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HEY GUYS
so this whole thread is a little tl;dr but i read a post or two (hi james), and i felt that i should reply
I may or may not have been seen posting tweets such as
https://twitter.com/pixls/status/280173238515015680
and
https://twitter.com/pixls/status/280175195845697537

I absolutely meant what I said. Streaming a performance can be really awesome, and is totally cool do at least once in a while. However, streaming a whole host of artists as some kind of webshow seems kind of silly. Streamed sets are really neat for sharing some new music, or just kind of playing music for people who wouldn't get to hear it otherwise, but making it into a show kind of misses the point of a live show I think. At an actual live event there's this unique kind of relationship between the performer and the crowd. While that relationship can exist in a slightly different way in a stream, because of the nature of the medium, it requires that they be reading comments that come in and be responding in the stream, or respond in the comments. Doing either of those, even just reading comments, will detract from any kind of performance. To manage this you see a couple of different approaches. Indifference to the crowd, so there is more of a performance; a kind of medium balance, which leads to a silly kind of attempt at replying or acknowledging comments while also giving some kind of performance; or the sit-at-desk-with-your-music-playing, which leads to a very direct relationship with the viewers, but also means no real performance, even if they are doing live-mode whatever kind of stuff. This all makes streaming seem like kind of a silly platform for a show replacement. Sure, it's cool for sharing some music, or just playing some new music, one time Mr. Spastic decided to stream some music he hadn't released late at night one time, and getting to see that was awesome. But at the same time, when you have all of these "webshows" happening that treat themselves like big events, it really just feels a little silly.

I probably have more to say about this, but this is already too long, basically streaming is neat, but it not a supplement for an actual show by any stretch.

God, I'd love to see IAYD live again, especially with his sick new jams, last time I saw him was at a blip 09 afterparty.

micro hisses pretty bad, i've taken to (when using nanoloop 2.x) using the micro for composition but then using something else for recording. i think i remember people saying the DS lite had the best sound but I just use an old GBA because that's what i have.

i think i had a pretty cool birthday B-)

thnx u

this is so good. saw them do a goblin set at a halloween house party once and it was amazing.