Question response 1

Last weekend I performed with a well known act that goes by the name of m83. The show was at the Wexner center for the arts, and I was the only support. I sat in the back hospitality room, being over treated with free naked smoothies, and veggetable trays. There is a television in the room that is a live feed of the main room where the performance was going to take place, it was a sold out show, meaning there were over seven hundred people waiting patiently for some entertainment. I continue to wait and eat some snacks when the door opens and a man wielding a clipboard and headset calls out "Adulture".
I begin to walk up the steps to the stage when a few patrons see a head begin to bob up walking towards the stage. An immidiate roar erupts from the crowd as what they have been waiting for is finally begining to make way. I walk up to my equipment not putting my head up, im so nervous that I don't even know what facial expression to make. So I just turn on my machiens and begin.
I performed differently this time, using more of my influences. Combining my love of house and ambiant into one groove. Sampling artists like gas and soporus and combineing them with tech house beats and progressions. Usually at a dance party or a show involving mostly that kind of music, you judge how much the crowd is into it by how hard they are dancing. You then can control the crowd; speed it up, slow it down, harder, smoother, break, hook, anything to make the crowd more receptive. This show was different, these kids didn't come to dance, they weren't there to socialize and get crazy. They were there for a performance, they wanted a show, not a party.
So I continue to play for forty-five minutes, not looking up once. So nervous that I felt as if my legs were going to buckle. As soon as im done playing, and I end with a ghostly synth line that pans itself out, the crowd goes crazy. This is so different for me thought because I have never played a show without dancing, but right after then I had tons of people come up and ask me if I was touring with m83, and that it my performance was "amazing". People who could recognize the samples I were using truely appreciated it because they knew exactly what i was doing to them, and how it got to that point. Thats why i chose the median to do what i did, I knew that people who like M83 like other similar artists that I was very influienced by and I think that is a reason why the Wexner commitee contacted me to being with.
Someone even asks me for my autograph. That felt really good, but still kind of cheesy.