Regardless of Lucent's earnings setbacks, the company has been a sound performer.
Among them will be the Japanese sound performer Keiji Haino, the American experimental hip-hop group D k, the Italian duo My Cat Is an Alien, and the pioneering English guitarist Fred Frith.
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.
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.
You're always conscious of the scrabbling sound of performers digging deep into their psyches in search of buried emotions, as if you were sitting in on a session at the Actors Studio.
The excesses of rock superstardom elicited both a return to DIY rock and roll (in the roots sounds of performers such as Bruce Springsteen and in the punk movement of British youth) and a self-consciously camp take on rock stardom itself (in the glam rock of the likes of Roxy Music, David Bowie, and Queen).
That set off a parody of the song "Tonight," starting with the introduction sung in "West Side Story" by Maria and Tony, all of which the late-night hosts lip-synched to voices that sounded like performers from a road company of "'Les Misérables".
