Re: [microsound] Re: livecoding

[alex <alex@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 12:30 -0400, aleks vasic wrote:
> Your average Joe is going 
> to have a harder time following a live performance by an electronic 
> artist who sits behind the screen of his laptop multitasking between 
> software, twiddles knobs on various controllers, effect peddles/decks, 
> blah blah blah.  A live electronic show(for lack of a better 
> description) alienates the audience much more then a traditional DJ 
> does.  

I take your point, but this is what livecoders are trying to get around
by showing their screens and letting the audience see some of the
movement behind the process.  This is trying to open up to the audience,
not alienate them.  

Some livecoders think it's better if the audience can follow the code,
other livecoders think the code is a distraction from the music and so
try to obscure it, for example by superimposing the images from two
screens.  In our experience (as slub) if we project our screens the
audience stare at the projections instead of dancing, which kind of
breaks the whole point of making dance music.  So we fall into the
latter camp.  It's a difficult problem though.

The other answer is to not have an audience in the traditional sense and
just make music for your own fun.



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