Abstract
The use of the laptop in performance causes various negative responses from the audience, who feel a loss of spectacle and performativity in the action. This occurs as a result of the lack of gesture and visual cues from the performer and the loss of focus from the audience, who have no visual object to ground their aural experience. A shift in focus from an understanding of the visual spectacle in performance to that of aural performativity is needed. Once this is understood, the audience can approach the performance with a shifted focus and come to new understandings of the aural object and contemporary digital audio.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Contemporary Music Review |
Publication status | Published - 2003 |
Keywords
- laptop computers
- sound
- recording and reproducing
- digital techniques
- performances
- audiences