my shifts in style are quite intentional. i jump instruments, styles, and tempos to keep the shows flowing in ways that are unexpected and dynamic.
many components of the shows (sizes, positions, colors) are random and vary from performance to performance. this is, of course, lost on youtube.
i did two performances in san diego last week. it was very interesting to see what various people reacted to. some *really* liked my graphic shows and some *really* liked the abstracts. there was a lot of "that's my favorite show.. oh wait, now this is my favorite show" going on. i had a lot of fun guessing the audiences reaction and being consistently surprised. there was no impression of leaving the audience behind.
different strokes for different folks.
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laserist
Actually I like electronic music - and I understand listening & visualizing what I'm going to do with a piece. This one starts out well and fizzles (IMO), and you decided to switch from interpreting the music to acompaning the music - it's easy to see - the music marches on exactly the way it was and the imagery gets all wild. Now I'm not saying you can't make that work, but if you intend to take that step you might want to telegraph it by starting the imagery before the music, or adding your bits off center to the action to distinguish one thing from the other. Or think of something else to say the imagery isn't constrained by the music. The easiest thing to do is leave the audience behind...
suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
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(and mayhaps my spouse).
