Comments on: Raw: Wii Waggling Meets the Studio – in Gustavo Bravetti + David Amo + Julio Navas

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:00:11 +0000

[...] Wii Waggling Meets the Studio – in Gustavo Bravetti + David Amo + Julio Navas (createdigitalmusic.com) – Apresentação de David Amo, Julio Navas e Gustavo Bravetti num “live” utilizando controladores dica de Wii por Affonsok; [...]

By: ernesto

ernesto — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:10:59 +0000

the link didn’t show up. here it is, Dirtyphonics Live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZjUMQdmpas

By: ernesto

ernesto — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:09:50 +0000

waoo!!! people can get in flames very quickly around here with things they like or dislike… I hope it’s for good, music is a passion driven acitivity!

1. I respect Gustavo’s work, getting a crowd like that reunited in latin america, well that’s HARDCORE! it can only be the result of hard work and perseverance.

2. Even so, I do find the wiimote stuff a bit gimmicky… but “sound” wise. But I don’t care if he does it and wave his hands at the same time, I know he’s working his act and not just putting a CD, like a trance act.

3. Yet…. I like a lot the work of this french live act called Dirtyphonics… maybe it’s my time to share it (no association with them whatsoever). They keep their hands way too busy… but find some time for a proper hand waving :D

By: middleman

middleman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:01:34 +0000

I just can’t believe that that many people are watching that. That is boring that. That that that.

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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:04:23 +0000

[...] entirely up to you. I was honestly a bit surprised by some of the impassioned critical reactions to yesterday’s brief mention of the use of the Wiimote as a studio recording. Of course, that proves the creed of the blogger – post first, ask questions later, and when [...]

By: Kassen

Kassen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:31:04 +0000

Peter,

Well, yes; I am critical of this, not in the lest because I believe CDM previously featured a similar performance by the same artist where the same gesture/controller was used so this didn’t seem especially news-worthy to me.

I’d also say that some of the comments above are phrased in ways I wouldn’t phrase them since this is actually a very hard problem. With a stage and crowd that size it becomes a real challenge to convey what is going on to the audience. I do find it a bit lazy to make your performance consist of hand-waving behind a CD player or laptop but I also recognise that when you are in front of a few thousand people hand-waving is one of the few gestures that will come across.

Here is the start of me documenting my own setup;
http://bottomfeeder.ca/top/?page_id=9

If I do say so myself; that’s taking live music quite far, but I also know very well that for venues that size I have no chance at all of making that come across to the audience in the same way that I do in smaller spots by simply putting my table on the dancefloor itself. As I noted above; I can certainly see where this angle came from but it doesn’t go far enough for my tastes.

The one solution I see is using a overhead camera and a projection screen. This seems quite obvious as a solution as it’s already quite common for singer-songwriters playing large stages. I fear that the reason why this doesn’t happen is that many electronic artists aren’t actually doing all that much on stage.

I’m certainly not deleting any bookmarks; this is a important topic for debate and experimentation for me.

By: tokoloten

tokoloten — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:53 +0000

I’m also using the Wii, but in a much noisier way… ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u3d8RG81v0

By: mauxuam

mauxuam — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:14:13 +0000

this is not techno !
not even my gradmama would dare to say that.
ye…Jeff Mills is techno ! and his dj set really rocks the house…or mr Maetrik.
I am sold…
anyone intersted in swapping a Wii with a 909 ?
:-)

By: cooptrol

cooptrol — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:26:39 +0000

I’d like to give big kudos to fellow countryman Gustavo for having made a name for himself both for his tutorials and for his musical career. Although techno is not what I like most, I respect his approach to the business and his well proven skills. He has been doing this for long in a small country like ours whose musical market is tiny, and where it’s very difficult to get something going on. Big ups Gustavo!

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:17:07 +0000

Shame the Fresco website doesn’t work…