The concert! :-)

[Lewis Bupp]

ISn't it nice that people with credentials run everything and people
without credentials get swept under the rug, even though most of the w/o's
have 90% of the knowledge. It seems that is the way it goes here as well. 
Too bad, as so much talent never seems to get heard. Anybody wanna help
change that? email me.

Lew Bupp II
Audio/Video Technician
York College of Pa.
York, Pa. 17403
717-815-1395
717-852-8543

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, BJ wrote:

> This may be spam to some of you but i dont care, im going to mail it
> anyway.
> 
> This very last weekend i was at the Stockholm international 
> electronic music festival.
> 
> As usually the concerts is a mix of live performance and tape music.
> Most of the times it is tape music and that's why it can be some boring
> in the long run.
> 
> Now, there are some nice things and some bad things 
> about electronic music festivals held in Sweden.
> 
> The bad things is that this kind of people that are arranging the 
> festivals are in many ways arranging them for the same minded kind
> of people.That means that you as a ordinary homosapiens with your own 
> electronic music studio are not invited to play at those concerts.
> 
> It wont get you to play even if you have had your studio for 1 zillion
> years!
> 
> No, you have to ha a reputationable background so to speak,that means
> playing contrabass since the age of 7, studying in a university
> for 10 years, playing for a professor in the age of 80,
> attending at strange seminars every week,talking about the relevance of
> the sonic sound when an egg are dropped to the flor,,,,etc etc etc.
> This is somehow the academia play ground...........Or not?
> 
> Now, the nice things are the possibility for any one the globe
> to attend to IACM and win it and be brodcasted in some nationally TV and
> radio
> stations. This year some dude from Belgium won the contest.
> You do win some money to and you gain some of the reputation i 
> mentioned above.
> So go on, attend now people!
> 
> And the other nice thing that may happen is some strange 
> live performances may appear.
> 
> This weekend at Sunday it was a nice concert, there was a live concert
> over
> satellite and internet at the same time at three different places!
> 
> The places involved was Darmstadt with four persons playing live,
> Karlsruhe with three persons playing live and Stockholm with three
> persons performing live.
> 
> Each place had it own big video screen 10 by 10 meters divided by tree 
> sections so the public could see and hear what was going on at the other
> two places!
> Each performer had their own video monitor with some sync 
> and performance related information.
> It was quite odd to know that the physical present 
> audience was divided by two other places by 1000km away!!Darmstadt and
> Karlsruhe.
> 
> So this concert was a sort of a cyber concert with the satellite
> connection as the centre
> pole of the event.
> 
> Any one who was on the net this weekend could attend the concert and
> play along
> with the live performance and it could be seen and heard by uss in the
> audience.
> 
> And people did, it was quite amazing to se this happen and i
> guess it all was synched by showing some time frame clock info at 
> the performancers video monitor? 
> Nevertheless to me ears it was synched.
> 
> This concert was broadcasted via radio and TV in Sweden and Germany.
> Perhaps some of you did hear or saw the concert?
> 
> The people attending to the concert via internet was displayed on a
> world map
> by another video screen in Karlsruhe.As son as some one triggered the
> the key or whatever triggered by the net, a dot or a part of the country
> would
> turn white from where the origin was, and a sound was played.
> 
> Eumsat and Deutsche Telekom AG stand for the satellite connection.
> They used some whether satellites for this event.
> 
> A very interesting concert i might say.
> 
> My question is ,have this type of concert taken place 
> before or was this the very first one?
> 
> I do know that Farlight CMI vas involved in the 80's with a 
> satellite connection thing where two CMI III was connected together
> and played simultaneously, but as far as i know that was not a real
> concert!
> 
> 
> By the way i saw a CMI I at a music shop, 
> how uggly it looked, 8 inch diskdrives?
> But it had a nice light pen.
> Is anyone using a CMI I or II today?
> 
> BJ [in the land of odd concerts]
>