It seems there is a desperate requirement in this whole debate for "authenticity". As if the performer actually has to show the audience "hey I am playing live, honest!". How can you really do this when so much of the equipment is automated?
I don't think this is such a bad thing. All it means is that things are a lot more automated than they were many years ago, which is a general sign of the times. How many bands/live acts, not necessarily electronic, have you seen wheel out live shows that are virtually "automated" - in that they wheel out the same show, night in night out. Kraftwerk did that this year, and whilst it might have been great for them to veer off tangent, it did not take anything off the sheen of a highly polished live show. I think the general look of electronic equipment doesn't help either. I mean, a 909 doesn't have the aesthetic quality of a Les Paul guitar or a laptop have the dynamics of a drumkit. -----Original Message----- From: Dennis DeSantis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 June 2004 11:40 To: Gavin Daruvalla Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Laptop performances I don't think the discussion is getting hostile. Folks are just sharing their opinions, and that's why I love this list. I know Neil - we hung out in Montreal when I was touring in the spring. We're all cool :) -- Dennis DeSantis www.dennisdesantis.com Gavin Daruvalla wrote: > Dennis, this neil guy is a knob. I'm sorry to be so crass, but jezus, i hate > it when people just try to make a competiton out of the whole scene. Kind of > sad to say, come and watch me, play my records, and if you don't like me piss > off. I mean please. > > Does it matter if you dance around on stage and make your show a show, after > all that's what people are paying their money for, otherwise why not just buy > a CD and listen to it at home? But each to their own, no one is wrong no one > is right, some people have a visual part to their act, some don't, so what? > > I'm fed up of people ssaying do this, do that, this is better, I am better > than you. Raaagahaghaghg. > > On the laptop front, i've just ditched my turntables, and now use nothing > else but Traktor. Does that make me a different DJ? I'm still beatmatching, > i'm just using MP3 instead of vinyl. Anyway, as i've always said, Mixing is > done on the mixer, not the decks/laptop. > > I know the discussion is re: Live shows, but hey, no one takes us laptop > "DJ's" seriously!!!!
