Startmaking sense: Live audio-visual media performance
2010; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 6; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1386/padm.6.2.193_1
ISSN2040-0934
Autores Tópico(s)Digital Games and Media
ResumoABSTRACTWhile being shown footage recently of a live audio-visual performance of mine — an abstract visualization of a piece of electro-acoustic music — a colleague asked me the fateful question, ‘Yes, but what is it about?’ He was asking, essentially, ‘What does it mean that these images and sounds are occurring before me, what is the status of this audio-visual material, and what kind of spectator am I, how can I read this, how can I make sense of this?’ Despite a complex and interrelated set of artistic traditions and technological lineages, there is still little scholarship on the current state of live audiovisual production and performance. Writings on ‘VJ’ culture are beginning to appear in various forums, and the number of festivals dedicated to this art form is steadily increasing, yet live media performance remains under-theorized, in part because it sits eternally in between traditional modes of production and performance and there is conjecture as to how to understand it, and in part, perhaps, ...
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