Improvising electronic music live would be cool, but in practice it’s almost impossible to do, particularly on your own. You only have 2 hands, how would you play even, say, a simple drum pattern, a bassline and a chord progression alone? And you’'d have to control the synthesizers too, create new sounds and stuff, unless you plan on using exactly the same sounds for the whole perfomance. Plus FX, maybe some filter sweeps and stuff. You’d need 10 hands.
You could of course hire some professional musicians to help you, but unless you’re a huge star (or otherwise rich) that’s not a realistic scenario. And you’d have to find musicians who both know free improvisation, know how to operate synths and actually like electronic music. Not an easy task.
If you do it alone, premade patterns (at least some of them) is pretty much the only way to go. With no premade material you’d have to be INSANELY good at what you’re doing.
You could of course improvise something, but the music needs to be enjoyable to the audience too. Randomly smashing keys and drum pads is difficult to make sound good.
I kinda would like to do something like this, but with electronic instruments:
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