i agree with the coment below...been thinking about this thing for quite i while, what is "live" and what is "less" live?
i don?t mind people that use laptops, but as for me, i can?t see people paying X bucks to see me play live with a mouse and a computer. and belive me, the thoght has crossed my mind, while i?ve been breaking my back and my gear, carrying them around airports. it would be so nice to just have one piece of equipment that you could take with you on the plane. but the only thing is that i?m not sure how people would appriciate it and how fun i would have sitting infront of a laptop and clicking away... i got an mpc because i was sick of looking into a monitor while playing/producing music. dunno, feel like an rockmusician that would claim that playing techno live or producing it isn?t actually playing music...it?s so ignorant and i hate myself for thinking that way, and when reading rythm droids comments, it just reminds me that the music is the important thing to listen to but i can?t help thinking of the "entertaining" part of a live performance to. i would love to have people just carrying on dancing during a live-set, but usually, everyone?s just end up standing/moving infront of the stage as if it was a rock-concert. aril ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:31:42 +0930 (CST) To: Rhythm Droid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Kieran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [313] Live shows... Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Rhythm Droid wrote: ] 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. ] ] That'd be sick. Maybe it'll happen someday? 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. cya, Kieran ------------------------------
