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Most gigs I have done, I've been on the bill as 'Live P.A.'

I have no idea what the P.A. stands for. Personal Address system? However, it seems to be the nomer that is usually used for this kind of stuff, at least in the bay area.

I usually try to get billed as 'live electronica', though I am usually running more than the xl-7 - usually looping other instruments too...

bIz

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: just john 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 5:43 PM
  Subject: [xl7] What is operating this thing live CALLED?


  Okay, first:  I don't get out much, so I've never seen anybody play this
  generation of Command Stations/beatboxes/whatever in a performance.

  Laurie Anderson's show last year was the first I'd attended since
  Lollapalooza II.  (In that one, Ministry seemed to use all live players --
  at least 6.  It was a grand sound, by the way.)

  Laurie Anderson used pre-recorded sound, but I think that was just
  triggering a whole digital track per number.  But in her notes, she called
  what she was doing dj-ing.


  I know this generation of gizmos can be improvised with, live.  Normally, I
  think of my Korg ES-1 when I think of that, but especially now that 2.0 is
  here for the Command Station, one can mess it up incredibly.  (I mean "mess
  it up" in a GOOD way.)

  But what's it called?  I feel sheepish about calling it "Playing," since my
  keyboard technique is pretty crappy.

  And if it's dj-ing, then what's expected of the performer?  I normally
  think of djs using recognizable stuff from records or other sample media,
  so I don't know what the audience would be expecting from an EMU dj.


  Anybody out there feel like describing a live gig with this thing?
  ---
  * just-john@...  http://just-john.com/cn/rfe.shtml *

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