I second the Richard Devine vote. Most of the core Schematic artists are laptoppy (?) and still manage to really get the audience involved. My personal favorite is Otto von Schirach -- his live show is nuts.
Another group of great live laptop performers are the ZOD Records guys out of Wisconsin. Curtis Chip and Emotional Joystick are particularly good, and both incorporate other instruments. CC incorporates an old Sequential Circuits drum machine and some other vintage toys, while EJ does live organ along with the laptop glitch. see www.zodrecords.com -- I see they are doing some shows in the Netherlands in early July, you Euro 313ers should check it out. As far as more traditional Detroit-flavored techno, I though Joris Voorn's set at Movement was the best techno live PA I've seen in a very long time. Seems like most "producers" -- or at least most producers around here -- use a laptop simply as a means to DJ without the chance of trainwrecking. If it's billed as a "Live PA" the artist should actually be CREATING something, not just throwing someone else's loops into Ableton and sequencing everything a week before the show. wtf are they doing up there anyway, checking their email? - jobot ----- Original Message ----- From: Glenn McClements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:23 am Subject: Re: (313) Laptop performances > > > Name some laptop performances you've seen that > >were really good SHOWS. And say why they were. Is it really > simply a > >case of having stellar visuals as well, or is there a whole new > paradigm>out there for this type of performance? > > > Richard Devine a few years ago in Glasgow. He rocked the entire > place, > you could see he was really getting into, which the crowd > responded to. > I've never seen anyone move a mouse with so much glee :) > > Conversely Plaid were on just before and looked utterly bored > behind > their laptops, which was a pretty dull experience for everyone, > even > though they had fantastic visuals. > > Glenn >
