Re: cheating

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Well, I've got to disagree with this one.  I saw a guy (that's how 
memorable he
was to me) play at an experimental music series at Cell Space in SF.  He 
was doing
very dance/techno stuff all by his lonesome on a laptop.  I was snoozing 
after
about a minute.  His music wasn't bad at all, but frankly, it would have 
been a
better performance if he'd just handed out a cd to us.

Now, I know that with all my switching from bass to guitar, and screwing 
with drum
machines and keyboards, and various other devices, I am no party to watch. 
 So,
what I do is augment my performances with slides and midi triggered video
projections.  If I can't do that,  I try to play gigs like art openings, 
where I
am not the visual focus.  My pal Jason Mombert (who should be on this 
list) and I
used to just pick movies (Tron was one of our favorites) and project them, 
taking
bits of the soundtrack and utilizing it.  It seemed to work pretty well.

Mark Sottilaro

Heyoka_face_eater wrote:

> But lets not get too muso about this, as someone else said its about a
> "Show"  and as long as the "show" is good to watch, I don't really care 
>if
> its a guy sat behind a laptop!
>
> - Aphex Twin did this when I saw him live in MSP... brother laid down on
> his bally and played the whoel show from his laptop that way. Had some
> peple dressed up as dancing bears too. It was neat :) I never listened so
> intently to "dance music" in a club before :)
>
> Skid Row forever!
> 
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