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13, April 2009
happy easter everyone that celebrates easter!
some of us went home for easter, i’m in maryland. holidays are great.
been working on a mix for annie mac a lot lately that takes all the seperate tracks from the new album and remixing them into a 5 minute mini-mix. then i’m gonna sync 5 minutes of visuals to that and it’s gonna be out probably sometime in may right before the album comes. i’m really excited about it, i will try my best to not make it boring and amateur.
back to boston in the a.m. and back to reheasals. i think things are going a lot better now, we have 7 of the new songs down and the rest will come together.
we debate a lot about whether using a laptop is responsible in our live show. ayad is convinced i have ruined every show ever because of laptop and audio interface problems. it paramounted in austin when the shaky stage kept making my firewaire cables come loose and killing the drum machine and i was so delirious form the heat i threw my computer and knocked over my snare in the process. it’s never been the same since then… i’m pretty sure it’s only been a few shows and that the hiccups were my fault, not the computer’s, i mean, thousands of bands realy on a laptop every night. granted, ayad is right, a really rich band get’s pro tools HD and taxes less of the computer’s CPU. stewart copeland even uses a complete mac tower and digital performer rig, which maybe makes sense since i use a motu interface. ugh, i wish soundsystems could just listen to our minds, things would be so much more reliable and so much more boring/annoying.
on a somewhat related note, ableton live 8 is completely brilliant. nothing huge has changed but the whole zoom thing and grouping and new warping algorithm sounds sooo good. i just need to get plogue bidule up and running again and i think i could disappear for 5 years with a computer and speakers and be the happiest person on the planet.
have a good nite innernets.
okay that clears it up, it’s nate writing. took me long enough to figure out.
happy easter to you and the rest of the band!
when you threw your computer did it not break?
dont lie, you only like Live 8 because of the vocoder
laptops on stage LOOK super lame.
what you use as your tools to make music shouldn’t matter, as long as it gets a job done.
presentation does. i’d prefer not to see an actual computer. it makes people think that most stuff they’re hearing isnt being played live. it’s like when a rock band has trun tables on stage. you instantly think they’re limp bizkit. even if they are doing something insanely cool and ground breaking.
figure out a different interface for a laptop rather than keyboard and mouse. if you have a whack-a-mole on stage and used a mallet to trigger midi-events to start the backing track that would be way cooler than your index finger. there’s nothing skillful about point and click.