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Posts on ‘October 18th, 2007’

Different Skies: Day 5

Another big day.
Murray, who at the minimum should be knighted, supplied marvelous croissants again, and a Thermos of espresso midafternoon. Nothing like fresh musician fuel.
With 17 musicians and 27 pieces, we needed a spreadsheet to figure out who plays on what and who’s leading which piece. (It averages out to about 11 different pieces [...]

Different Skies: a word from our sponsor

Hello to EMUSIC-L! I’m Mike Metlay, the Founder and Coordinator of Different Skies, and this short post is by way of introduction and to say a few words about the event.
And here they are: Blubber! Nitwit! Oddment! Tweak!
More later if time permits.
mike

Different Skies: Day 4

Yesterday was mostly practice and preparations. I spent most of the morning optimizing my setup, but late in the afternoon we put together the intro piece which includes me doing Tibetan throat singing. In for a penny, in for a pound. I’ll be using quite a number of things: Ableton Live, Brad Garton’s jlooch (slightly [...]