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	<title>Comments on: Beautiful Pictures</title>
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		<title>By: Liner Notes Danny</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liner Notes Danny</dc:creator>
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		<description>I have to agree re: Korot/Kid Pix.  To be fair, I can&#039;t help thinking that a live performance of Three Tales would be a heck of a lot better than watching it on my TV, where instead of a live performance with clever video accompaniment it&#039;s a stiff video presentation with a Steve Reich soundtrack.

But one of the great things about Steve Reich is the way he embraces the &quot;flaws&quot; in live realizations of his most mechanical process-music, e.g. the way the dirty timbre of the Six Organs complicates that piece and brings it to life.  Korot&#039;s Three Tales video doesn&#039;t match up.  It smacks of machine presets--like listening to the MIDI file of a string quartet instead of the real thing.  All your ingenious counterpoint and motific development (and there&#039;s certainly a lot of that in her libretto/visuals) ain&#039;t worth a dang if it doesn&#039;t have that nuance.  Maybe she should go the Gann route, and get somebody to remix it for her?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to agree re: Korot/Kid Pix.  To be fair, I can&#8217;t help thinking that a live performance of Three Tales would be a heck of a lot better than watching it on my TV, where instead of a live performance with clever video accompaniment it&#8217;s a stiff video presentation with a Steve Reich soundtrack.</p>
<p>But one of the great things about Steve Reich is the way he embraces the &#8220;flaws&#8221; in live realizations of his most mechanical process-music, e.g. the way the dirty timbre of the Six Organs complicates that piece and brings it to life.  Korot&#8217;s Three Tales video doesn&#8217;t match up.  It smacks of machine presets&#8211;like listening to the MIDI file of a string quartet instead of the real thing.  All your ingenious counterpoint and motific development (and there&#8217;s certainly a lot of that in her libretto/visuals) ain&#8217;t worth a dang if it doesn&#8217;t have that nuance.  Maybe she should go the Gann route, and get somebody to remix it for her?</p>
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