Re: technology in performance (a bit OT)

[lenka lichtenberg <lenkal...>]

thanks everybody for your input on this. i guess it's now mainly a question of 
taste.personally,  i'm not saying budget, because, like Mary,  i'd also prefer 
a lesser sound -produced by a smaller live group- over a huge, perfect sound, 
augmented by prerecorded/MIDI, what have you. when i played in a duo on 
cruiseships, we used prerecorded tracks, 3 synths and all. Nobody cared as they 
all danced. That was 1987 and that was not "art", i don't think. I still use 
the synth and its marvelous rhythms in the odd less paying private solo gig 
when nobody knows my name too well. However, trying to play the synth at the 
ashkenaz festival 6 years ago (old habit, i guess) was a definite "NO!", so i 
was under the impression that our little corner of world music, at least in 
major concert situations, did not go along with these developments elsewhere. 
lenka
lenka lichtenberg, singer-songwriter, yiddish and world music performer. for 
mp3s, audio clips and performance updates, visit www.lenkalichtenberg.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: david lowther 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:50 AM
  Subject: Re: technology in performance (a bit OT)


  If I want to hear recorded music I'll buy a CD.  What I want when I go to a 
concert is LIVE music and I feel cheated when there's some taped stuff included 
in the performance.  I guess this sounds pretty blunt but I've been cheated a 
few times now and don't like this growing trend.  Give me live mistakes, a few 
reed squawks and missed notes any day.

  Mary