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new potential will mark the beginning of a shift in our operational
paradigm, not to abandon live realtime events, but to concentrate on
circulating the creative lifeblood of our electronic community from
the pumping heart of the live event to the extended limbs of the larger
invested social organism through Cable TV and the Internet (through
both live webcasts @DCTV.org and the adaptation of some of our massive
unitygain archive recordings @unitygain.org). To date, we are proud
of what we have done so far yet recognize the need to "move on"
in many respects.
It is in this context we approach our 2 nite spring celebration capping
off the musical week of chashama's Oasis Festival May 16 &17:
Day
1 will feature many of the video artists (vidnauts) with
whom we have worked over the years... the main difference being that
on this occasion they will be running the show themselves not harnessed
to visual interpretation of the music as has usually been the case...
and just for fun we have also invited some our favorite imagistically
oriented audio artist friends to accompany them for a second go round.
Day
2 will represent a return to roots of a sort...
In recent years two major always present tendencies in electronic music
have resurfaced in a new focus along the lines of a provocative hypothetical
divide in the post techno popular electronic realm. Each of these tendencies
illustrates a fundamentally different approach to how sound is gathered
or generated, organized , processed, and presented (performed). The
recently more vaunted (in artistic circles) tendency is associated with
the rapid proliferation of the powerbook as the instrument of choice
and is usually characterized by a rhythmic openness and fascination
with random occurrence and feedback processes. While this area has traditionally
been the domain of the historical avant gard it is currently enjoying
a broader popularity among a larger group of new proponents than in
any other period of it's history. (At this point it has all but replaced
"alternative rock" in journalistic circles.)
the hausofouch
thinks this is great!
The other
tendency retains it's strongest affinities with the traditions of "body
music" and celebrates strongly measured (perhaps more linear) rhythmic
figure (however hectic or fragmented) and a biological sense of repetition
that feels at home on the dancefloor. Those who choose to continue to
work in this mode are sometimes these days referred to as "trackers"
, a reference to the tradition of building compositions out of multiple
discrete interlacing rhythmic "lines" or "tracks",
a method originally derived from the way "live" band oriented
music was constructed and recorded in earlier periods (particularly
60's -70's R&B) and adapted to computers in the late 70's.
the hausofouch
thinks this is great too! ....to the extent that unitygain events have
always tried to embrace and integrate both tendencies under one roof,
sometimes even on the same nite. We believe that it is the cross talk
between these tendencies that provides the most fertile ground for hybrid
invention on today's media plateau... (indeed it seems that as soon
as we try to identify a tendency, thousands of exceptions run down the
aisle waving their arms screaming...)
However
since this particular evening, May17th, is a closing party of sorts
(the next full on unitgain event won't take place till the fall '02
or later) and since this is a friday nite and we wouldn't even mind
if people felt like dancing.... we're giving this one entirely over
to the "trackers".... and a pretty kicking lineup there of
to boot. Hope you'll join us...
thanks
and cheers,
for the
hausofouch nyc
david
linton 4/20/02
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