I’m currently at the airport, having just finished going through security and having to have my backpack scanned twice; too many confusing electronic bits, I guess.
Load-out took from after the concert and final jams (ten-ish) until about 3AM. We got to experience the weather we might have had: 60 mph winds and cold. Fortunately, [...]
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Different Skies: after
October 21st, 2007 · No Comments
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Different Skies: Day 7 and the last
October 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Mostly rested today. Put together the vocal samples for “Everything and Nothing”, Allen’s and my piece … we’ll talk about that later.The concert was a raousing success; technically speaking for me it was a nightmare, The FIREBOX hung repeatedly whenever I brought up any software that tried to talk to it, so when we got [...]
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Different Skies: Day 6
October 19th, 2007 · No Comments
Rehearsals again; we have the ordered matrix of performance ready now (okay, okay, who’s playing on what, who’s leading, and the song order. Meaning the spreadsheet’s sorted).
The students from the Orme School came by for the “here’s what we do here at Different Skies” demo, which was a load of fun. We did a jam [...]
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Different Skies: Day 5
October 18th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
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Different Skies: Day 4
October 18th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
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Different Skies: Day 3
October 16th, 2007 · No Comments
We did the TV show today - the Behringer mixer we tried out last night was actually broken, which we figured out 45 seconds before airtime (ack!). We ended up soloing all the channels, which got us a mono mix good enough to allow us to perform.
Worse: the mixer, once we got it set up, [...]
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Different Skies: Day 2
October 16th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
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Different Skies: Day 1
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Just wrapping up after the first day. A number of folks were quite delayed - Mike and company ended up having to drive way out of their way to avoid snow, so they’ll not be in until very late. Otso, John 3, and Jim Combs got in just as I was headed back to my [...]
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Different Skies: T -12 minutes
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
… according to the countdown timer. It’s a little before 6AM here in California; just making brekfast and writing this post.
Everything’s packed and ready at this point - I ended up with a suitcase full of gear to tote along, so we’ll see how that goes. I only forgot one thing: scheduling a shuttle to [...]
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Different Skies: T -2:05:29
October 11th, 2007 · No Comments
I’ll be attending the Different Skies festival this year as a performer. This will be my first public performance on keyboards. Gulp.
I’m still doing my last minute planning - I’ve finalized the gear, gotten the software I want to use ready, and have made lists of the stuff to actually be packed and taken. I [...]
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