Mauricio Kagel
A Non-European worldview is brought into the concert hall, as the performers assemble a collection of Asian, African and (native) American instruments to interpret Kagel's Exotica.
In my mind, as Kagel created this Spectacle of Performance, he was at the same time inviting a discussion on the issue of Spectacle. Is Spectacle equal to Exploitation? Is there a place for the Spectacle of Exploiting? What is the validity, if anything at all, of Spectacle?
[Warning to Tan-Dun Lovers: Exotica is a more thought provoking statement on the mixing of Musics than anything you will hear in the music of Tan-Dun. Kagel isn't just dishing out a neatly packaged Roundtrip to your favourite destination for World Musics. Of course, as with any Useful piece of music, the real discussion starts after careful listening and thinking]
In my mind, as Kagel created this Spectacle of Performance, he was at the same time inviting a discussion on the issue of Spectacle. Is Spectacle equal to Exploitation? Is there a place for the Spectacle of Exploiting? What is the validity, if anything at all, of Spectacle?
[Warning to Tan-Dun Lovers: Exotica is a more thought provoking statement on the mixing of Musics than anything you will hear in the music of Tan-Dun. Kagel isn't just dishing out a neatly packaged Roundtrip to your favourite destination for World Musics. Of course, as with any Useful piece of music, the real discussion starts after careful listening and thinking]
posted by Johnny Chang at 18:19
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