quoted 7 lines Yes, I probably should've informed myself before I went to see his show. I>Yes, I probably should've informed myself before I went to see his show. I
>like a lot of the stuff on his albums, and so had some expectations. Without
>expectations, there can be no dissapointments, right? However, it would be
>far from impossible for him to do a live show. I guess he's just to lazy and
>ambivalent to bother spending the time and effort to set one up. In any
>case, I would have felt completely cheated out of my money if Prefuse73 had
>not been there to tear it up.
Well part of the reason I don't enjoy going to a lot of IDM shows is
that I don't know what to expect from the performers.
Anyway, with mr Tobin, he's never performed live (as has been
discussed on this list many, many times in the past years), and
always DJ'd. Why? Well, listen to his music. it's all very
intricate and hard sequenced. If he were to play it live, he would
do just that -- hit play. By DJ'ing, he can do a lot more with it
than he would be able to otherwise, so, for him, the lazy part would
be to simply reproduce his tracks online, as there's no "live"
element to those. He figures he should at least do something, and
for him, that's DJ'ing.
It's a valid approach to a live show, and, as is apparently already
happening on the list, people are going to argue over what
constitutes a good live show vs. a boring laptop show :)
I mean, you have to ask yourself whether you think someone clicking a
mouse a few times to trigger pre-built sounds and sequences is more
or less live than someone physically spinning pressed tracks.
derek
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