Patreon Exclusive: Live at Ice Box Arcade (July 2022) (Patreon)

Hi all,

This is my last performance at Ice Box Arcade. I'm making this a Patreon exclusive, and I'll tell you why!

https://youtu.be/FIU3Wuj2m2M

I didn't like the performance! I don't like performing with modular sequencers! Not ones that make you come up with sequences on the fly. 

I didn't have control over the shape of the sequences like I wanted. There's a lot of flubbing. Sometimes you get something great accidentally, and sometimes you don't. Almost all my practice sessions went better than this performance.

The TR8s helped a lot, but it wasn't enough to save it. I even tore off my vocal mic within the first 5 minutes, a core component of the sound in all practices, because I found that it was too much to try and focus on while improvising on a hot stage.

I could continue to refine this setup until it was something worth fucking with, but I don't want to. It's too much to deal with for too little return. Dance music requires razor's edge precision, and this doesn't give me that.

For live shows going forward I'll be relying on much more deterministic sequencing.