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Getting the Hands Dirty
- Leonardo Music Journal
- The MIT Press
- Volume 18, 2008
- pp. 25-31
- Article
- Additional Information
"Getting the hands dirty" refers to an approach in which process and performance are inseparably bound. The "performance" begins on the work-bench and is extended onto the "stage" through live bricolage. The idea of "dirt" is seen as a critical ingredient in the process of live electronic music, and the term "dirty electronics" is used to describe an increasing focus in electronic music on shared experiences face-to-face, ritual, gesture, touch, social interaction and the exploration of devised instruments. The author concludes that digital technology has merely reinforced the importance of the human body and the physical in live performance.