Performers Essay

                        Performers Essay

Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris mainly plays and creates pop and disco types of music, he interacts with the crowd through using his microphone, waving gestures to them and even dancing. He plays live as well as creating music for the charts.  When he is performing live a lot of the time there is confetti falling from the sky and even light shows, and as a response has the audience jumping with excitement.

Harris uses; a MOTU 896 Digital Audio interface, an API 1608 console, a Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor, a pioneer CDJ-1000MK3, a pioneer CDJ-2000 and a Pioneer DJM-900 Nexus Mixer for producing music and for his DJ sets.

A lot of the time Calvin Harris just lets hit music play without mixing it that much as he produced the songs however he is known to use the faders on high pitch low pitch and middle pitch.
Ed Sheeran
Being an artist Ed just by performing he is interacting with the audience, through singing, clapping his hands etc, although he does perform quite a bit a lot of his songs are released online in places like Itunes, soundcloud, music stores where it is available as copies as Cd's or possibly records. 

Ed mainly plays pop music but has featured in others artists songs who specialise in different genres. He performs fairly basic, using simply a microphone and an acoustic guitar, yet he still  captivates the audience.

In my DJ sets i plan to be a lot more interactive in my performance, for example i would like to clap my hands to the beat and get the audience to join in, possibly have a microphone so i can speak to the audience and dance with the audience.