Hang

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

On 22/11/10 19:18, K9 Kai Niggemann wrote:
> Controlling what and where people play it is a classic case of what buddhists
> call "attachment" and work hard to get rid off.

Their philosophy, ironically, appears to be an attempt to break the common 
attachments of musicians to known roles of musical performance. FWIW, the 
concepts they describe would have great value for me, as a way of thinking about 
music differently, and which would greatly enrich the way I make music under 
other circumstances. In fact, their idea might be considered a transformation of 
Cage's projection of music as an experience created by the individual - in this 
case the performer is the listener, rather than in Cage's case, there was 
(nearly?) always a distinction between performer and audience. I think the 
democratisation of technology makes this distinction somehow feudal and 
outdated; the Hang being a reflection of the unity of performer and audience, 
which only works if the person playing is totally immersed in the experience of 
making sound.

Dogma, OTOH, is always a bit of an odd fish ;)

Tony (HB)