Re: What is oudeis?

santiago pereson (jaco@overnet.com.ar)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 09:41:51 -0300

At 08:28 -0800 18/12/97, L.H. Grant wrote:
>>>*Choros.
>>
>>any doubts? i'm all set... when's the performance? <g>
>
>Santiago, I think your compositions are great! But, for over twenty years,
>Television audiences have been given clickers to make important decisions
>such as should Debbie pick bachelor number 1, 2, or 3, etc., etc. In the
>last ten years some Hollywood movies and cinemas have allowed audiences to
>choose from a variety of endings by the use of clickers (the movie CLUE,
>for instance). While the music is great, this idea of how the choros is
>supposed to be selected by the audience is not new to the world of culture
>and really doesn't add much conceptionually.
(...)

i think it's the only part of the project that has a settled concept and
method. and the fact that audience is _composing_ the music in real time is
the only part of the general oudeis concept that is working (if the concept
is 'to be together not being together', as i always explain it to people).
i guess this is as old as mail. but it's nice. it's the big thing about
oudeis (being together... not the choros). and its there. it's pure concept
(do you have a better way to get together people from around the world
during the play? perfect. let's try it!).

as always, you end up turning good ideas --this idea was there before
either of us got into this-- into stupid things (you managed to do that to
homer!)

if everybody agrees, i can contact some cheap L.A. musician to do a copy of
john williams (who copies Ravel who copies... i guess Mark Twain was
right). i'm sure Lee will love it.

santiago

music is dressed silence

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