On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Q-Bot Eye wrote:
quoted 5 lines I keep hearing about the lack of support for live performances of
> I keep hearing about the lack of support for live performances of
> IDM... and I wonder how true this is. I for one, would go out to watch
> it if I knew it was around. Also, I love playing live. What is it that
> keeps people from going to see live elctronic music (other than at
> parties)?
I dunno- whenever I play live most people just sort of stand there
confused unless I play some of my hardcore. It's like they don't know
what they're supposed to be doing. This is kind of like back when jungle
first broke, and people weren't sure if they were supposed to dance,
listen or just leave the room and listen to some acid hosue. (Most chose
the last one at first, which is about where the IDM scene is sitting right
now too, except they leave for trance instead.)
quoted 9 lines About all this talking about commercials and IDM and Dn'B and whether
> About all this talking about commercials and IDM and Dn'B and whether
> it is mainstream or not, blahblahblah... I think part of the problem is
> that people (general generic "normal" people) have a hard time with
> instrumental music in general. People need to have the feelings of a
> song jammed down their throats with words, rather than appreciating the
> subtlety of just listening to the music. Electronic music rarely
> reaches the general public unless it has somone singing over it (ala
> cher, madona, ace of bass), or unless it has some image placed over it
> (ala the heavy use of it in commercials, tv, movies, etc...)
Yea, that's a very American thing- people have a really hard time getting
into anything that they can't associate an image with. I think our mass
media has done this too us (particulalry TV and MTV especially).
A lot of my friends who aren't into electronic music always ask me what I
do when I perform live- they can't imagine just watching me with a laptop
and a drum machine. These are the same people that saw Kid 606 open for
Fantomas and thought he was boring, though, so screw them. :)
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