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Re: Re: LOOPING a DRY CLEANING SHOP



It's just the normal way of making a music video; you record the music
in a studio and then you play back the mix and act in front of the
camera. Shouldn't be confused with documentary live shooting.

Per




On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Sylvain Poitras
<sylvain.trombone@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know, it seems we're imposing our aesthetic imperative on
> Diego.  He's doing his own thing (and quite well).  I don't think he
> ever claimed these videos were live recordings, and all the editing
> cuts should make that obvious in any case.  What I take from those
> videos is a context for the sounds he creates.  Whereas you view it as
> a recorded performance, instead he's showing us how he made his sounds
> and where they're from...  this is contrary to the acousmatic's
> tradition of obscuring reference to the sound source.  I appreciate
> that... it makes me want to hit things and make my own instruments.
>
> My favorite of his videos is the basso forte:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhp6P9Ygsoc
>
> I think it's a mix of recorded performance and editing magic.
> Regardless, it's genius in my book.
> Sylvain
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>> I feel you,  Matt.
>>
>> There's something a tiny bit dishonest about it.......and yet,  I like 
>> the
>> concept.
>>
>> Rick Walker
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Matt Davignon wrote:
>>
>> There was something that bothered me about these clips, including 
>> "musician
>> plays a tree" (also featuring Diego) and "music for one apartment and 
>> six
>> drummers". I gradually figured out that it's not the musicians 
>> themselves. I
>> see Diego as taking the torch from  Matmos and running with it. He is 
>> doing
>> a lot of creative stuff.
>>
>> The thing that bugs me is the video treatment and promotion. He's not 
>> really
>> playing a dry cleaning shop as an instrument - he's making lots of tiny
>> recordings, then arranging them on the computer to make music. The video
>> treatment suggests that he's playing all the "instruments" from start to
>> finish live.
>>
>> The "music for one apartment and six drummers" video
>> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPVbc8LgP4) specifically lies to you - 
>> it
>> doesn't even show the computer! Somehow, the drummers are able to 
>> amplify
>> the sounds of perfume bottles, etc without microphones. Also, the 
>> sounds of
>> books being dropped on the floor sound like handclaps, and sound 
>> exactly the
>> same each time.
>>
>> So yeah, it puts the sensationalism above the music, and that bugs me.
>>
>
>