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Re: [microsound] Re: livecoding

sounds remarkably like what a dj does, except take out the screen and
replace with some decks. seriously, twiddling knobs on one piece of
hardware vs twiddling knobs on another == little difference.

For the most part a DJ's equipment is accessible to most every audience member. With all due respect there is a world of difference between making music, and playing music for others. I know there are a lot of ways to creatively dj, but you are using either a Phonograph, CD player, or MP3 player.


if you're someone like ritchie hawtin, for example, where djing is a
virtuoso exercise in making new music by never letting a record play for
more than 15 seconds without screwing with it in some way, there's a hell
of a lot of knob twiddling going on, and i bet you anything you like that
joe public has not a clue what he's doing.


I would hardly consider him an average DJ. You wont see a performance like that wherever there is a DJ.



A live electronic show(for lack of a better description)
alienates the audience much more then a traditional DJ does.

so does free jazz. i don't think the problem is that the medium alienates
the public, the problem is that the marketing is terrible.


Whats does marketing have to do with how someone in the audience perceives a performance? The point i was making is that a traditional DJ set is ON AVERAGE, FOR THE MOST PART, more accessible then an electronic performance. Mostly because a DJ's equipment is familiar to "the average joe"

I know i am making some broad generalizations. I know there is always an exception to every rule. But For the most part I believe that a DJ is much more accessible then a electronic performer/composer/whatever. Most people dont even know what electronic music/computer music is. Most people know what a DJ is. Not to disparage either. Just how i feel about the situation.

this is marketing - they need to be shown what's going on, made to feel
comfortable and secure and safe. perhaps the performances need to start
from first principles, in tiny bites. perhaps a gig night could be
structured starting with tiny little (10 minute) sets that introduce the
idea, and the epic 45 minute four-person mega feedback mess can happen
later on.. i did a show the other night where i was following on from three
guitary singer-songwriters. i livecoded pd for 10 minutes, starting with a
an empty patch and a single sine oscillator. i think they got it - well,
they cheered at the end anyway. 

erm...huh?  Serious?


aLEKs


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