Maybe techno producers who do live PAs should break down and take a couple keyboard lessons? Carl Craig played some live keys when I saw his live PA, I think it was as Paperclip People.
/dave -----Original Message----- From: Dennis DeSantis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:38 AM Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: (313) ableton live 2 beta 2 out (public) Kent williams wrote: > I still don't know how to make a live electronic set truly dynamic. My > solution is to improvise it all live with live loop sampling. You have to embrace and work with the fact that there's only so "live" a live PA is going to get. The reason for this comes down to the very nature of what it is that we do when we're onstage. Instrumentalists have a completely different relationship to their instruments than MPC or laptop artists do - do an action and out comes a response; there's a one-to-one correspondance between the behavior of an instrument and the actions of its user. But if you're working with sequences, that one-to-one correspondance goes out the window. We're not setting single events in motion. Instead we're setting pre-organized chains of events in motion, and those chains often have a rhythmic relationship to one another that's quantized. This isn't a quality judgement. It's just the nature of the music. Take that quantization away and you have something that isn't really techno any more. -- Dennis DeSantis www.dennisdesantis.com
