For years, musician and performer David Moss

has been facing mounting requests to adapt some of his work

for the Web. His answers are simple and direct.

Instead of putting his music on the Internet for anyone to

hear, Moss began performing concerts for audiences of one,

two or three. He sets up in two adjoining rooms or in an

apartment, offers guests a beautiful and comfy sofa to sit on

and begins a 20-minute show.

"It's a living room connection between people and yet it's

completely weird and abstract and something they would

never hear on the radio normally," said Moss, an American

who has lived in Berlin for six years. "I love the

contradiction between intimacy and strangeness that comes from bringing experimental music into an intimate

setting."

Moss organized the NoTech Performance Workshop Fest in

Berlin, where last week musicians, actors, artists,

dancers, and others interested in live performance gathered

to practice, perform, and talk about their role in a society

increasingly dominated by technology.

"Why should there be a special thing called an artist

anymore? Things disappear," said Moss. "Maybe this

function of a performing artist is only meant to exist from

about 1800 or 1700 until now and then disappear. I don't

know. I don't know the answer to these questions, I just

want people to think about it."

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