rjdj is a nifty little iphone app which creates 'music' out of incoming sound. there's a fascinating video clip on the developer site, an outtake from G4's 'attack of the show' in which the two hosts get visibly excited by the app's reaction to their audio input.
in a way, this excitement is more interesting to me than the app itself - i remember an Eno interview where he went off on a concept a collaborator of his called 'idiot glee' when asked to describe the state of mind that he considered most important to creating art...
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
a club website leads to musings about audience...
i was pointed at 'awdio' recently, and have been finding it a pretty interesting concept.
near as i can tell, it's an accumulator for live streams, specifically clubs which are strewn all over the planet. eventually it'll host things such as DJ [and i'd assume also key 'party people'] profiles.
although this site's pretty far removed from what i'd define as an interactive creative site, it's got a lot of elements which i believe will give it traction -
it references a global, persistent phenomenon which traditionally attracts audience.
it provides a sense of self and place within cyberspace.
it provides 'free music' with realtime validity that netradio doesn't seem to capture.
...not sure if i'll continue nattering about this sort of thing, as i think it's peripheral to the reasons i decided to start quietly blogging about this stuff, but i do think it's interesting.
btw, i'll offer something else: i'm active on a 'new and experimental music' list based out here on the left coast of america, and have been somewhat engaged in an interesting _opposing_ argument about immediacy and audience. what i find really interesting is the very self-oriented stance of many of the artists on this list. when asked about 'audience', they respond speaking about themselves. when the issue of 'audience' is forced, the response is dismissive - that 'audience' is some sort of occult thing that cannot be defined, or collected.
i feel that this touches on one of the core issues in social interactivity and art - that the demands on the artist tend to force one into a very egocentric model, else they cannot 'create'. once in that mode, the artist is sort of stuck - he or she is forced to stay there, essentially denying the outreach which would enable them to extend one friend into three audience members who in turn become friends, creating nine more audience members, etc.
admittedly, i'm speaking from an idealist perspective - the truth is that one friend does not automatically yield three people who come to live shows, or purchase tunes, or even listen. it's very difficult to force individual creative work on people who are saturated with the stuff - i'm that way myself: often, i'll find myself coming home and turning OFF music, REFUSING to watch videos, NOT reading. it's just too draining these days, what with the stress of making a living, etc.
at times like these, i find that it's better to just go out into the yard and look at the plants, or sit and enjoy the quiet.
this is a very rambling blog, and i didn't anticipate being led into this subject by referencing a global live-PA accumulator community [in fact, one of the banner buttons on awdio is a link to a local all-night club called the endup . i drove by there at about 0800 this morning and am listening to the feed as i type].
no conclusion to offer here, just musing about how this thing relates to peoples' interest, and how that interest might refract down to a globe full of practitioners creating beats in realtime, separated by timezone and geography, but united in practice...
yeah; dream on, right?
near as i can tell, it's an accumulator for live streams, specifically clubs which are strewn all over the planet. eventually it'll host things such as DJ [and i'd assume also key 'party people'] profiles.
although this site's pretty far removed from what i'd define as an interactive creative site, it's got a lot of elements which i believe will give it traction -
it references a global, persistent phenomenon which traditionally attracts audience.
it provides a sense of self and place within cyberspace.
it provides 'free music' with realtime validity that netradio doesn't seem to capture.
...not sure if i'll continue nattering about this sort of thing, as i think it's peripheral to the reasons i decided to start quietly blogging about this stuff, but i do think it's interesting.
btw, i'll offer something else: i'm active on a 'new and experimental music' list based out here on the left coast of america, and have been somewhat engaged in an interesting _opposing_ argument about immediacy and audience. what i find really interesting is the very self-oriented stance of many of the artists on this list. when asked about 'audience', they respond speaking about themselves. when the issue of 'audience' is forced, the response is dismissive - that 'audience' is some sort of occult thing that cannot be defined, or collected.
i feel that this touches on one of the core issues in social interactivity and art - that the demands on the artist tend to force one into a very egocentric model, else they cannot 'create'. once in that mode, the artist is sort of stuck - he or she is forced to stay there, essentially denying the outreach which would enable them to extend one friend into three audience members who in turn become friends, creating nine more audience members, etc.
admittedly, i'm speaking from an idealist perspective - the truth is that one friend does not automatically yield three people who come to live shows, or purchase tunes, or even listen. it's very difficult to force individual creative work on people who are saturated with the stuff - i'm that way myself: often, i'll find myself coming home and turning OFF music, REFUSING to watch videos, NOT reading. it's just too draining these days, what with the stress of making a living, etc.
at times like these, i find that it's better to just go out into the yard and look at the plants, or sit and enjoy the quiet.
this is a very rambling blog, and i didn't anticipate being led into this subject by referencing a global live-PA accumulator community [in fact, one of the banner buttons on awdio is a link to a local all-night club called the endup . i drove by there at about 0800 this morning and am listening to the feed as i type].
no conclusion to offer here, just musing about how this thing relates to peoples' interest, and how that interest might refract down to a globe full of practitioners creating beats in realtime, separated by timezone and geography, but united in practice...
yeah; dream on, right?
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