I've seen some pretty cool shows where people have
brought gear and played their keyboards, and made
samples live to interact with the audience. Perhaps
the beats were pre-programmed, and they had it
basically planned out a head of time...but it felt
like he was reacting to the crowd's enthusiasm.
When I saw Paperclip People in SF. Carl was obviously
had a good portion of the music preprogrammed, but he
also played the keyboards. I rate this show a lot
higher than all of the other mouse clicking shows I
had seen that year.
If I wanted to watch mouse clicking and hear music. I
would wear headphones at work. It's the "air guitar"
of the new millennium...sarcasm
--- atomly <atomly@atomly.com> wrote:
quoted 4 lines Well, I've seen a few really good live performances
> Well, I've seen a few really good live performances
> with laptops. Kid606, Jake Mandell and one of Jake
> Mandell's friends from Minneapolis, Brian Tester all
> use essentially the same approach. Kid606 and
Briant
quoted 32 lines Tester both use Reaktor to load in different loops
> Tester both use Reaktor to load in different loops
> and apply effects to them in realtime, Jake Mandell
> uses Max/MSP to do the same thing, basically.
>
> While they can't completely improvise, this still
> allows them to shape the music in realtime and
> really respond to the crowd just as much as
> say a member of a band could.
>
> When I perform live I do any of a number of
> things... Sometimes I use Tactile 12000s or a
> similar program to mix between songs, which is fun,
> but doesn't really allow me to be any more creative
> than a DJ really, except that I can write a bunch of
> weird stuff the day of the show to throw in.
>
> I've also performed live with AudioMulch and that
> was completely live. The only problem I have with
> completely live performances is that unless you work
> out a bunch of patterns and stuff beforeheand (thus
> making them not really live), they tend to be really
> slow-moving and repetitive.
>
> Also, I've seen Dan Doormouse, Abelcain and Venetian
> Snares all perform live with two laptops running
> trackers (Doormouse and Abelcain use FT2, Venetian
> Snares uses OctaMed) and beatmatch/crossfade DJ
> style, which is cool.
>
> Well, my main problem with gear is that unless
> people write a lot of loops ahead of time (thus
> making it not very live anyway), it tends to be
slow-> moving and repetitive.
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