There was a time when it was not such a painless matter to make live computer music-I can recall electronic artists early in this decade who, lacking laptops, brought a whole PC and monitor on stage: serious dedication. Nowadays anyone can plug in their cheapo laptop and inflict a gnarly aural stream of ones and zeros on the ears of humanoids (though you might ask Girltalk about the joys of having your Dell laptop flake while dozens of people expecting a show watch you troubleshoot it).