Re: Case against laptops

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

I think there's been some thread creep here.  There are people who use
the laptop as their sound generator onstage, without plugging in a
guitar, keyboard or what have you.  These are the boring performances
I was referring to in my posts.

Although, I do wince when I see someone with a traditional instrument
and a laptop onstage, just because (in my experience as an audience
member) it more often then not acts as an attention magnet for the
musician in question.

TH

On 6/22/07, Stefan Tiedje <Stefan-Tiedje@addcom.de> wrote:


>
> The laptop itself is not the instrument, its HOW you control it. I don't
> see any difference between a horn player with a set of stomp box
> loopers, and a horn player with a foot pedal controlling a laptop. What
> in this scenario could be a case against laptops?