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> Anig Browl
Project the screen of the computer onto a big overhead at the back of
the stage.
Wear coke bottle lenses or ski goggles with a lab coat or artsy black
turtleneck professor type outfit, and use a pointer to indicate when
tracks are going to fade in/out etc. while pretending to use the entire
thing as a visual aid for a long monotonous lecture... occasionally turn
around and look at the audience as if something is really interesting
about the 'lecture'.
Then when it comes time to work it out, snap the pointer over your knee,
throw off the goggles and stage dive into the crowd with an expression
of furious glee on your face.
Get back on stage and play air guitar with a peripheral keyboard.
Wear a headphone on one air and pretend to 'scratch' the laptop mousepad
with supergreg-like intensity.
These are just a few stupid stunts that might just possibly work.
Also see if you're up for GWAR style squirtgunning the crowd and
throwing raw meat into the audience. Can easily see V/VM doing this and
pulling it off.
Pretend to sing the high hat line into a microphone that's not plugged
into anything. That or actually beat box through a MIDI gated filter or
noise gate, which is hella fun anyway.
Bottom line is that if you don't care and have fun yourself, the crowd
will pick it up and carry through. I've done noise shows where me and a
tubby guitarist pulled off quite the crowd pleasing antics just by
wearing dumb outfits a la DEVO and spasming randomly in the midst of our
performance. Whatever aesthetic you choose, do it with panache, and
nothing else matters.
Not that I'm an authority, I've just been thinking a lot about this
lately (can you tell)?
Tom
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