On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, William Samuels wrote:
quoted 5 lines Great Live Show?? I didn't think you could really do a> Great Live Show?? I didn't think you could really do a
> whole hell of a lot of "live" improvisation with
> laptops. At one Lexaunculpt show, Alex had someone
> else on stage clicking the mouse for him so he could
> hang in the audience.
maybe it sounded good? some people go to shows to listen to the music
rather than for trainspotting (not me, mind you...)
when i saw lexaunculpt, he sat far offstage in a booth with his powerbook
while most of the audience sat in front of the stage thinking that the
guys running the video system were the musicians.
i do agree though, it is more interesting to see the music actually being
"created" before your eyes rather than "played back" from a soundfile
(which is what alex did when i saw him play)... but i think that the
majority of people going to shows arent' going to be able to tell the
difference between somebody playing back soundfiles or tweaking knobs on a
mixer/synth ...
jsoh
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