At 1/17/16 10:12 PM, Dubsyn wrote:
I feel it's because the application is weak compared to all other forms of instrumentation
Fair enough but what exactly do you base said feeling on, you have performed electronica live perhaps, or you've attended a live perfomance?
Even when you get down to the hardware, it's just pushing buttons, and far to easy to fall into weird pitfalls that are
non-existent on other mediums.
As above, based on what exactly or whom? Playing a so called playlist can, indeed, be no more then pushing play and standing around interacting with the audience. Playing actual dj while performing a liveset will already involve turning knobs and moving sliders or in the case of employing vinyl, swapping records, beatmatching and lifting. (crates are heavy)
A liveset of just electronic instruments can involve all of the above with the added bonus of switches, voltage control and cable routing and patching instruments all in real time while hopefully not missing a beat, to say nothing of accompanying musicians who may in fact be playing traditional instruments alongside or perhaps a computer is being used as an instrument rack and one is essentially doing what a keyboard player does.
I appreciate it looks easy enough when you see others doing it right but i'd challenge anyone who hasn't yet to give it a go and let us all know just what a walk in the park it supposedly is :)
What I mean to say is that the level of involvement with digitalized artwork in general is very weak.
This statement i lend more credence to since it is a sentiment that gets voiced here with some regularity, i don't get that impression myself while working but there has to be something to it since more then a few people feel this way.
And there's flavors and varieties of it, people feeling unchallenged or perhaps that they're getting away with cheating or somethign to that effect. I'm interested in this aspect.
I suppose this argument has been beaten over the heads of artists for years. How do you feel about it and how can you
see software competing live with real string instruments in the futue or even now?
I don't know, the argument seems incredibly retro to me, like the original outcry against samplers back when they still cost as much as a ferrari sports car, ask google about the introduction of the fairlight for example.
Personally i don't see them competing at all, they can be their own thing or they can compliment each other, the logic behind them being diametrically opposed i really don't follow but i take it i'm biased as i've seen them work together in harmony with nobody batting an eye at either's presence.
As an illustration, think of cgi in movies. One can have pixar style animated ones with nothing but cgi in it or one can have a regular live action flick where the cgi compliments, or plays alongside if you will, the traditional cinematic aspects.
