let me state first that i don't think watching some guy play on a laptop is
fun either,
the majority of the time. however, i perform this way and right now i don't
have any
alternative... i think you'd be hard pressed to find a band that sounded
like kid 606
or some of the more out there electronic performers. kid 606 is not a rock
band,
and anyone going to the show expecting that sort of live performance is
making a
mistake, but hopefully this hypothetical person would be in awe of the BIG
GIANT
AMAZING SOUND that very few bands can make and none of them can make it
in the same way as a computer performer can. laptop performers ought not to
be put on a stage if they're going to just stare at the laptop or play with
mix/eq stuff
(but as far as what you said about staring intently at the screen... granted
there are
people for whom the "live-ness" of their performance is questionable... but
if you
take someone who you know to be actually performing instead of just
selecting,
it's probably a much better thing that they're staring very intently at their
screen,
as navigating a gui with your eyes closed or looking the other way is not the
easiest
thing in the world.)...
anyway...
gregory
///aaron said:
Well, I've been feeling pretty jaded about this stuf lately. Most of
the time, in my experience, there is someone behind a laptop doing god-
knows-what or messing around with faders or eq on their mixer. That
stuff is not fun to watch. However, I don't have much of a problem
with this if its in a kind of dance oriented atmosphere.
///