The 'state' of trance music today
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- KVRAF
- 8705 posts since 24 May, 2002 from Tutukaka, New Zealand
I used to go to Shelleys in Stoke on the odd occasion and they had an irritating MC that told me constantly when to put my hands in the air. Give a twat a mic ...as they say.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111294 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
thats old school granddad!kritikon wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 8:20 pm I used to go to Shelleys in Stoke on the odd occasion and they had an irritating MC that told me constantly when to put my hands in the air. Give a twat a mic ...as they say.
now the dj mimes it and we follow
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- KVRist
- 275 posts since 26 Mar, 2017
Most movements ever seem to have the same problem - with time, the probability of the messengers becoming more looked-at than the message approaches 1. Something in human nature likes having a humanlike character to relate to.
In the big picture, if folks are getting fun out of looking at the DJ, why not. In some ways it's not that different from looking at a pop act, or sitting and listening to an orchestra. From the perspective of being in the audience, all of those are equally disconnected; one is hearing music and seeing movements, but having no effect on it.
Playing a pre-mixed set off a USB stick while tweaking knobs of a muted channel could be seen as performance art taken to a [David] Lynchian extreme. Over the years I've started to suspect that audiences more-or-less get it, and are simply enjoying the entertainment for what it is: spending a few hours in front of a good PA blasting out ribcage-shaking bass, and perhaps attempting to set up a chain of events that ends up in physical interactions after the show. Seems quite human, can't really blame the folks if that's all they came for
In the big picture, if folks are getting fun out of looking at the DJ, why not. In some ways it's not that different from looking at a pop act, or sitting and listening to an orchestra. From the perspective of being in the audience, all of those are equally disconnected; one is hearing music and seeing movements, but having no effect on it.
Playing a pre-mixed set off a USB stick while tweaking knobs of a muted channel could be seen as performance art taken to a [David] Lynchian extreme. Over the years I've started to suspect that audiences more-or-less get it, and are simply enjoying the entertainment for what it is: spending a few hours in front of a good PA blasting out ribcage-shaking bass, and perhaps attempting to set up a chain of events that ends up in physical interactions after the show. Seems quite human, can't really blame the folks if that's all they came for
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- KVRAF
- 8705 posts since 24 May, 2002 from Tutukaka, New Zealand
Or...it could be seen more like a ventriloquist on the radio. Performance art taken to F'in pointless.N__K wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 12:54 am
Playing a pre-mixed set off a USB stick while tweaking knobs of a muted channel could be seen as performance art taken to a [David] Lynchian extreme. Over the years I've started to suspect that audiences more-or-less get it, and are simply enjoying the entertainment for what it is: spending a few hours in front of a good PA blasting out ribcage-shaking bass, and perhaps attempting to set up a chain of events that ends up in physical interactions after the show. Seems quite human, can't really blame the folks if that's all they came for
Audiences might possibly get it. Really not convinced of that.
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- KVRAF
- 8705 posts since 24 May, 2002 from Tutukaka, New Zealand
I can still wave my dayglo walking stick in the air like any young'un.vurt wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 8:25 pmthats old school granddad!kritikon wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 8:20 pm I used to go to Shelleys in Stoke on the odd occasion and they had an irritating MC that told me constantly when to put my hands in the air. Give a twat a mic ...as they say.
now the dj mimes it and we follow
