Re: video during shows

[Wyatt <gunfight@theokcorral.net>]

I have seen a few people do this sort of thing in shows and it is pretty
cool. The best one I saw was a guy patching live in MaxMSP. Everything
you saw, you heard. Of course that is not exactly going to be exciting
for everyone.

The only thing I would add though, is make sure you test it before you
try it. Laptop video cards sometimes lack the power to be able to
display 2 screens or even a mirror of one screen without some CPU hit.


-A




Charles Winters wrote:
> Good idea Warren.  I say go for it.  There is a long history of people 
> projecting images on screens during music concerts, usually with some 
> sort of synchronization of the image with the music.  You idea of 
> showing the software GUI is a novel one and not without its risks.  My 
> son John often performs his acoustic guitar music along with a laptop 
> running Ableton Live, but he makes a point of orienting the laptop so 
> the audience cannot see the screen.  The audience's perception of him 
> playing the guitar and occasionally working the midi keyboard, the foot 
> controller and the mouse while the music unfolds creates feelings of 
> wonder and mystery.  Seeing the computer screen would detract from that 
> effect and break the spell, he maintains.
> 
> Instead, his (or maybe my) ambition is to augment his regular 
> performance with an ordinary LCD projector, hooked up to his laptop, 
> projecting the images his music makes through the standard iTunes 
> player.  iTunes has the best visualizer app I've yet seen, vastly 
> superior to the one bundled with WMPlayer.   I imagine the end result 
> will be a modern version of what Bill Graham used to provide for rock 
> bands at the old Avalon Ballroom in SF. Downright hypnotic. - CW
> www.johnwinters.biz
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Sirota" 
><wsirota@wsdesigns.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 5:09 AM
> Subject: RE: video during shows -- (was: Re: stumbling around in the 
> dark.....)
> 
> 
>> I have a question I've been asking myself about this. I'm performing 
>> at the
>> Monkey next month, and it has a projection video screen. I've been 
>> wondering
>> whether to duplicate my laptop display to the screen, showing the 
>looping
>> software interface. I think it would be kind of cool - in a way, it's 
>> like a
>> "form-follows-function", Bauhaus kind of thing to do. OTOH, maybe that's
>> just a distraction from the music, and I shouldn't overplay the 
>> intellectual
>> aspects of what's going on onstage. After all, I'm not showing a display
>> designed to be a piece of art, it's more like watching the inner 
>> workings of
>> watch. It will, though, have an obvious synchronization with sonic and
>> physical (footcontroller presses, etc) events. Opinions?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Warren Sirota
>>
>