One of my goals is not only to be a producer– not only to be a dj– but to be a music performer. I want to perform my electronic music live to audiences. One of the aspects of DJing I want to bring into a live performance is the continual movement, morphing, and transition of music.
Instead of DJing a bunch of records together I would like to mash up my own sounds in Ableton Live! and apply real-time tweaking of FX, mixing, live instrumentation and synthesis to produce the most live performance I can to an audience. In order to achieve this I have to re-think how I am producing music on a day to day level.
While I will continue to produce albums that contain separate songs in the tracklist, I am moving towards another artform that allows me to produce samples that I can then use in an Ableton Live! template to freestyle a production set.
Using the equipment I have now (which is one of the requirements for this exercise, since I don’t have much of a budget to work with at the moment), I am coming up with the plans to employ Ableton Live! as the center piece of my operations.
Here’s a rough Google Presentation translated from some sketches I made in my notebook over coffee this morning.
I am thinking about using my Korg padKontrol’s channels as triggers for samples in Ableton Live!. This will allow me to have start/stop abilities over numerous scenes. Add in my Bitstream PRO’s 8 sliders for volume on each lane, and knobs for sends to A/B/C and PAN effects and we have a lovely little set up here. I just realized, though, that I really would like to have my EQ kills available for use… hmmm.
That’s all for now.