Klarinet Archive - Posting 001165.txt from 2003/06

From: jimmy lee <jrlaudio@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Electronic Acoustical Performance
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:35:25 -0400

To some the LAGQ is not even music!!
Jimmy

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

> Karl Krelove wrote:
>
> If the group is acoustically unbalanced, whose responsibility is it and
> shouldn't there be a way to correct the problem acoustically?
>
> You have raised the same issue for live performances that I described as
> "honesty" in my previous question about recordings. Where should the
> line be drawn?
>
> Recently I attended a live performance of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
> in a small 100-person room. This example won't mean much if you aren't
> familiar with their music, but I would describe them as the best of
> their genre, near-virtuosos if not virtuosos. Despite the fact that
> they played indoors in a small room with substantial reverberation, they
> mic'd each of the four guitars/lutes and amplified all of them somewhat.
> The total sound truly filled the room, but it was not loud enough to
> cause distortion or 80-decibel ear-splitting sounds that blanketed each
> other. I thought that the finished product was more pleasing than if
> there had been no amplification --- which is to say, if the LAGQ had
> offered to perform either with or without the amplification, I would
> have chosen the amplified performance.
>
> Does this make me less sophisticated, less musically sensitive, less
> <whatever> than I should be? The same question in reverse: was LAGQ
> abusing the music simply because their performance was not 100%
> acoustic?
>
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