Re: [microsound] Re: on working methods for live performance

[Massimiliano Viel <mail@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> For me as an audience member, the turnoff behind
> laptop performance isn't the lack of showiness. It's
> the gradual loss of faith that what you're hearing is
> being created "live". Watching a laptop performer, you
> don't really know to what degree he's creating the
> music in real time. He might be just hitting "play" on
> some audio file or automated process, or he might not
> be. You don't know. I feel the same way about
> instrument players who use prerecorded tracks and drum
> machine programs as background for solos.

Personally, I try to overcome this situation, by using the real-time 
manipulation of the "program" that generates the audio stuff on the 
laptop, as part of the "show", projecting it as the visual side of 
the performance. In this way there is an identity act between what 
you see and what you hear, and the action that physically "moves" the 
sound (through the keyboard/mouse), is also, in a way, the moved 
sound on screen...
Of course I'm not doing it with some MSP or Logic, but with an 
expressly designed interface (it's actually Flash, forced to be a 
synthesizer).
Still, this is a work in progress, as even if I realized a couple of 
versions it is still under development.

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