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Airplane mode for IPad …
edit ..to highlight the point,2 mins after posting , I received a text on phone which rang bells & notifications on my ipad !
Play prepared tracks
Have lots of knobby hardware to turn.
Any time you touch a knob exaggerate the movement
Flashing lights or candles in the case of ambient also help.
Thanks all for your comments and suggestions.
Now, @tja, interesting vid for sure, but you see, you made the classic error there of confusing me and the noises I - compile - with an actual musician making actual music. In truth the steel drum and tracing paper/comb combo referred to earlier is closer in spirit to my preferred modus operandi…
Although, @hacked_to_pieces , I am also sorely tempted by your option, in particular the wavy, magical passes near-but-not-in-fact touching the gear evinced by the callow youth in the clip…
Apparently the event is planned for ‘towards the end of the year’ , so I have plenty of time to work on something, and it’ll be an interesting challenge for me whether or not in fact it goes ahead. (A dark ambient festival in Folkestone? Do you feel lucky, punk?)
So, yeah.
As Bowie memorably put it:
“You think this is easy, realism? I am a D.J., I am what I play
I've got believers
Believing in me…”
Apparently…
Paris Hilton! Wow. I heard she was a DJ but thought it was just a joke. Fake DJ seems like a good side gig for her though.
Honestly I think since most people really won't care WHAT you're doing during the performance that you can keep this as simple or as complex as you want. And since it's your first time playing live, I say keep it simple. Some people just don't enjoy playing live, so maybe wait to invest more money into it until you give it a go yourself.
You could just play a backing track for each of your songs and trigger a few sounds over the top. Or maybe have 4 loops going for each song that your crossfade between, each of a different length to keep things evolving and different. It's one of the nice things about doing ambient, you're not overly worried about perfect timing or many, many elements happening at once. Embrace that and do something that you're comfortable actually using in front of people.
FWIW I've been playing live for 25 year and I find trying to manage more than 6-8 elements at once is a PITA. And really you want to avoid getting so sucked into your gear trying to keep things flowing that you can't interact and make eye contact with the people there once in awhile.
Anyway, just saying that you don't need to go crazy learning a new app or buying new hardware. There's plenty of options with the tools you already have and know well, and often that can be more fun than stressing over something you only will use when playing live.
Also, whatever you decide on, practice setting up and tearing down at friend's house or your garage or something. Make sure you have everything you need, where it gets plugged in, and how you're going to pack it up again quickly (in the dark, usually).
@Tarekith : some excellent advice there, especially re setup & teardown. Trust me - I will be aiming for simplicity!
I last played live in 1983, (!), drummer, hiding at the back, (bitter memories of still wrestling onstage with taking down scaffolding while the singer and guitarist were at the bar lapping up the kudos, but that’s another story… ), but I have done ‘stand up short story reading’, aka ‘story slams’ a fair bit, and used to present on trans stuff in my time in the police (police = ‘tough crowd’), so I know that bit of the, ahem, ‘performance’ is under control.
It’s more gonna be a matter of reverse engineering material into its component parts so I can restitch some kind of Frankenbient from its bleeding stumps, I suspect… In other words, a totally different thing from my usual thing. Which is A Good Thing, right?
Right?
While I have no advice ( it's been 30 plus years since I played live) I'm excited for you and rooting for you!