Re: Re: [microsound] laptop as a performance device.

[trommer@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

 Giving a few visual cues helps
> with this. 

errr....like what ? grandiose keith emerson-ish keystrokes ? i don't see the point in artificially creating visual cues for people who aren't used to watching laptop performances...seems silly.

(...though thinking about different possibilities makes me giggle).

the fact is that many concerts i've seen don't really involve all that much in terms of actual gesture...with the exception of late '70's van halen, perhaps.

i went to a chamber music concert last week that offered very little in terms of visual simulation, but i enjoyed it. 

all live performances (should) involve a kind of real-time interaction, and therefore an element of risk...beyond that i don't think it matters if you're playing a laptop, a piano or a rubber band.

i kind of wonder if this discussion actually means to focus the amount of pre-programming that a laptop permits, which in my opinion is peripheral (though still relevant) to the issue of the laptop's merit as a performance tool.





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