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professor vast
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Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:36:23 -0700
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Re: [idm] re: Are Lap Top performances really performances?
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i can see where you're coming from... i just want more organic instrumental integration with idm. it's not like i listen to tons of idm all the time... it's there in a lot of the music i do listen to. bits and pieces. and i agree... you can control a lot... but you can also automate all that... that's what i do... i could sit there and muck about with all the filter sweeps and volume/pan automation and all that but it's more fun with the knobs. there's a more human element to panning something with yer fingers than automated. of course there's still automation because i also like precisionperfect automation of sounds... i'm sorta in the middle... i love what technology does for me... but i also am an old school guitar player who values a musician's lifeforce coming thru in the performance. that's why i've integrated both things in my live performances. i prefer having both. though i go see dj stuff more than bands... because rock bands don't have the cosmic power that bands like led zeppelin had... but when you heard hard wicked drum and bass blasting at you...that same sort of anarchic music blasting feeling comes thru again. all my musical inclinations coexist constantly so it's hard for me to pin down any extreme opinion on this sorta thing. but it's fun to try and get at the reasons and ideas... db ----- Original Message ----- From: "adrian jonsson" <adrian.jonsson@telia.com>
quoted 21 lines i don't really see your point. a laptop can give you great control over> i don't really see your point. a laptop can give you great control over > the music, while tape seems very static to me. > > /adrian (cellular) > http://cellmusic.cjb.net > > >i record the tunes on to the 4 track from the computer. so a certain > >digital brightness is taken away. i like that. it softens it up a bit > >giving the beats a bit more bottomness. not so harsh high end. > > > >it is a tool that's definitely worthwhile, but just using the laptop > >onstage is nothing but lipsyncing without the singing. i could > >go to the guy's house and have him turn on his laptop. it's nothing > >more than a computer running a program. that's NOT live performance. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >
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