On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Mark Richardson wrote:
quoted 2 lines I've always wondered about this, all the musicians that perform with
> I've always wondered about this, all the musicians that perform with
> laptops these days, how often are there software problems and crashes?
Well, I've still yet to have my laptop crash during a performance, but
it has a few times whilest practicing a performance at home. Would
definitely suck if it happened live, but not much worse than say a
guitarist breaking a string or something.
quoted 8 lines Also, when musicians are performing live with laptops, what are they
> Also, when musicians are performing live with laptops, what are they
> doing exactly? As in, what software are they using and are they
> actually, like, cutting and pasting sound files and opening and
> closing windows and so forth in real time? I can't imagine looking at
> a computer monitor and manipulating a touch pad with 1,000 people
> staring at me. Seems like a nerve-racking way to perform...Thanks to
> anyone for some info. on this, I've always been very curious about the
> particulars of laptop performance.
Well, a lot of people just kind of press play, much like a lot of live PAs
with hardware. Still not as bad as ones who use a DAT (*cough* ATR
*cough*), I guess. :)
I've seen some people play live where they basically make a bunch of loops
ahead of time and kind of bring them in and out in real time... It's
worked, but it is a little too static or something. Something just
unappealing about it to me. I saw two laptop performances last week
that were like that (one of them being Jake Mandell) and they just didn't
do it for me for some reason.
Does anybody know what Aphex Twin plays with live? I know he alters his
songs, but does he do it in real-time?
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