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		<title>Different Skies: after</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;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. </p>
<p>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 <em>cold</em>. Fortunately, that was the only cold night we had. We all got up as usual thsi morning; several folks had to go out early (Otso, DK, and Mike) because of bad weather predicted along their return route. Giles, Bill Fox, Darrel, Allen, and Doug went out around noon, and Jim Combs and I followed soon after. I was lucky that Jim was with me, as there was construction that required us to get off the freeway and drive through random parts of Phoenix. Jim had done it on Sunday when he went back down to pick up Otso and John 3. I dropped Jim off, dropped the rental car off (it was a Honda Civic hybrid &#8211; only half a tank of gas to get all the way to Arcosanti and back &#8211; cool!), and checked in.</p>
<p>Man, am I tired. Thank goodness Ivan was there to do sound for us, but that is some heavy equipment. Fortunately Rus ran into The Naked Guy during this process instead of me, as I would probably not have handled it with equal aplomb. (The Naked Guy showed up partway through the process; he apparently really needed to get to the visitor&#8217;s parking lot for some reason. Who knows.)</p>
<p>Sales at the merchandise table were brisk &#8211; the two folks who volunteered to help out took in more than $400. Wish I&#8217;d had my CD ready, but oh well. Maybe next time.</p>
<p>I need to analyze my setup and come up with something without a single point of failure if I want to play live. The FIREBOX was the bottleneck &#8211; if I&#8217;d just yanked the mixer cables and swapped them to the Firebox I could have stayed on line. &#8220;Everything and Nothing&#8221; would have just been different, rather than for all practical purposes nonexistent. I could have done fine with something I could switch to a straight audio-out feed from the headphone jack in an emergency &#8211; it worked well enough for the TV appearance, so it would certainly do for a backup. I didn&#8217;t use the Vortex much at all, so I could leave it home next time. If the audio was all routed direct to the mixer, and then to the direct box, I could turn up the direct laptop feed in case of an interface crash, or simply switch to whatever else I was using (real modules/etc.) if the computer bit it completely. Add one of the Edirol controllers for a backup if the keyboard goes but the computer&#8217;s up. and I should be ready for nearly anything. Though I will still keep the drum and whatever other acoustic instrument(s) I bring handy; they should work for anything short of the power going off. Miking, etc. is to be figured out later. And I&#8217;d really like to start playing trumpet again. Would be a nice addition to Brian&#8217;s sax.</p>
<p>Admittedly, it would have been nice if I had been able to figure this out earlier, but at least I&#8217;ve got a live setup sorted out for next time &#8230; and I definitely want there to be a next time.</p>
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		<title>Finding a new voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joemcmahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been composing much for a while. I&#8217;ve been telling myself that I don&#8217;t have enough space to set the studio up, that I don&#8217;t have enough time, that I&#8217;m more interested in software lately, but the honest truth is that I had gotten stuck.I&#8217;ve been toying around with a set of ambient tracks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t been composing much for a while. I&#8217;ve been telling myself that I don&#8217;t have enough space to set the studio up, that I don&#8217;t have enough time, that I&#8217;m more interested in software lately, but the honest truth is that I had gotten stuck.I&#8217;ve been toying around with a set of ambient tracks which are reasonably good, but I haven&#8217;t committed them to CD. I&#8217;ve not been satisfied with what I&#8217;ve been doing for a while now. I seem to be stuck in the same riff, the same chords, the same &#8220;you&#8217;ve heard this a thousand times&#8221; vaguely-new-age results.I&#8217;m not happy with this. The ambient stuff was an attempt to clear the decks and start off in a new direction, which partially succeeded, but didn&#8217;t move me to the new place I feel that I need to be.A couple of months ago, saw a sign for a local piano store. I looked in; looked good, and I decided to come back later. We hadn&#8217;t really decided that we were going to get a piano for sure, but we walked in and found a jewel of a piano.
<p>It seems to be like the <a href="http://www.centennialbulb.org/">hundred-year bulb</a>: all of the tiny little elements have al fallen into exactly the right place. It&#8217;s as warm and sensitive as any piano I&#8217;ve ever gotten to play, including a few Steinways. It feels like it&#8217;s been lovingly played for years, and has just gotten to that perfect place where it sounds as good as you could imagine.I&#8217;ve been playing it more and more; I lucked into a wonderful jazz piano book with a lot of extended harmony exercises. Since I&#8217;ve been playing them, my fingers are reaching for new things along with the old, and my playing is improving greatly; more right-brain than before, and my left hand is no longer just something to push buttons with while I play the keys with my right.I&#8217;m glad to have set aside the synths for a while. I don&#8217;t think I would have had this change to grow without first losing my voice and then finding it again. I feel like I can go back to my ambient tracks with fresh eyes and see what is there that I can really work with now.<small>[formatting updated 9/29/06 - JM]</small></p>
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