RE: [microsound] Performing "Live"

[a listener <a_listener23@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I play a laptop and a Nord Modular live. Mostly MAX/msp on the laptop. .  I
improvise quite a bit and max is really the best platform for designing your
own "environments" to improvise within.  For my last show I made a set list.
..  but the space and the crowd's reaction made it too confining to
stick-too.

I use the Nord as an accent some times, playing with the laptop, but mostly
its something to mix to wile I change patches in max. . .

I think that I am going to re-write most of my max programs so that I can
switch between them without mixing to the Nord. . . (the simpler the set-up
the better).

My opinion about playing live is that if you are not actually doing
something (more than FX tweaking) and don't have enough flexibility in your
set up /playing method to react to the environment or crowd than I would not
recommend playing live. Not to be discouraging its just that Live should be
live. . .I think that you are cheating yourself if it is not really "live"
(whatever live in quotas means).

Bye bye
v(ance)stevenson.