not exactly IDM - but close enough:
the prodigy have got it right
if yer gonna play music that makes you want to dance
(I "DANCE" M) then they have the right formula
if you make chin-scratching music ("INTELLIGENT" DM
)(sic) then the stage presence isnt really required so
much a la autechre live shows.
for this reason i find IDM pretty fucking boring live,
and prefer to listen to it at home. if im in a club, i
like to have a few beers and jump about. that might
not be the general list consensus - but i think most
people feel the same.
--- "... hellothisisalex ..."
<mark@hellothisisalex.com> wrote:
quoted 89 lines Hello,
> Hello,
>
> As a performer this is the kind of question that
> seems to pop into my own
> head every once and a while--what can I do that is
> entertaining for myself
> and the audience but allows me to create and perform
> electronic music in a
> live setting?
>
> Something that occurred to me recently was how much
> of this debate over
> 'live' performance rests on expectations carried
> over from rock and pop (and
> hiphop) concerts into electronic shows. It seems
> that the more successful
> shows in IDM draw on resources from outside IDM to
> make their shows
> engaging. But could it be that there is something
> about that use of
> computer that alienates people? A computer is a two
> way connection between
> a person and a machine, with both interacting (to
> some degree) with each
> other. The computer is designed to demand your
> attention in a manner so
> wholly different from that of most other instruments
> that it almost seems as
> though the audience is left out of the equation.
> Perhaps the audience feels
> that the performer isn't really 'there' as in
> engaging the audience, etc.
> So maybe this is a question of presence and
> absence--how much presence is
> demanded of the performer?
>
> I would say that 99.9% the presence required depends
> on the setting. Some
> people don't like to dance and would rather listen.
> Some performers would
> rather have people listen than dance. For example:
> the Autechre show
> mentioned; Radiohead has been known to ask people to
> not mosh at shows, etc.
> There is apparently a two-way communication between
> the audience and the
> performer to be maintained, and maybe the problem at
> a lot of IDM shows is
> that the audience isn't sure what the performer
> expects of them, and vice
> versa. I would say that musicians writing music for
> listening are asking
> people to listen, whether they like that or not.
> The audience doesn't have
> to comply, but they are being asked. If a performer
> is engaging the
> audience in a blatant manner (ala Cex), the audience
> knows they are being
> engaged.
>
> I don't have any answers to this solution, but I
> would also say that it can
> be disheartening for some musicians when the
> audience doesn't understand the
> 'unwritten rules' of a performance. All
> performances have them (picture Cat
> Power playing to an audience--should the audience
> listen quietly or jump
> about madly because they are so driven?) and some
> performances maybe just
> need to articulate them better. The first step I
> think I would take if I
> was a laptop artist would be to not perform raised
> up on a stage or in a
> position to be watched. Beyond that, I have no
> idea.
>
> cheers
> Mark & Melissa
> hellothisisalex
> www.hellothisisalex.com /
> records.hellothisisalex.com
> mp3s at
> www.raw42.com/cgi-bin/featuredartist.pl?artist=213
> mark@hellothisisalex
>
>
>
>
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