[spectre] re : art consuming posture

[404 at n3krozoft.com]

>immediate art consuming posture

art rejects consumption, while entertainment encourages it

>by spoiled swiss people

do you really believe nationality matters in this case?





>de 11/10/04 17:04, 404%n3krozoft.com ý 404%n3krozoft.com het geskriibet :
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>>  the scenery: a beautiful park on the border of a lake. it's a warm
>>  summernight. early september. in the middle of 
>>the park, a huge stage has been
>>  built up, covered with electronic gear. serious looking young men stand in
>>  front of their laptops, executing cryptic routines. above their heads, two
>>  giant screens display two (similar) video projections - loops of blurred,
>>  nocturnal cityscapes at low framerate. in 
>>front of the stage, in the field, a
>>  crowd of 20-30 people are listening to the sounds emmited - a gentle mixture
>>  of chill-out grooves, techstep and breakbeat makes the air vibrate.
>>
>>  some new visitors just arrived:
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>>  he: what's going on here? in the festival 
>>program is written that there should
>>  be a "systËme d'interception et unitÈ de traitement sonore et visuel" that
>>  "maps the electromagnetic spectrum, treats and transforms the signals to
>>  reforward them in the ether". did you see such 
>>a sound installation somewhere?
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>>  she: no, there's just this stage, i don't know, maybe it's this....
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>>  he: it cannot be this - from what i know it should have something to do with
>>  satellite transmissions... here it's written: "les spectres HF, VHF, UHF,
>>  bande-L, bande-C et bande-Ku sont analysÈs et traitÈs"!
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>>  she: well, when i was here this afternoon it 
>>sounded worse, they were playing
>>  french freetechno.
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>>  [suddenly a local dj appears]
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>>  local dj: hi, how are you doing! it's pretty cool, isn't it?
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>>  he: yeah, super cool - but i was expecting something like live data
>>  processing, not just drum'n'bass...
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>>  local dj: but that's what they're doing! 
>>everything is treated in realtime - i
>>  even heard at some moment cellphone 
>>conversations in french! can you see there
>>  on the right corner on the stage? there's a radar antenna turning.
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>>  she: well, excuse me, we didn't hear this, we're only here since 30 minutes.
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>>  local dj: come on, you cannot expect them to transmit just pure radio
>>  frequencies during twelve hours!
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>>  he: why not?
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>>  local dj [getting confused]: well, ok, they could do it ...  but as a matter
>>  of fact, they made a decision, and they've chosen to do it this way, and you
>>  should respect that. i think it would be 
>>definitely too boring for the people.
>>  but you can disagree of course.
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>>  they look at each other. the talk is over - further discussion seems
>>  impossible. on the stage, the antenna keeps 
>>turning. the beat keeps pulsating.
>>  it's a warm midsummernight.
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