BTW, my two cents on this thread - I think the unexplored frontier is
still the interaction of DJ / programmers with live musicians and
vocalists. There are a lot of ways this can be done, and lots of new
ones are opening up all the time. Even though this is hardly a new area
still there are a lot of fresh combinations to be tried.
Having moved back to the US in 2001 after ten years in Asia, it seems
that live music and bands are still more entrenched here as compared to
say the UK where DJ culture has become the mainstream, so I'm thinking
that a lot of interesting future developments in this country may come
out of interesting fusions between computer music and live playing,
singing, or MCing.
John
Anne Whillance wrote:
quoted 67 lines I think here are a number of factors which come into play
>I think here are a number of factors which come into play
>in regards to how interesting a live idm show will be. This is
>a style of music which is often difficult to recreate in a live
>context, therefore a large number of artists will use pre-made
>clips of their music when playing live. Another thing to
>consider is context, meaning that these are not rock shows
>where the lead singer stops to talk to the audience while the
>band tunes up for the next song, but partys where the live
>PAs are competing with DJs who can effortlessly chain together
>records.
>It would be nice if some idm artists would look at more
>conventional acts like Orbital and take notes, because
>even though I personally find their music a little bland,
>their live sets are still interesting to watch.
>But I wouldn't want to generalize and say that all idm acts
>only use laptops live, as people like Solvent, Kevin Blechdom,
>and David Kristian all seem to incorporate a lot of live playing
>into their sets.
>
>I would definately drive a long way to see Squarepusher play
>his bass or Mike Paradinas look busy over a stack of
>keyboards.
>
>Hopefully, this will not turn into a big mess.
>
>Anne :)
>
>
>
>John Counts <polycyclicism@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Now listen, I don't want to revive that whole mess
>about whether or not "live" electronica is boring or
>great or whatever. That was one serious bomb of a
>thread. At first, I was excited that Mu-Ziq,
>Squarepusher, and others were on an American tour.
>But, Jesus, it seems as though Squarepusher live just
>destroys skulls with processed feedback and drops
>verbatim clips from Go Plastic and such. The new
>Mu-Ziq...well, parts of it are fucking great:
>particularly "Meinheld" and "AEC Merlin." However,
>part of me is sad that Paradinas isn't bringing
>something fresh like he did with Lunatic Harness or
>even Full Sunken Breaks. The bulk of Bilious Paths is
>the same Cubase/Hyperprism/Audiomulch inventory check
>of plug-ins with a few glimmers of the melodic
>signature of Mike P. Anyway, can someone convince me
>that it would be worth the drive, money, and effort? I
>really want to have faith here. Respond freely to
>anything I said.
>Counts
>
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