On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, jayson b wrote:
> if i just paid ten bucks you see you i best be getting someone juggling fish
> or breaking bricks with their heads.
>
> personally, i don't 'go there' for the music. if i wanted to listen to the
> music *I* wanted to listen to, i'd do it in my basement. i come to see
> someone do something i can't, or haven't thought of.
>
> *you* are a performer. that's the 'P' on your 'pa.' playing live is a
> performance art. do something. if you do anything else feel free to sit at
> home and do that, and be a producer.
Technically, even someone who just carries in their DAT and hits play and
stands there staring out at the crowd is 'performing'.
I'm not going to take sides in the "it's all about the music" debate, but
don't say that someone who stands motionless and stares unblinkingly at a
laptop for an hour is any less of a performer than the most visible and
energetic of trick djs. They're certainly not as -good- of a performer,
but they are covered equally by the definition of the word.
I think that this would be a non-issue if people who do, for example,
laptop PAs, projected their video output on a screen behind them so you
can see what they're doing.
It's a lot more difficult giving the crowd something to look at if you're
not doing something on a flat horizontal surface. Most performers who
don't play records forget this all too often.
Now for my personal opinion: Do you have 10kW of sound in your basement?
How about a few hundred people? Yeah, I didn't think so. Give me 'Play'
on the DAT out in a condusive environment any day over armchair listening.
-j
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