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Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision

by Jerry D'Souza
September 15, 2004

Man and machine manipulate music. Man thinks and machine obeys. That's the way it has been with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since the group banded together in 1992. Sound and signal processors, as well as computers, are fed by the imagination of the players. Technology swallows the impulse and pours it out. What happens at the end of the process is what counts. Does the end justify the means? Has the manipulation worked?

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