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Standard Ploy is a sound performance piece
which finds its life in the fissures that occur between the origins
of a sound, the meaning it carries, and the effects upon that meaning
it brought about by its transmission through an electronic medium. During
the course of the piece, the sounds of a performer gradually become
temporally disassociated from the physical actions undertaken to produce
them. This perceptual disjuncture is partially offset by a slowly emerging
clarity of some musical elements and by the overall lushness of the
timbres employed. Standard Ploy serves as
a commentary on the process of electronic audio information transfer
and the extreme mediating influence that advanced technologies have
upon musical performance.
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