Arjan van de Merwe wrote:
quoted 4 lines It's not that I think this type of music _needs_ more live elements, I> It's not that I think this type of music _needs_ more live elements, I
> merely would like to see what possibilities there would be. (Like, does
> any of the artists discussed here improvise on the _rhythmic_
> structures anyhow, etc.)
Of late we (Human Beings) set out to play a festival in Rotterdam. Once we set up our stuff
aproblem occurred. Both our MMT8's had wiped their memory and we had been so stupid not to
bring any back ups. Panic. We decided to play an improvised set, to the extent that we would
put the 909 in write mode and create rythms like that. Just like we did in the old days
Arjen :). We would use the external track of the 909 to get some acid out of the MKS7 synth.
Only we had to do 50 minutes. Thank god Speedy J turned up and brought his 303 (I could see
his house from the stage). We played 50 minutes of raw 'improvised' acid with a lot of live
drumprogramming, added effects and mixer tricks. The crowd dug it. and at least I thought it
was live.
I could go on... I cannot think of myself going on stage miming to a DAT, and I think what I
generally do on stage is lively enough, mixing and matching, controlling sounds and
structure...
Bye,
Allert
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Allert Aalders - Big Time Concepts - allert@knoware.nl - KoX