Girl Talk

[Jeremy]

While Girl Talk isn't an a-list celebrity, he is a celebrity nonetheless.

It should be noted that being a serious musician is not "the 18th
century equivalent of a DJ." Apparently you don't know what a symphony
orchestra conductor does, or what serious musicians do. That's OK.


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:02 PM,  <manny at garfieldartworks.com> wrote:
>
>> You compared Girl Talk to the conductor of a Symphony Orchestra. Heh.
>
> Well, technically, you said he is an example of celebrity.
>
> So I merely brought out an example with which I thought you'd resonate,
> that is the function of a symphony orchestra conductor as celebrity, which
> is quite common. They don't put the entire orchestra on billboards and bus
> stop ads, they put the face of the conductor, who is the face of the
> orchestra, even though he does not perform on an instrument, nor create or
> perform his original music. The conductor, unless he is conducting his own
> music, has nothing to do with the performance of original music creations
> (and neither do the symphony players), only with the reinterpretation of
> others' works, like the 18th century equivalent of a DJ.
>
> And therefore, the conductor is more about celebrity, and less about
> performance, than Girl Talk is, who performs his own original works live.
>
> In other words, the medium of performance has changed so much - from
> orchestra, to rock band, to banks of synths and drum machines, to a laptop
> - that the frame of reference has to change radically as well. The
> performance should be put in its proper contemporary context (and not
> misunderstood), which is that of a single guy using Ableton Live to play
> his music on stage in a performance setting.
>
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