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- From: pet@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (paul eng-yi tan)
- Subject: Re: Live sequence performance (was re: ...well, alsorts
- Message-ID: <pet.722073391@munagin>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1ebutdINN3ef@werple.apana.org.au> <pet.722046469@munagin> <1992Nov18.022957.16548@mel.dit.csiro.au> <9232316.10015@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:56:31 GMT
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- carl@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (Carl Brewer) writes:
- >>|> et al in a stadium situation. They have to rely heavily on sequencers and
- >>|> backing tapes. Pure is just the place for these bands. I mean the audience
- >>
- >>Erummm, bzzzzzzzzzzt!
- >>
- >>Try Carter USM. Sequenced, big tourers, large stadium players (Glastonbury,
- >>Big Day Out). They do fine.
-
- Carter isn't techno either, are they? There are stadium synth bands, notably
- DM and NO and Erasure but IMHO these bands rely on crowd fanaticism rather
- than an awesome (objectively) show. I say this as my opinion of what is a
- fact, while DM is still my favorite band.
-
- >can you really define techno as "live" music (leaving asside the issue
- >of is it "music" at all :) ). From what I've heard, it's almost
- >entirely sequenced. It may not be running from an audio tape, but is
- >it really *live* ????
-
- It's all percentage I think. DM is about 40% live, the rest of the complicated
- stuff is on tape and the vocals are live, so is the percussion and guitar
- (in those rare tracks with guitar).
-
- I suspect 808 is 90% sequenced and the rest is sampled (which means basically
- that you press the key for the loop at the beginning of each bar... very
- easy! :) Boxcar did this...)
-
- Paul
-
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