Micheal Waisvisz - The Hands

This performance was very impressive. Well, I'm not so sure about the animal noises. No need for those I say!

Otherwise, the use of his voice in creating tribal drones for the introduction was great, and he appeared to be in total control of his sounds. Although, he might not have been in control at all. Be it his choice of sounds, or his choice of structure and overall 'feel' of the piece, it wasn't very obvious to me what he was controlling and manipulating and what he was not. It was transparent to me, and I'm sure anyone watching, that his voice was a main sound-source for the piece. Yet his movements, arm and especially finger movements, were not making apparent enough changes to the piece. To my eyes anyway. I'm sure there's someone out there who could associate his bodily movements to the music being created here.

After watching this performance for the first time I was left impressed by the sound of the piece and the idea that Waisvisz was controlling the sounds with a controller on each hand and buttons under each finger, but was left wanting more detail. I would rather see a more obvious correlation between movement and sound. I also felt distracted by facial expressions, which is not a good thing when you're supposed to be appreciating a piece of music created through movements of the body and voice.

But maybe I'm being too critical now...