February 17, 2010 - Possible Future Live Show?

A live performance of my music is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but haven’t because I always ran into some issue that put it on hold. Some of the issues were technical in nature, such as finding the right software so I could play both hardware and software synths live while still processing their sound in real time. Others were more of a question of what the performance would consist of to keep things interesting since I would be the only one on stage. But in the past few weeks I’ve stumbled, almost accidentally, onto quite a few solutions. In short, I think the first live performance for Partition 36 might be in the semi-near future.

What I’m looking at doing is performing a piece of each song live against a backing track, singing lyrics where appropriate and modifying parts of the song in real time. So a super simple example might be where I play the melody while the rest of the track plays off the computer. Meanwhile a sort of real-time video show will be going on behind me on a screen (not sure if I can do much control of this in real time yet or not, but I know for sure it reacts to the music).

I think what I’ll end up doing first is a test performance of three to four songs in my basement among friends, that way I can see what works and what doesn’t (I guess I’m an engineer at heart). There’s still some hardware I need to purchase before I can do this though, and I’ll also need to prepare the songs for live use, but I hope to have this test performance done by the start of summer.

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