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:
quoted 27 lines On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:27:42PM -0400, Ed Hoc 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
>
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