Is it socially unacceptable to play live...

yeah, but that's part of the virtue of electronic music. way more thought is required to set-up a live performance.

and btw, the whole "people won't know that i'm doing a shit job" argument doesn't work for me.

it's a fucking lie. go lip sync with madonna and britney you hack.

(hahaha, man that was a good overreaction)

Ok, ok, angry boys. I guess now I don't make my own music either if I don't "perform" well.

But really, this shouldn't get to four pages, so I'm not gonna really say anything else. Thanks for the replies, I think.

i was just saying that your "performance" is quite analogous to lip-syncing.

i think it's fine if the audience is there for electronic music - if they're not, they'll just think that there is some background music playing or something. it happened to me a few times, most notably at a 'metal vs electro' night, where electronic artists played for 15 minutes in between deathmetal bands. i played glitchy gabba stuff for about 10 mins and then a band started doing a soundcheck over the top of my set, heh.

i say do it, but put on a show.. i dunno, maybe get a few of your friends up on stage with toy keyboards or something.

i can make a hell of a lot of noise live. i'd just be more worried about the theatre and interaction parts. as amusing as i am on here, in person i can be like speaking to a twelve year old

just get drunk. works for me. last time i played a gig i got really drunk and shouted at the audience while weekend at bernies played on the cinema screen behind me. oh and i wore a suit

and yes, the people in the front row were getting naked while i was playing.

  modey said:

you look mildly demonic in this photograph

i'm going to offer a few suggestions:

*Make a banner with your myspace: you get attention this way

*Do something interactive musically: you cant fool people, they are going to know if ur playing solitaire or not

*Interact with the audience somehow: remember, these battle of the bands type things are popularity contests

  HYPERFUKBOT said:

you look mildly demonic in this photograph

that's because I AM!!

  HYPERFUKBOT said:

  modey said:

you look mildly demonic in this photograph

+

NOOO!!

someone else said i look like elijah wood ITS NOT TRUE!!

Who's the naked guy?

that's one of my friends, him and another guy were on pills and getting naked. at one stage he came up to the table that I had my equipment on and said "look i'll do a typical trance dj move", unzipped his pants and pulled out his dick. it was a lol, in a "NO NO PUT IT AWAY" kind of way.

Friend of mine used to play his Casiotone with his wang. Glad I wasn't in that band.

  modey said:

just get drunk. works for me.

then i'm like an eight year old

  Vegeta897 said:

Don't you think you'd feel stupid just sitting there? If anything it would make rock fans hate electronic music even more

"Man that electro shit, all you do is spend 70 hours in your room in front of a monitor and program, where's the spirit, where's the fun" You'll just perpetuate that stereotype.

 

Also, I'm in agreement with the "guitar for drum machines" quote's epicness.

dude you are so gay. fuck off with all your gayness right now.

  modey said:

i played glitchy gabba stuff for about 10 mins and then a band started doing a soundcheck over the top of my set, heh.

lol this sounds like a scene from the electronic music spinal tap... we need an electronic music version of spinal tap.

this is a great thread. on the one hand it is analogous to lip-synching like blicero mentioned... but on the on the other one who really gives a fuck in this case (electronic at a B of Bands)?? i think you should just tell everybody to go fuck themselves and hit the play button. then skip ahead and skip back in the song randomly! or just control the bpm. or sample the previous band and play at 10 bpm in the background of your song. or just add a better beat to one of the bands and sing "lame lame sufjan stevens bands..." throughout the songs.

or learn how to muck about to make it fun for you to do live shows.

chances are that you should just play and have fun. what the crowd thinks (and what some disgruntled electronic musicians on forums think) is all irrelevant. why the fuck should you care? ive seen a guy play a show with an sm58 and 15 guitar pedals and rocked so hard that his show was over when all the cables came ripping out. needless to say it was awesome. music is about mistakes go out and make them and hopefully someone will appreciate that.

I played the mentioned event and it went down well. :)

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nice one! next live set i play i'm gonna use a cheese grater.

and nothing else.

don't worry about it, but if you have time, try a setup similar to this:

get a copy of ableton live

cut your .wavs into 8 or 16 bar loops. set them up to work with the crossfader.

make some new persussion/fx tracks - track mutes linked to a keyboard

put an eq on the bass, set the controller range from 40Hz to 150Hz - you can change the bass on the fly

put some kind of limiter on the master track, but give yourself plenty of headroom - boost the volume on the hardware mixer.

link to your controller/keyboard and jam away.

It's much nicer (for you, for 95% of the audience it won't make any difference!) when you have some input into it.

i was invited to play somewhere in 1 months time, but i havent even written 5 seconds of music yet because im a bit too stupid to work out the hardware efficiently (so i said no), but i was just gonna stand behind a table in a full lacoste tracksuit and have a full on, emmbarrasing hard rave to my music. i thought that would be more of a live interaction than playing everything realtime.

i think if i can scrape together a 30 minute set of shitty gabba ardcore in the next month i will play this actually, it sounds like more and more fun the more i think about it.

ahahah! do it!