[PD] Pd performance at TED

[Marco Donnarumma]

Unfortunately not Ingo. Would love to.
I play regularly electroacoustic free improv.
So perphaps we are talking a different language?

Could you elaborate your answer?

If I'm missing something about the innovation of that work I'd be glad to
learn :)

Thanks,
M




On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Ingo <ingo at miamiwave.com> wrote:

> Sorry Marco,
>
> but I can see that you have never played jazz!
>
> Ingo
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: Marco Donnarumma [mailto:devel at thesaddj.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 20. Juni 2011 13:43
> An: Ingo
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED
>
> Ingo,
> thanks for your explanation, I think to understand how he's playing.
>
>
> The movement looks to me secondary - it's more like a dance movement and
> not
> too much music control.
>
> This might be a very personal take, but if movement is secondary in
> gestural
> control, why one uses gestural control at all?
> I believe that effective and ancillary gestures are what reinforce our
> perception of an instrument as a musical tool, rather than a mere "device".
> Imho many gestural controllers would benefit of a better focus on this
> aspect.
>
> How would you play such melodic lines (like those jazz licks) - in time -
> simply with gestural control?
>
> Setting an array of preset chords, triggering them with multiple switches,
> deploying a timeline which holds the trigger until the onset of the next
> beat or quarter, etc...
> I guess the list here could come up with many other methods.
> I'm not saying that's trivial, I only think that it's not the "future" as
> it
> is presented in the video.
>
> How would you improvise on scales, pattern or
> harmonic structures? After all he's a jazz player calling his music "beat
> jazz".
>
> What do you call improvisation in this case?
> How much is he improvising?
> I can imagine he's "improvising" with the melodic lines, but playing
> samples
> and presets chords doesn't match my own definition of improvisation.
>
> cheers,
> M
>
>
>
>
>
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Marco Donnarumma
Independent New Media and Sonic Arts Professional, Performer, Instructor
ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
The University of Edinburgh, UK
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