With the greatest respect this sounds like something off Tomorrows
World in the 1970's :)
Give me a good DJ, a chunk of darkness and perhaps a strobe, that's
enough for me.
All this suggests is that music and djing is some kind of community
democracy, I shudder at the very thought of that, if that's what you
want - get some quarters and a jukebox.
m
On 2 Nov 2007, at 01:49, still want to wrote:
well, you either have a person being the control mechanism (DJ)
who can
observe the room, take in emotional levels, combine them with her/
his own,
and spit back out something unexpected (like stopping the music
and telling
a story to the audience that has some relevance to what's going on)
or
you have a machine take in parameters, numbers, equations, and mix
them
with something that has been programmed into it (and a slower
learning
curve) and then spitting it back out hopefully matching where an
audience
wants to go
I was very inspired by sci -fi writer Paul J. McAuley who described
a future
rave where multiple VJ/DJ people controlled extensive banks of bio
feedback
sensors .. in this system everyone in the audience provides input and
everyone is able to filter and feedback the input sources onto the
system
which is an interconnected series of sound systems, holographic
projectors,
lasers and lights.
There is no specific centre to the situation .. it is a sprawling
massive of vibe
which he calls "the constant Wave".
It was one of the more interesting future account of a rave that I
had ever read.
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue33/books.html
