I really liked Pamela Z’s work. Interesting abstract implication of composition, performance and scoring.
Baggage Allowance
This performance was part of a multi-media exhibition including a website which has now lost functionality with Web 2.0 due to flash becoming extinct
I’ve seen this kind of technology before famously used by Imogen Heap. A lot of technology seems to go down this road of gesturing as we perhaps grow more and more frustrated with user interface, but also because gesturing is part of the nature of musical performance, especially vocal performance. Even the simple introduction of the ‘swipe’ on the iPhone and how that has effected technology since. I think somebody made a joke about Minority Report during this lecture which was amusing but also interesting.
Turns inattentiveness into a compositional choice. Playing with how phones trigger a lack of attention, subjugating the performers to inattentiveness by sending musical queues to their phones during the performance. A good moment is where all the players start echoing the motif of a text tone whilst it is going on, I have a problem sometimes with work that I deem to be ‘on the nose’. Whilst I really like the idea of this piece, the slapstick nature of some of the events within the composition I find go a bit further than I personally would, but whilst that is the case there is a lot of very interesting concepts and poignant moments to this piece.