|I've been to many readings where the principle concern of 99 per cent of
|people present is not to listen, but to read. Which makes for an
|incredibly depressing experience. And the question of audience? What's
|that?
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|Tho' the morris dancers sound memorable and peculiarly exotic in this
|hemisphere!
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|Alison Croggon
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Ha! It's an exoticism I can do without. 99% of the SVP audience want to hear
and see, but a minority of that 99% do seem to think it all happens by magic
and that they are doing me a favour by turning up
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|The simple space where everyone including the reader can hear and be
|included seems so very hard to achieve.
Many many many many years ago, a Mr C Cheek, a Mr Vonna-Michell imported a
tape of the outside world into a room during a festival of environmental
sound - they had soundproofed the room the better to hear the environmental
music, so we took in a tape that was a rough approximation of what might
have been heard there at that time and played it over our piece. Don't know
if cris remembers that.
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I like Ric's sensory deprivation idea, but as he says it does not help re
mobiles. I am sure that a device could be created which would concentrate
the radiation emitted to lethal levels. There'd be a smell of frying meat of
course, but that would be more pleasant than bits of plinky-plonk on a chip
loop
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Quick advert. Tuesday / SVP / Lisa Robertson, Not to be missed & a mag which
if can get it out - there are some problems - includes Lisa, Rob Holloway,
Johan de Wit and Alaric Sumner. If *that happens you get it free if it gets
out & I'll announce on Wednesday
L
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