1> First of all, I'd like to say that live PAs can include improvisation, I
have been playing totally live keyboards with my live PAs for quite a while
now, and since my background is in jazz i really DO improvise and I'm NOT a
"band". Of course performing live (especially when your setup is as ghetto
as mine) is no easy task and I have grown a lot since I first started
performing. I am now sometimes adding a live saxophonist but I certainly
don't think that makes it a band either...
2> This brings me to a side bar, one downfall of playing live as opposed to
playing records is, I am dependant on the equipment I have, which is all
CHEAP because I still pretty much live on ramen noodles... My point is,
sometimes I get down on myself because I feel that no matter how well I
play, no matter how creative I am, there is no way I can duplicate the kind
of well produced sounds I hear on some of my favorite records... I wonder
what others on 313 think about this? Is it really just about the music or
is it about the equipment too? I can't afford one piece of gear that I
would describe as being really good... It puts some very specific
parameters around what is and isn't possible to do live. (In fact I can't
even reproduce what I can create with a computer and since I don't have a
laptop I am reluctant to bring my PC to a venue where it may get damaged...)
3> what is this ableton live? I've heard of this but don't know anything
about it...
4> Along the lines of what Jason was saying about live PAs being only one
sound for an hour, with nothing necessarily recognizable to the audience, I
have hit on a personal solution and I wonder what others here think of it.
I don't use any samples in my set, but I sometimes now quote songs or riffs
in my keyboard playing... for instance the keyboard line from Good Life...
or a Charlie Parker/Thelonius Monk tune, or a famous instrumental house
track...Another thing I've been doing is taken a track that I sampled and
playing it live... like this George Benson tune with kenny baron soloing on
rhodes that I used for a house track... As a working musician who has had
to play a lot of bad covers, I really like this way of playing old material,
it's much more personal than just doing a straight cover, almost like
sampling... I wondered what others thought. Am I just stealing or is this
a valid form of relooking at the musical past?
From: "Jayson B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [313] Techno DJs VS Techno Live PAs
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:28:12 +0000
well, although i admire and LOVE the live sets of all these bloaks, lets not
give them too much credit. the word 'improvisational' really doesn't apply
to a single live pa, unless they're more of a band (which this arguement
doesn't apply to anyways). Electronic music production, by its very nature,
doesn't allow much room at ALL for live improv.
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