WOW - time flies...
I've been nutty busy again - working at Orange part time has eaten a lot of my time up for other more creative pursuits.
I played a short set at the Now Nothing Gallery. The films we played to were great. The group I played with wasn't. Individually, these were all good fine people and capable musicians. But it quickly degraded into a blowing noise mess - formless audio chunder. I couldn't hear myself, and I was directly in front of my monitor, which was cranked to 11. If I couldn't hear me, then that meant others couldn't hear me either. And given the abandon with which it was all played, I don't think active listening and musical communication was high on the agenda.
This left me very angry - I felt I had wasted a perfectly good evening.
However: I have two great things that came of this:
1. I now know about the Now Nothing. It's a nice place.
2. I am in contact with a couple of the players and I believe something could come of that.
Other Important Goings on in the World of Warwick:
1. I will be playing at Cal State University at Long Beach on April 29th with the soundCommons orchestra. I will play laptop, and if my lungs are strong enough, duduk.
2. I procured Ableton Live version 4 and, very simply: it TOTALLY FUCKING ROCKS. I've been merrily banging away on the thing, and it has been great fun. It Still Doesn't mix mp3s (BOO HISS!!!), but the MIDI functionality is wonderful.
3. Beth and I are making plans to go to Paris in July. We are excited. I'd like to play a show there...
4. In spite of less than useful practices by a few of the contributors, the next YLEM journal will be out soon. After that we do an audio edition.
So, things are fairly good. I am still deeply depressed about the Human Prospect, but today I have pushed such problems away from my mind for the time being.
I watched the movie "Woodstock". At the end it said something like:
WOODSTOCK GENERATION
19xx - 20xx
R.I.P. it up
Tear it up
And have a great time...
It's that kind of attitude that has been the cause of so much sufffering.
The section of Jimi Hendrix playing the National Anthem to a sea of garbage left behind by half a million hippies was more insightful than I care to think. I really admire Hendrix's work there.
On a positive note, the performance by Crosby Stills and Nash was amazing - you could tell that they were "doing something important" and they knew it too, and they were spot on in their playing. It really nice to see people at the top of their game.
HW
I played a short set at the Now Nothing Gallery. The films we played to were great. The group I played with wasn't. Individually, these were all good fine people and capable musicians. But it quickly degraded into a blowing noise mess - formless audio chunder. I couldn't hear myself, and I was directly in front of my monitor, which was cranked to 11. If I couldn't hear me, then that meant others couldn't hear me either. And given the abandon with which it was all played, I don't think active listening and musical communication was high on the agenda.
This left me very angry - I felt I had wasted a perfectly good evening.
However: I have two great things that came of this:
1. I now know about the Now Nothing. It's a nice place.
2. I am in contact with a couple of the players and I believe something could come of that.
Other Important Goings on in the World of Warwick:
1. I will be playing at Cal State University at Long Beach on April 29th with the soundCommons orchestra. I will play laptop, and if my lungs are strong enough, duduk.
2. I procured Ableton Live version 4 and, very simply: it TOTALLY FUCKING ROCKS. I've been merrily banging away on the thing, and it has been great fun. It Still Doesn't mix mp3s (BOO HISS!!!), but the MIDI functionality is wonderful.
3. Beth and I are making plans to go to Paris in July. We are excited. I'd like to play a show there...
4. In spite of less than useful practices by a few of the contributors, the next YLEM journal will be out soon. After that we do an audio edition.
So, things are fairly good. I am still deeply depressed about the Human Prospect, but today I have pushed such problems away from my mind for the time being.
I watched the movie "Woodstock". At the end it said something like:
WOODSTOCK GENERATION
19xx - 20xx
R.I.P. it up
Tear it up
And have a great time...
It's that kind of attitude that has been the cause of so much sufffering.
The section of Jimi Hendrix playing the National Anthem to a sea of garbage left behind by half a million hippies was more insightful than I care to think. I really admire Hendrix's work there.
On a positive note, the performance by Crosby Stills and Nash was amazing - you could tell that they were "doing something important" and they knew it too, and they were spot on in their playing. It really nice to see people at the top of their game.
HW
