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 per musicians.) We span a wide range: from duets to complete ensembles – and styles from weird jazz to Berlin-style electronica to tribal to totally off-the-wall weirdness. Woo.
I had a number of pieces to practice today, and I’ll be playing stuff from clavinet funk lines to Middle-Eastern drums. It’s going to be pretty active onstage! I will probably be playing a very silly Spike Jones-style percussion solo on one piece, which is gonna be FUN.
I tried some different stuff in the all-star jams tonight: essentially some ostinato “sequencer” stuff played by hand. (I found out that this is hard to do at fast tempos. Duh.) I lasted about halfway through and had to take a rest. Did a little drumming along with Giles, and finished up playing faux soprano (which is pretty silly considering we have a very good soprano player on hand already – hi Brian!).
Kinda late now. People are tired enough now to be discussing politics. Bedtime.
