] A bassist (like Jaco or Squarepusher) with an acoustic bass, an electric
] bass with some pedals (like wah and bass synth), an SH-101, and a
strap-on
] controller controlling a MIDI'd 303. The bassist would also have the
] ability to trigger little arpeggios or patterns or loop and manipulate
his
] own playing.
Maybe. However most producers are single entities. You rarely see large
groups
(or groups at all) in our field of music. I gather this is because once
that
happens, autonomy of production is lost and most producers like to have
total
control over their work. If you had Earth-Wind-Fire sized electronic groups
(7
members or maybe even more), then you could more than likely see these
people
get out front and play one (maybe even two) instruments real time live. Its
humanly impossible to control 10-15 instruments with only one person
playing
all of them live, so most people use Midi Sequencers to control playback of
the tracks because they dont have 10 brains, 20 arms, and 20 eyes to all
monitor, play, and time 10 or more different instruments at
once. Improvisation can still occur, that's for sure, but the experience
you
seem to be after is one more based around other forms of music played live.
Oh, these 3 guys wouldn't be using all their instruments at once or
anything. The bass guy would have his bass rig, the rhythm guy would have
his rhythm rig, and the keys/synth guy would have his. They'd each be
filling a part of the spectrum. I think yeah, this sounds more like jazzy
electronic stuff. But think, techno or house could easily be done like
this. I'm sure there are live PA's that have a guy on an MPC, somebody on
keys and a sequencer, and then maybe some dude on an SH-101. Oh, well, I'll
stop talkin now, thanks for the reply and input
= )
Rhythm_Droid
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