Re: Performance text, 123 Pleasant Street, BIOS conference, after equipment hassles

[Lucio Agra]

I found the text miserably great, one of the best things you ever did. Not only because it sustains itself as a poetic text but also it is one of the most accurate depictions of what can happen in a performance - when not maybe happen in the mind of the performer. Mainly when he/she deals with the"liminality" (Turner/Schechner) of the situation which can reach ridiculous extremes in the case of technological appliances (sometimes the ritual in traditional situations offer opportunities to run out of the embarrassing situation). I don't know if I make myself clear but I felt exactly the way you wrote in many of my performances (including one, recently, in 2005). And I learn that you have to take advantage of the situation, which you do really well;
I go on with Jim's words also
best
Lucio
BR

On 9/16/06, Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Just wanted to thank you for this and of course you're right. For me this
was one of the few times I really did mess up; we had no time to do a
sound check because everything was running miserably late so it was a
question of making do. Years ago I remember playing a concert at Town Hall
(NY) and our synthesizer gave out five minutes before; that was difficult.
You learn of course how to bypass things but sooner or later you run into
situations you just can't bypass...

- Alan

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