YouTube Video: JAZARI – How It Works
Note: Jazari was featured on NPR: Jazari: A One-Man, Wii-Operated Drum Circle. What is interesting about the band’s approach (the band consists of only one person, composer/programmer Patrick Flanagan) is that by programming two Wii controllers for speed, rhythm, loudness and syncopation, the performance references the role of a conductor in front of an orchestra or phylarmonic. One could speculate on the meaning of this approach to making music, especially in regards to how a performer has a certain agency in front of the audience. What happens when this delivery is done through a computerized set up? Where is the mythologized hand of the artist?
