Hoeksteenextras presents a Live Broadcast 06/28/08 for Amsterdam TV De Hoeksteen /moderator: Raul Marroquin
Título / Title: ´´For Michael Waisvisz - domeyer366´´
Performer / Compositor: Jaime E Oliver LR
Lugar: Realidad Visual - Barranco, Perú - 2008
Production: Mauricio Delfin / Realidad Visual / www.realidadvisual.org
Curator: Carlos Cuellar
Lima, Peru
Performance sonoro con el tambor silencioso o Silent Drum Controller, controlador basado en video desarrollado por Jaime Oliver y Matthew Jenkins en CRCA - UCSD
Sound Performance with the Silent Drum Controller, a video-based controller developed by Jaime Oliver and Matthew Jenkins at CRCA - UCSD
| Dedicated to Michel Waisvisz (1949-june2008)
`` I see the hand as a part of the brain, not as a lower instrument of the brain. Of course, you can see a hand as a transmitter and sensor, but in the consciousness of the performance, the hand is the brain. You can't say that its precision is surpassed or even equaled by computers because we simply don't know what we control in detail when we play an instrument. Every instrumentalist can tell you that in the instrumental learning process, there are hours of meticulous motoric memorization of timing and intonation, but the thing called music finally comes out as something on top of that. I don't think this notion is something metaphysical or a romantic vagueness. I think that the slight aberrations from the score - sometimes considered errors - contain crucial micro-information that gives music its life. I cannot tell you exactly how that information needs to be categorized, … but I know it's there, and I also know that when you build an instrument, it must be sensitive enough to capture and transfer these aberrations.’’
Michel Waisvisz, 1990
The Hand in the Web: An Interview with Michel Waisvisz - Volker Krefeld; Michel Waisvisz Computer Music Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, New Performance Interfaces 2. (Summer, 1990), pp.28-33. |
