5 More Days
Feb 10, 2011 Uncategorized
until we open for Christopher Jackson at his CD Release show at The Canal Room. If you’ve seen In The Heights or Freestyle Love Supreme, you know the guy’s a powerhouse. This is gonna be a great show…
Tags: Arthur and the Geniuses, live
Looking Back and Moving Forward
Dec 23, 2008 Moving
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I’ve got a show coming up on Monday the 29th. My first solo show in two years.
The last time around, I had some trouble. I couldn’t figure out how to give the songs the groove they needed by myself, so I assumed the answer was more stuff. I brought in Ableton Live. I had a set of MIDI footpedals, programmed to do different things for each song. I layered keyboard tracks live, I looped harmony vocals, I wrote a nonsense song onstage… I even beatboxed. I had a binder on stage to help me keep track of all the details. It was a disaster. I spent far too much of the show hunched over the laptop, trying not to panic.
Here are some parts that worked.
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Tags: Arthur and the Geniuses, beatbox, live, Perfect Moment, rehearsal