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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: klaus
• last name: lunde

• liveact Animation/Video Xerxes, Romeo Knight & Bendik in Concert by Brainstorm [web]
• 
  i do understand very well your concerns.. but my idea behind performing electronic music is bringing along VERY good musicians to make up for the use of laptop. to be honest.. dragging some filter knobs just for the sake of dragging them doesnt make the music any better or more interesting.. and therefore i just avoid doing just that. i take it you have never been to a pure electronica festival.. it would be a shock for you :) one man.. behind his laptop.. not doing much but presenting new mixes or versions of songs.. or just brand new material. this is expected... if you are a rock band - there are other rules, like sometimes they wear make-up.. they break guitars on stage.. that is not really my thing hehehe... i'm glad you liked the music, and i suppose we could have done a hell of a lot better on stage if we had more time to plan the gig and actually meet up to reherse a few times before standing in front of the crowd at BP.
  
  cheers man :)
• isokadded on the 2008-04-21 16:14:02
• liveact Animation/Video Xerxes, Romeo Knight & Bendik in Concert by Brainstorm [web]
• Quote:

  great music, awesome drummer
  sadly I don't dig "press space to play on Ableton Live" gigs :|
  don't get me wrong, but I mean, if you go up to play on stage, oh well... play on stage a bit...

  
  
  do you feel the same way about the conductor in orchestras..?? basically that is what i did in this gig. romeo knight and myself met 4 hours before the gig, and therefore i basically made sure everything ran smooth.. as i said earlier, i didnt want to send my 3000 dollar synth on an airplane.
  
  and finally.. i am not really that good at playing the keys anyways.. i'm not a live musician. i do what DJs do.. start and stop.. contrary to a DJ, at least i composed and produced all the music from scratch myself.. so i still feel i should have a place on stage :)
• isokadded on the 2008-04-21 14:43:22
• liveact Animation/Video Xerxes, Romeo Knight & Bendik in Concert by Brainstorm [web]
• Quote:

  Might now have been the greatest stage show ever (not that I really care) but the music is great! Thanks to the BP organizers too for getting it all together and releasing the vid (immediately ripped the audio, split it into tracks and burned a CD for my car ;) ).

  
  
  i owe you a beer.. thank you for your kindness. see you at BP 09!
• isokadded on the 2008-04-20 08:10:51
• liveact Animation/Video Xerxes, Romeo Knight & Bendik in Concert by Brainstorm [web]
• Quote:

  The whole laptop thing is more of a personal preference, I guess (I like to see sound produced as live/non-prerecorded as possible). And yes, it works much better in a big stadium with a huge light show, where noone can see shit anyway. On a small stage I much prefer "physical" action. ;)

  
  
  agreed :) i usually play some of the pad work on my virus TI.. but seeing that this piece of hardware is my life (that and beer).. i didnt feel like handing it over to ryan air :)
  
  cheers and good weekend!
• isokadded on the 2008-04-18 15:53:26
• liveact Animation/Video Xerxes, Romeo Knight & Bendik in Concert by Brainstorm [web]
• 
  fact is.. 90% of all electronica festivals / concerts today sport artists who stand behind their laptops and present their music.. and this is accepted. because it is not about the jumping around on stage high on acid, or breaking guitars and wearing scary make up. it is one hundred percent about the music itself. nothing else matters really.
  
  i can see how this doesnt work on the demoscene where the standards of live performance is of such high standards :)
• isokadded on the 2008-04-18 14:31:22
• liveact Animation/Video Xerxes, Romeo Knight & Bendik in Concert by Brainstorm [web]
• Quote:

  No stage presence whatsoever. And hiding behind a laptop never looks any good. :)
  
  (Music was pretty good though.)

  
  
  and how do you suggest we do it? have you seen kraftwerk live? four people behind laptops, and a million dollar lightshow to support it. we had two musicians playing their hearts out on stage.. yet people find something to complain about :)
• isokadded on the 2008-04-18 14:26:36
• liveact Animation/Video Xerxes, Romeo Knight & Bendik in Concert by Brainstorm [web]
• 
  hempest, thanks for making things right! i wholeheartedly agree with you in all you say about our gig not being very tight, communication being a bit off etc.. i guess this is a result of us meeting for the first time 4 hours before the show. i think that with a few hours of reharsals.. we could have pulled off something more coheseive.
  
  maybe next time :)
  
  cheers m8,
  klaus
• isokadded on the 2008-04-17 19:44:05
• liveact Animation/Video Xerxes, Romeo Knight & Bendik in Concert by Brainstorm [web]
• 
  haha xernobyl :D we didn't even know if we had time to complete our set because of the compo afterwards..
  
  so yeah... the cream of the earth remix was the encore :)
• isokadded on the 2008-04-17 17:12:22
• liveact Animation/Video Xerxes, Romeo Knight & Bendik in Concert by Brainstorm [web]
• hi hempest,
  
  i have no problem with you not liking the music. but i doubt this was your cup of tea at all, regardless of how thin or thick the music would have been. this is your thread:
  
  http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=4848
  
  you say, and i quote:
  
  
  Quote:

  Also: if you don't like the music presented in this thread, then keep your mouth shut.

  
  
  could you not have lent us the same favor? i don't understand why some people need to express their opinions about music they don't care about to begin with. you like jazz it seems, with tanned latino singers. how can we compete with that?
  
  klaus
  
  
• isokadded on the 2008-04-17 16:39:56
• liveact Wild Reyn Ouwehand live @ BP08
• 
  great gig! would like to see it again, which i will when i get home tonight :)
• rulezadded on the 2008-04-17 14:58:10