The (Anti-) Laptop Aesthetic.

This paper explores the use of French critic Pascal Beausse's and Jody Berland's descriptions of our contemporary moment to elaborate on the potential for reviving the twentieth-century avant-garde tradition of Cage and Kagel vis-à-vis Terre Thaemlitz in laptop performance.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Contemporary Music Review Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 53 - 58
Main Author: Jaeger, Timothy
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2003
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Summary:This paper explores the use of French critic Pascal Beausse's and Jody Berland's descriptions of our contemporary moment to elaborate on the potential for reviving the twentieth-century avant-garde tradition of Cage and Kagel vis-à-vis Terre Thaemlitz in laptop performance.