dude - i def =think it sl ike djing
i mean how live can it ever be?> well leave that to
thew music theoeticans and modernists...its all about
presence, like a dj...
rocking a party....know what i mean?
mi.
--- emulsion <info@emulsionmusic.com> wrote:
quoted 79 lines This makes me think of something - I spent a ton of
> This makes me think of something - I spent a ton of
> time chopping up
> all the tracks from songs off my record into loops
> and stuff with the
> idea of making it interesting and really live
> feeling... but at my
> last few gigs I pretty well just followed along with
> what I had
> established on the album-- extending and
> beat-repeating a drum part
> here, tweaking filter and delay there. They're good
> songs, and
> deconstructing them into something totally arbitrary
> and on the fly
> loses some of the magic. Performing live with a
> laptop includes a
> spectrum from "checking email" to "total on-the-fly
> improvisation"
> and I think to make a live set interesting (for the
> performer at
> least) and musical, it's somewhere in between.
>
> Nathan
>
> On May 19, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Clint M. Sand wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:27:42PM -0400, Ed Hoc
> wrote:
> >> the same thing that prevents a guitarist from
> doing the same --
> >> pride in
> >> what you accomplish. if your pride is in being a
> performance art,
> >> fine. the
> >> rules stipulate that music must come from your
> laptop because it
> >> is the
> >> method most common to non-fakers; that fakers can
> use it is no
> >> concern to
> >> me.
> >
> > I don't think this is a fair comparison. The
> guitarist in a guitar
> > contest woudn't be plugging in a cd player or
> something in which to
> > fake
> > it to. The laptop user however, has this power
> just by the nature of
> > his/her instrument.
> >
> > I don't care one way or the other. I almost think
> it would be
> > entertaining to watch a bunch of people fake it
> and try to look
> > interesting. I was more suggesting that the video
> projection adds
> > something cool to it while helping protect against
> this. I think it
> > would be funny as hell to watch someone perform by
> using the mouse to
> > turn the cutoff knob on a filter back and forth
> for a whole set. Thats
> > what I expect people are doing anyway. tee hee.
> >
> > For the record, i also turn the pan knob! so
> there. :-P
> >
>
>
> [new album out on Lens Records. available via
> southern and tonevendor.]
> emulsionmusic.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
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