From: skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net>
That's such an awkward semantic to throw out there that it begs a re-think.
The instruments have changed enough that being able to play means something different than it used to, although it really should boil down to the same thing -- being able to play means being able to project your ideas on you instrument, and having enough tecvhnique to do it cleanly and consistently.
Yeah I was thinking of Sachiko M and John Wall when I wrote that stuff before. How can one say that Sachiko M has great technique and is a "fine" player of the sine wave generator? Or how do you account for the assemblages of Wall when he puts together snippets of Ryoji Ikeda and John Zorn into a new composition. The phrase "playing well" or "having technique" becomes a bit problematic in these areas. You end up saying something like "boy, that Sachiko M sure knows how to play that sine wave generator well." Somehow, misses the point. You need a new vocabulary. In Wall's case, you talk about the assemblage. In the case of Sachiko, you talk about her sensibility. Or some such vocabulary. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx