Re: Using pre-recorded material in performance

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

For a while I was doing hybred dj/live loop shows where about half of 
the loopage was prerecorded and triggered inside of "live" and the 
other half was a keyboard looped using PSP42 vst plugin.  I got great 
responses, but stopped doing that show... because I just didn't like 
doing it.  Sure, it was easier in many ways... but do I want it easy?

Last night the beatboxer Kid Beyond also used backing loops triggered 
in Live.  It was a really great show on ever level.  I think if your 
music and performance is good, it really doesn't matter if you can get 
behind it.  If you feel like a cheat doing it, you probably are.

Mark

On Aug 7, 2004, at 4:31 PM, Travis Hartnett wrote:

> I'm curious as to how many people are using some form of pre-recorded 
> material when they play out, and what the audience response has been.  
> I know that some people assume that I'm playing over backing tracks 
> from a CD or something similar when I play (I don't), but I've never 
> heard anything negative from them about that idea (maybe the ones who 
> disapprove just don't talk to me).  They're always a bit surprised 
> when I explain how it's all Live Looping, and sometimes I'll do a tune 
> that's a combination performance and talked-through demonstration on 
> how it works.  A friend of mine has been doing open mics recently, 
> playing live guitar over a CD-R of backing tracks that he'd recorded 
> (he's got a Johnson amp simulator, a Tascam CD player and a little 
> mixer all mounted on a music stand when he plays, so it's just one 
> cable out to the sound guy), and the musician's union has yet to bust 
> him (joke), and it aroused my curiousity as to how widespread this 
> sort of thing is outside karaoke bars.
>
> TravisH
>