Re: hidden from the audience

[Alex Keller <akeller@xxxxxxx>]

thanks for all the interested/interesting comments. there is something 
very difficult about expecting an audience to listen without any visual 
stimulation. like any experiment, the result you get may not be the one 
you wanted... but i can live with that. i'm really excited to see if 
the difference between low-tech hardware and high-tech software is 
apparent to the audience (or myself) without the visual cue.

having some sort of verbal and written contact with the audience in 
these situations really helps put them at ease  when they are actually 
listening. i should have some sort of program available to the audience 
and will likely say a few words about each artist before he goes on.

best

a

> As a musician I could agree with you, but as an event promoter it's a 
> bit
> difficult for the audience to follow what's happening in a space where 
> there
> only a laptop and the musician, sometime is a bit boring, some time 
> very
> boring.
>
> A good solution could be a stage built for this kind of performances, 
> using
> lights in a different way or may be a different sound design (I mean 
> where
> the pa speaker are!).
> I must say that something great happened when to the music are related 
> video
> or computer graphic, but that's not an usual project.
> May be the problem is to explain to the people what kind of 
> performance is
> going on, 'cause they simply don't follow so much the electronic music
> movement, so a well designed performance area is the solution (killing 
> all
> the black tables in the world).
>
>

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