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Re: [microsound] Performing "Live"



> 
> the moment i push the button to change the groove is
> the moment i have told
> my sequencer "how to play itself" and have sequenced
> a change. this is a
> completely spontaneous "improvisatory" thing, yet it
> is very different than
> if i wasn't using a sequencer at all but was instead
> playing an instrument
> and producing the music that way.

this is a really poor point. by using the example of
switching between loops on a sequencer as your model
for the comparison you sell short the possibilities of
"improv" with computers. i could just as easily say
live classical music lacks spontinaety, because the
players in the ensemble are merely told what to do by
the composer. they don't have any say, they play what
is written. as will a computer if it is being used
merely to replicate what you have programmed into as a
composer of a piece of electronic music. 

there are many, many, many ways that a computer can be
used in live performance.... not merely as a playback
tools for various soundfiles. 


jason_

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