Most of today was spent getting set up and setting levels. We spent some time on figuring out how many pieces we had ideas for (27!), and gathering volunteers for each possible piece.
I’ll be leading “Slow, Cheap, and Out of Control”, an ambient piece based on my Java-Cocoa application that randomly generates drones and various other sound effects. I can basically tell it the shape of what I want it to do, but I can’t predict what notes it will choose, or how often it will change things other than in a very vague way. Should be quite interesting, especially since the rehearsals won’t be repeatable! We’ll see if that one fits together well enough for it to work.
Tomorrow there’s a gig at the local TV station in Prescott: DK, Brian, Mike, and I will be doing a few minutes live and then Mike will do an interview. Should be interesting: I’ll be playing a couple of VSTs hosted in licve from a teeny little 2-octave Edirol controller which I’ve only just started playing with today. Whee!
[Posted day 3 - no time to write it yesterday. - JM]
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