1. An instrument
2. A band of people playing instruments
3. Alternative controllers like the wii mote
4. A screen behind you that people can interact with using their phones
5. Visuals that move to the music and clips that are relevant to the sound
6. Dancers
7. People on stilts
8. Little people on stilts
9. Little people on stilts with visuals behind them
10. Sing
11. Ask the crowd to sing with you
12. Be spontaneous
13. Don’t use a computer
14. Use a program that not many other people do like renoise or audiomulch
15. An interpretive dance with the crowd (see Dan Deacon)
16. Have members of the crowd come up on stage and loop them clapping or singing
17. Cover / remix classic songs that people haven’t heard in ages
18. Play only one instrument and run it through a ton of loopers and fx pedals. Voice is a good pick if you go this route
19. Have an interlude with drama acting
20. Engineer the set in 5.1 surround
21. Fly in from the ceiling attached to wires
22. Enter from beneath the stage
23. Play a genre that your audience might not have heard live before
24. Play an instrument that your audience hasn’t even seen before
25. Play music that you actually enjoy! Your enthusiasm will carry itself
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