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Subject: Live techniques?
Original Message Date: 20-Jan-02 @ 09:36 AM - Live techniques?
Ape
Message 51/65 20-Mar-02 @ 04:40 AM - RE: Live techniques?
marianimal - methinks we're watching change... more and more people doing music are either "born into" the electronic era or they're adjusting. Hence, electronic and acoustic musos are blurring traditional lines that used to separate them. I come from a bluegrass background, obviously all acoustic, then to rock, metal, and eventually electronic.... kind of a progression, so I have no issues with having a mixed bag of acoustic and electronic bits... I just wish more venues knew how to handle live acts properly. Still, you just keep hammerin,' one nail at a time.
Peace
Message 52/65 20-Mar-02 @ 06:51 AM - RE: Live techniques?
Sitar, that's a good point about writing a track as if it were already a live situation. They often seem to flow better that way, becoming full without being cluttered.
Message 53/65 20-Mar-02 @ 12:17 PM - RE: Live techniques?
Shit I really miss playing Jazz, but it just doesn't pay, or move the crowd the same way. I'm hoping that interfaces will improve shortly, and facilitate better integration of live interaction with the gear. Knobs, buttons and sliders are cute and all, but man o man, if I could really play the music I've got crawling around in my head for you folks.... I guess that's it, though; trying to do the impossible, and all of these expressions are just rough approximations of the feelings we are really trying to express (maybe not all of us). Whatever tools one needs to express, do it.
Spawn, I feel you are part right about the track thing. I find that I start as master and end as servant, and it's certainly the sounds that tell me where they go. There's an old saying that goes something like 'For the Novice, the paths are limitless, for the Master, they are but few.' I'm no Master as of yet, but I certainly see the logic therein.
Sitar,
Do what feels good.
Kick ass, people. Let's keep this live thing alive, and se if we can't push things forward a little more.
Ape
Message 54/65 20-Mar-02 @ 12:50 PM - RE: Live techniques?
Message 55/65 20-Mar-02 @ 01:13 PM - RE: Live techniques?
Ape
Got a gig for me?
;)
Message 57/65 27-Mar-02 @ 02:12 AM - RE: Live techniques?
i am currently putting together a set using a RM1X, a sampler, an EA1, an ES1, and a multi FX unit going into a 16 channel mixer and through a compressor then out to the mains.
what i have been doing is sequencing 8-16 bar loops in the RM1X that trigger the samples and occasionally the internal sounds on the RM. i use the RM mutes and the mutes on my mixer to build and setup breakdowns and such. i also have this synced up with the korgs to mix in and out with.
i will be mixing it up a lot tempo and style wise.
around here (phoenix AZ) there aren't a lot (any that i know of) of people doing this sort of thing. also i come from a more guitar, bass, drums, background so i am not sure people will know what to make of it.
the gigs i have lined up are in places more accustomed to the standard song-based sets.
it will be interesting to see how all of this goes over.
anyway, this site has been indispensable in helping me figure out how all the parts fit together and i just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has contributed.
Message 58/65 27-Mar-02 @ 10:27 PM - RE: Live techniques?
Message 59/65 28-Mar-02 @ 05:36 PM - RE: Live techniques?
Ape
Message 60/65 28-Mar-02 @ 07:34 PM - RE: Live techniques?
actually, the guys that run the club i work at now are opening up a larger venue next month. they were doing larger shows (700-1500 capacity) outside in the parking lot, but the overhead is too much. mostly "alternative" rock kind of stuff but they have had shows like the chemical bros.,hip hop, and bluegrass stuff (not all at once).
anyway, with this new place i am going to try talk them into putting on some shows geared more towards the electronic-dj-dance-vibe so maybe in a few months...
and you could all crash at my house
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