In this brief article (an extract from a paper given at the 1986 Newcastle Electric Music festival), the author attempts to show that a tape piece cannot in reality be ‘performed' in the same way as a piano piece can be performed. He argues that the experience of a tape-based concert is a fundamentally different one to a performance involving live instruments, and is one in which the traditions and presentational prejudices of live performance impinge on the experience.
The Problems of Tape Presentation
Mead, Philip
1986
Electroacoustic Music - Journal of the Electroacoustic Music Association of Great Britain 2(3-4): 24-25.
Language: English