Re: "Dragging Instruments Around" meets "laptop live"...

["Jesse Ray Lucas" <jlucas@neoprimitive.net>]

Interesting idea.

I have been waiting for a QWERTY virtuoso to pop up, but haven't found
him/her yet.  Write a program to map your computer keyboard keys to MIDI
notes.  A good typist, with a little practice, could seriously shred.  
Strap
on your computer keyboard like a guitar and go at it.

Can anybody recommend a computer keyboard manufacturer that supports
velocity sensitivity???

That is a joke.  Although, who knows...  I can't imagine that I am the 
first
one to think of this idea.  It seems pretty obvious.

-J




----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Wright" <armyofpie@hotmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: "Dragging Instruments Around" meets "laptop live"...


> Seeing as how if I ever perform live (not sure yet if I even want that to
> happen) A laptop or two will probably feature heavily this does bear
> thinking about.
>
> My spur of the moment Idea is to split the laptop into two parts and wear
> it.
>
> Recently a friend of mine gave me a whole lot of broken laptops (and a 
>few
> that live) which I have been dismantling as art supplies, and I have 
>found
> that it shouldn't be too hard to extend the cables so that the keyboard
hung
> down off a belt and the monitor was mounted on some sort of harness off
the
> torso, I could then move fairly freely (cables could be an issue).
>
> And as a bonus it would look cyberpunk as all get out...
>
> A thought.
>
> Will Wright