Tuesday 20 June 2006
Back from the woods
Midsummer’s closed Saturday - a great show, and cast and crew were wonderful. Glad I had the chance to be involved.
No time to rest, though… I was at the office until 11 last night doing a Flash piece at the last minute (a trivia kiosk for the grand opening of a new TV channel headquarters).
So tonight I’ve been taking a bit of a breather and, uh, reorganizing the studio completely. The turntable is now no longer above eye level, and no longer requires me to stand on a chair and put my head in the path of the ceiling fan to find a track. (I’m also happy to report that the bruises and swelling have gone down.) The Electrix units are now stowed in a small rack along with my other dusty effects units. (Yes, I bought the EQ Killer - it looked so lonely there by itself at the shop, and this way I have a dedicated preamp for the turntable rather than madly swapping cables all the time.) And drums and effects are all plugged into a little sub-mixer of their own. Finally, a use for that little Behringer that’s been sitting power-supplyless for months!
So of course, I’ve had random vinyl records playing through the FilterQueen while I work. And when I realized iTunes was still on, in Shuffle mode, I brought up my computer on the mixer to see what was playing. Well, this was it:
I’ve always loved it when two completely unrelated things happen to be in the same key, or otherwise complement each other musically. The other day, sitting at a restaurant, I was totally spellbound by the sound of a baby squealing with laughter a couple of tables away, overtop of the jazz tune on the sound system.
“What’s up?” asked Sean.
“That kid. Just did the most awesome solo,” I said.
Perhaps I am easily amused.