"Everyone's a sound engineer. The live-sound engineer has the tools to distort sound beyond all recognition but works in an industry which demands that the illusion of reality be preserved intact. This scenario imitates the way that a human being interacts with the world, encountering phenomena and processing the experience for comprehension. The Public Address (PA) system is a dynamic model for the human perceptual system – the microphones are sensory inputs, the mixing console is a brain, the loudspeaker is a mouth. Sound meets the system and is processed for reproduction. The live-sound engineer is an organising ego, an interpreter, ‘making sense’ of acoustic energy and fabricating a perfect replica. But is it art or engineering? Technical Manifesto for the Deviant Sound Engineer playfully explores the potential to usurp non-negotiable Realism, even as it examines the conventional role of a live-sound engineer – the expectations and the relationships encountered between audience, performer and interfacing engineer, in the uncompromising environment of a live performance event." - från omslagets baksida