What makes the B team phenomenon so difficult to address is that you're dealing with a group of sound performers who are experienced, often committed to the best interests of the company, and, in the case of technical experts, difficult to replace.
Les Thatcher, who competed against Cormier, said that he, "technically, is probably one of the most sound performers that ever stepped foot in a ring".
No matter how sophisticated the interface or how vast the choice of sounds, performers point out that computer music depends on creativity as much as any conventional art form.
Now, to get the lowdown on some of the more local Square Sounds performers, we decided to go straight to the source and talk to Adelaide's Sebastian Tomczak, better known in the chip scene as Little Scale.
Pope.L's sound performance work Whispering Campaign takes place in both Athens and Kassel and involves 12 performers, 26 sound installations, and 9,438 hours of sound running 24/7 for 200 days.
Yesterday, Montreal-based sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier presented the third and last of frequencies, a series of artistic experimentations that focus on groundbreaking acoustic research at the crossroads between science, light, and sound-generating processes.
Their individual shows seamlessly weave together performances by local rock bands, experimental musicians, sound artists, performers, dancers and they always have a host.
In recordings, Bing Crosby or — greater still — Louis Armstrong both still sound like performers: you feel the stage and the footlights in their singing.
No matter how closely images on screen might reflect a score and vice versa, sound, live performers and film are invariably separate entities in most multimedia works.
