Thanks, man. it went really well. There were no major fuck ups, and we got very good feedback. A few people were asking how I played an entire set off such a little sampler. I just told them that the 404 is magical tool and once you harness it's powers you can do anything you want.

Ha ha.... it IS magic!

Any recordings of the show?

Unfortunatley not. It was my first show where I played the beats live, and I didn't know if it was going to go well or horribly wrong, so I decided to just do the show, and then try and record the next one. Everyone was digging it so I'm sure we'll be playing again at some point and I'll try to get it recorded.

Cool..... I'd like to see/hear it.

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glad it went well

I see, so what do you find is hardest thing to transfer from the recording/ideas process to the live playing situations?

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For me it was not fucking up. If I'm just coming up with ideas/recording shit, I'm usually by myself, and I can take all the time I need. If I fuck up a pattern or something, I can just start over. No big deal. If you mess up live, you can't really be like "oh shit, sorry, lemme start over" so you have to adapt and just roll with it.

well, previously, i'd multitrack "backing tracks", output them to mini disc, and play over them live. its all my stuff, but its more static - live guitar and vox, but everything else was as-built, from the computer.

now that i'm using hardware more dynamically, i'm triggering stuff live, changing up arrangements, generally twisting and stretching the stuff i've loaded onto the sampler/looper. as i practice, i find new arrangement ideas, harmonic ideas, tones, textures, timbres, etc., that i didn't necessarily find when playing over stuff i'd build w/ the 'phones on in front of the pc. it feels more vital, even tho i still was feeling what i built on the pc. if you follow.

again tho, this is for a solo thing. i know from being an audience member at other solo performances that i LOVE seeing how the artist builds their tracks, so i've shifted to trying to show this too. the trade off is that its a lot less stable, so the fuckuppery mentioned by others is an ish as well. but i fink its working. its certainly more fun to write in this way (for me).