Playing Live Electronic Muisc

Yeah, seriously. It's no fun if things can't go a bit wrong. Just get your shit down beforehand and practise a lot

if you're uncomfortable controlling the whole thing, make all the essential parts run automagically and tweak some extra stuff/EQ everything. whatever happens though DO NOT acknowledge the crowd in any way. look at them with contempt until they realize you are a clearly better person than them, and then mock them with more contemptuous staring until the end of your set. converse normally after your gear is all packed away.

I always found Reason far too crashy to attempt to play live gigs with. There's nothing like standing on a stage with hundreds of people staring up at you and your DAW freaking out and not working to make you wanna go back to beating sticks against hollow logs instead of ever relying on technology ever again. I mean, at least in the old analogue days if your Moog went out of whack you could explain "I'm tuning my oscillators!" and people would nod and think you were clever unlike pounding ctrl-alt-delete repeatedly onstage.

Back when I used to play live, I got a bunch of girls to put on dresses and dance around in front of me so people would have something to look at instead of just staring at the nerd checking their email and twiddling knobs. It worked well. I used to send them out to do interviews for me as well, which was really great.

Have fun with it. It's a performance, not a recital.

GET A CAPE

Take some tips from Sabrepulse -

[youtubehd]svNJ9uKS-lo[/youtubehd]

does anyone here dj with a laptop?

i have always wondered how much of laptop/assited dj-ing is prefabricated versus actually mixed on the fly?

i ask because i have good taste in music and have managed to pre-fabricate transitions and glitchery on the laptop, and i've even practiced switching between the laptop and actual records i have on a single turntaqble... but i want to know how much "professional" or "real" djs actually do live versus using the actual tracks and their "aura of coolness" as a dj to just PLAY music as opposed to PLAYING music.

i do consider pure-bred DJing an artform, such as andy c. or grooverider or more traditional dance music DJs. it seems nowadays that pure-bred DJing is more of a specialized artform and most Djs can get away with "cheating" with the assistance of laptops. especially if they're a good-looking girl :)

I use a laptop and a numark stealth control for djing...I wish I had more hardware, but it's all I can afford at the moment, and it does the trick for now

It's all a means to an end IMO, nothing more.

If you turn up, play an amazing set, get the whole crowd going, and generally make the party better as a result, then you've done a good job, regardless what tools or techniques used.

Personaly I like to have a lot to do for my live sets. Keeps me busy, and gives me lots of flexibilty and options of where to got with the music. Not to mention that I loose concentration if Im just cueing up tracks. I am also very interested in what people do for their sets, I think that with the power of computers and programs today, the possibility is there for some truely remarkable performance ideas, and very original approaches.

But really its high geekery, which rarely has much to do with the potency of your set.

It can all depend on the type of event. Your semi generative gestural live performance piece might be the cleverset thing since the Field Equations, and performing it in the right type of party will surely excite a lot of people. But in a club with a bunch of people wanting to 'ave it are going to be less impressed. And the opposite applies also.

  On 1/18/2010 at 11:55 PM, placidburp said:

Take some tips from Sabrepulse -

 

[youtubehd]svNJ9uKS-lo[/youtubehd]

 

that clip made me angry. what utter shit.

Haha! I'm playing at a festival in April and Sabrepulse is on the same stage as me - I hope I don't have to follow on from him...

  On 1/18/2010 at 11:55 PM, placidburp said:

Take some tips from Sabrepulse -

 

[youtubehd]svNJ9uKS-lo[/youtubehd]

 

I kept waiting for the Justice-style reveal where it turned out the controller wasn't even plugged in at all*?

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*yes yes I know that's not what happened really but it remains funny

I've always wondered what vst those ableton users use with their midi controllers.

Is it dblue glitch or effectrix?

good live electronics is simply an 808 straight into PA.

edit: best.

  On 1/20/2010 at 5:39 PM, Glass Plate said:

good live electronics is simply an 808 straight into PA.

 

edit: best.

I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not (it's sometimes hard to tell with you mr.) but goddamn there's a lot of truth in that. That's the reason why the 808 is my fave.

lol, my first and only show was me tweaking tracks in buzz live and then fading into tracks on a tape player that had the wrong power supply so it played too slow but it was still pretty cool.