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Re: Practice, rehearse, perform
What isn't real? That's my question. Even a tab of acid creates some
real effect... even if only
for the user. Is a hallucination any less real than a video or film
image? Do you think that's
air your breathing? Hmmm?
Which brings me to visuals. I hate to say it, but I must admit there's
little worse than watching
someone on stage twiddle knobs. I left an electronic music festival when
a guy got up and started
futzing around with a laptop. The techno music that was coming from the
PA could have been from a
CD for all I knew, or cared.
Inversely, I seem to enjoy some forms of music live (reggae, blues) while
not liking them much on
CD. Not sure why.
I know I'm one of those people that just don't put on a very good
performance. So I usually let a
video do that work for me. Nice little illusion video is, and projectors
are getting nicer and
cheaper. Plus, you can do a lot of neat MIDI controlled video tricks
these days.
Mark Sottilaro
jim palmer wrote:
> > >
> > > so why don't you just buy the video?
> >
> > I like improvisation, and I like something real.
> >