Re: Not Underestimating an Audiences Ability to Understand our Process

[David Beardsley <db@biink.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Per Boysen" <per@boysen.se>

> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: Stuart Wyatt (Solo String Project)
>
> > People have come up to me after my performances and asked "So did you
> > compose the
> > backing CD yourself?".... or "Why are you pressing those
> > buttons on the floor when I play?".
>
>
> He, he... I have been asked the same questions at gigs ;-)  But last
> week when I performed twice a day at a music fair (both biz and public)
> I was prepared and started every show with a short speech. Standing by a
> stage mic and my midi foot controller, with a saxophone hanging around
> my neck, I told the audience that "nothing you're going to hear is pre
> recorded / I will create any sound you'll hear with this sax and this
> guitar (Stratocaster lying on the floor by my feet), I will record parts
> of what I'm playing and use my feet to cut those audio slices into new
> music while playing new stuff o top of that". I also said that "I'm
> using two loop samplers, an Echoplex and a Repeater" and then finally
> "I'm going to improvise music but of course you can as well use loopers
> as a tool for composing or performing "normal" music". And then I played
> for ten to fifteen minutes.
>
> Quite often I got the reaction from someone in the audience: "Hey, you
> should have been recording that!" so I guess no one took it for a
> backing CD ;-) But I had made a clear point in emptying the memories of
> both loopers after each song ("now that music is gone for ever... unless
> some of you were not bootlegging it", stepping the DELETE ALL LOOPS
> button).

I never have to explain about the looping. People are more interested
in my guitars and the music. Once in a while they ask about the pedals,
but never about looping.

* David Beardsley
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