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Looking at Music
DNA #8
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Lina Brion/Detlef Diederichsen

80 pp.

with numerous colour illustrations

perfect bound softcover



Leipzig July, 2021
ISBN: 9783959054928
Edition Number: 1

Width: 15 cm
Length: 23 cm

Language(s): English

Editor
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Lina Brion, Detlef Diederichsen

Designer
Hannes Drißner, Malin Gewinner, Markus Dreßen

Design Concept
Olaf Nicolai, Hannes Drißner, Malin Gewinner

Contributor
Stefanie Alisch, Peter Kirn, Mari Matsutoya, Adam Parkinson, Terre Thaemlitz, TOPLAP

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance has evolved into a format in which the audience stares at people staring at screens. Looking at Music examines the role that visibility plays in the experience of music. How important is the live quality to the future of musical performance? Screenshots of ”algoraves“ or virtual reality stars like Hatsune Miku reinsert visual stimuli on a variety of levels, in kuduro the musical focus is on the dance expertise—meanwhile, other musicians have long since abandoned the idea of the stage-centred spectacle.

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