dilemma of the Performer

Bibliographic Data

ID5304751
AuthorsW Andrew Schlo, W Andrew Schloss (corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume32
Issue3
Pages239-242
Publication date2003-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of New Music Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0929-8215 • E-ISSN: 1744-5027
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1076/jnmr.32.3.239.16866
OpenAlexW2034740282
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The use of computers in live performance has resulted in a situation in which cause-and-effect has effectively disappeared, for the first time since music began. Once we started to use computers in live performance – to interpret gestures and generate sound as a result – the age-old relationship between gesture and result became so blurred as to be often imperceptible. In historical terms, this problem is extremely recent, involving only the last few decades of musical practice preceded by at least thirty thousand years of music-making by conventional (acoustic) means. The aim of this paper is to show how this affects contemporary performance and the relationship between the performer and the audience

Aesthetics · Art · Contemporary classical music · Dilemma · Epistemology · Gesture · Musical · Performance Practice · Performing arts · Visual arts · Computer Science · Music and Audio Processing · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Artificial Intelligence

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