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.
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