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my $0.02 First off, I am a guitarist, singer songwriter who has performed in numerous bands etc... and also have a love of IDMish electronic music.... Alomst every single IDM show I have seen has been a waste of my time and has bored my ass off, so much so that I am intentionally missing the autechre show here in seattle coming up, because really, I am sure their CDs would sound better anyway.... One exception being when I saw Orbital... but then again I was on heavy doses of happy pills.... What I would like to see is, and I know the technology exists to do this because I use it in the studio (Logic Audio) is much more improvisation, interactivity etc... The people want to see you play your instrument. If your instrument is a mouse then stay in the studio and forget about touring... At the very least, just have the drum parts be sequenced and actually play the other parts live on a keyboard... If you were to take it to the limit, you could have it so that every minute part of your song could be triggered/untriggered/layered in what ever order you wanted so that you could extend it, break it down in new ways and/or improvise over a little jam section depending on the croud mood..... Also, learn to play a real instrument!!! aside from the miraculous insights you will gain into the nature of music, fans like to see where the sound is coming from, and you can't see oscillators or bits... you can see strings vibrating, some one blowing into a flute... fingers moving, etc.... Basically, if you have any real musical skill your live shows will be impressive... twiddling knobs is not musical skill per say... composition is musical skill, twiddling knobs is sound design, but performance is a completely other matter altogether.... peace --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org