The Philosophy of Gear
Suggestions of collaborative
format and methodology for electronic artists,
tech-pirates, digital nomads, electrified entrepreneurs and new-rave
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Before we can speak of the philosophy of
gear, one must consider the philosophy of trade, because gear is nothing if
not tools of a trade: Trade of life-giving resources, commodities, fanciful
objects, appliances, machines and even more gear. Trade extending into the realm
of ideas, energies and channeled emotion... a global, cultural and often abstract
trade via the performing arts: music and corresponding media. "We want
the airwaves." And with gear as our means of a super-natural productivity,
we focus in on perhaps the most volatile life-aspect as accelerated (benefitted?)
by gear: communication... data: facts, thoughts and/or imagery manifest thru
mechanisms of interface, now near-limitless (eventually effortless?) in the
digital domain: and perhaps fleshed-out most hopefully futuristic, as represented
thru ecstatic rhythm and tone: ELECTRONIC MUSIC... and its ever-evolving embodiments
of gear, instrumentation: to which we're hooked up, configured, plugged in,
almost to the point of implant, making music with which to make interplanetary
contact, or at least lead us ever further into this lightning renaissance of
real-time worldwide and wireless exchange, the next-best-thing-to-being-there:
virtual reality...coming to terms with rocket science... and the near-infinite
inner powers of the microchip...
"The future's so bright i gotta wear shades", if and only if we don't
side-track, and perhaps for once default to choosing the substance over the
bombast... that which truly floats a boat, in day to day situations: integrity,
or some other common ground pre-meditated in format, yet never short on inspirational
spontaneity, creativity: Intellectual Property and/or freeform spoken word,
mixed and remixed loops, random sample-playback and clip-art collage...output,
PRODUCT: a cooler form of commerce if you will: Live Performance, as brought
to life by the free-will human manipulation of GEAR: Relayed experiences, dramatizations,
gyrations and beats for your listening and observational pleasures, either spectator
sport or participatory dancefloor, trade-show or warehouse rave... techno takes
the bored out of the board-room, and with each technological surge, this is
the motive power of gear. Prepare ye for the new media. Strong, objective and
courageous... outspoken and judicious, and as the Ghost in the Machine demands
of us: No fear of the possession of gear. Rather fear ye the repossession of
reality: beware the subtle lines between fact/opinon and lies: Documentary vs.
illusion and the treatment of time-sensitive material: News broadcast and talk,
tribal 6pm ritualized tune-in barraged by commercials implies perhaps its time
to drop-out. Put one's foot down and perhaps tomorrow's news will be delivered
over unbiased breakbeat as opposed to corporate muzak bumper branding or subjective
pop song sold-out on soap... Fact transmission live-sung as opposed to telepromted
or pre-recorded tape. In front of a live studio audience, we join this program
in progress, and the already-converted have been waiting way too long and way
too patiently. 21st century televisual ain't TV no more. 21st century TV ain't
gonna be centered around some dumb box, over-inflated and produced for the overblown
TV ego. New media must no longer reflect the cultural side-track taken by our
1950's-born networks: The American TV Dream (No longer indicative of its past)
is a now-outdated entertainment format which may have reached its peak with
the original Star Trek... and thank God for the final frontier... Live long
and prosper... and bring on the new gear.
e>k>g '03
QuickTime rhythms from the road:
6/2/02:
A mix of mobile real-time
drum tracks with video highlights
from the east coast re-launch
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