Definitely.
Let us return to the interface of the real. Tortoise is amazing.
I beleive the future of elctronic musical performances, which may fade in to
installation art soon enough, (not the music) will be about finding new
tools of interface, that will then pass through lap tops and other computer
related clutter. New instruments, new venues, architecture as the
interface, body, whatever. THis shit is being done, but the lap top is
beginning to put to sleep even the lap top enthusiasts.
The lap top accompaniment to Zakir Hussein and table beat science I thought
worked. The show was amazing, sometimes it was incredible, and at other
times the jam seemed too hard to be striving toward a jam, a latin jam or
something else it was not, nor ever could be, but I loved it. But you are
looking at an entire entourage up there, and the lap top is merely one
element.
Let the lap top drift into performance theater art interpretive gestural
aids, it is wuickly dwindling down to a mere AID.
-----Original Message-----
From: professor vast [mailto:professorvast11@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:39 AM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: [idm] Are Lap Top performances really performances?
i have to agree with this... laptops on stage are becoming lame...
whenever i play live... i use my good ole tascam tape 4 track
to run the backing tracks. i like using the knobs for each
track to mix each individual track in and out and being
able to pan things whenever i want without using the mouse
creating the tunes is enough mouse/keyboard work for me.
playing live shouldn't be a computer thing...
what about the good old days when the cocteau twins would
have their giant tape machine running the drum beats??
pv
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Horton" <sean_horton@hotmail.com>
To: <finoki@lucasarts.com>; <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:27 AM
Subject: RE: [idm] Are Lap Top performances really performances?
quoted 3 lines Personally if you're sitting up there staring a lap top (Phoenicia, Plaid,
> Personally if you're sitting up there staring a lap top (Phoenicia, Plaid,
> Richard Devine, Kid 606, etc) it's not a live performance in my opinion
> (even if they are dancing around on stage with their shirt off). I have
been
quoted 7 lines pretty keen on what these acts were actually doing live and most have just
> pretty keen on what these acts were actually doing live and most have just
> been playing back sequences with out any real variation from the album.
> Either that our setting up a very long track and doing live effects
> processing/knob twiddling which I find to be quite boring (Autechre).
>
> Mouse on Mars, Mum, and Tortoise spend 3-4 hours doing a sound check, lug
> equipment all over the globe, improvise and communicate with both the
crowd
quoted 2 lines and each other on stage. That is a performance. I refuse to pay to see any
> and each other on stage. That is a performance. I refuse to pay to see any
> more lap top "performances". I'll go home and listen to the "performance"
in
quoted 19 lines the comfort of my own home. To be honest I would rather go hear a DJ. At
> the comfort of my own home. To be honest I would rather go hear a DJ. At
> least they can keep a consistant groove.
>
> I am a lap top performer, so I shouldn't talk. I am however working with
> musicians on a live set. This, to me, is the necessary progression of
> electronic music in the live realm. Do any of you agree?
>
>
> >From: Bryan Finoki <finoki@lucasarts.com>
> >To: 'George Williamson' <georgewilliamson@btinternet.com>, idm list
> ><idm@hyperreal.org>
> >Subject: RE: [idm] Who performed the best live act that you have
> >seen/remember/reccomend?
> >Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:01:12 -0700
> >
> >Could people maybe add a little *why* they were the best?
> >
> >I am trying to get at what risks, what feats, what real live tweaking
> >madness the musicians are accomplishing at their shows. To what extent
are
quoted 49 lines they doign anything up there?
> >they doign anything up there?
> >
> >I saw Phoenicia not long ago, who gave a pretty sick demonstration of
> >LOGIC.
> >
> >Chris Wessin, when with the oRB was pretty amazing live engineer.
> >
> >YOU MIGHT EVEN SAY THE BLUE MEN!!!!
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: George Williamson [mailto:georgewilliamson@btinternet.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:58 AM
> >To: idm list
> >Subject: Re: [idm] Who performed the best live act that you have
> >seen/remember/reccomend?
> >
> >
> >Richard Devine on the Warp Magic bus tour
> >
> >or
> >
> >Broadcast in Edinburgh
> >
> >georgewilliamson
> >
> >
> >
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