Toying With Mortality
A solution to the problem of electronic music lacking a "performance" to document visually.
Why and to who is it a problem? When an audience observes a musicians performance, the audience experiences the expression of ideas in a language that, for many reasons, may or may not make sense. If the ideas expressed can make sense, observing its manifestation may provide the purist expression any audience can hope to make sense of.
Thus, in an age of perfect digital reproduction, people still go to shows to see it happen live. This goes to show that witnessing a performance can be a significant part of an audience bonding with a musician since it can demarcate a musicians integrity and authenticity, forming the basis of their popularity and reputation. An electronic musician needs an equivalent.
In what way and how is this a solution? To impress an audience, a producer must engage it. The audience exists in a world of diversions with fractured attention. It behooves a producer to know and respect the audience enough to publicize and provide authentic works. It would, in fact, define the extent of their integrity, as producers.
When an audience witnesses a musicians performance, the connection between the artist and the creation of the music establishes for the audience an integrity and authenticity (soul) that may ultimately lead to the acceptance or rejection (appreciation) of future work by that artist.
This use to be exclusively accomplished by attending live concerts but now is primarily achieved by observing apparently "live" videos and it is particularly important for emerging artists to not underestimate how significant it is to release a video that includes if only what appears to be a live performance of the music being heard.
With all that in mind, Toying With Mortality was created to provide a "face" for my own computer generated music.
