Entries tagged with "theatre"

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:

Night.mp3

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.

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Thursday 11 May 2006

Grasshoppers and nighttime in the woods

Open stage tonight: J and I did “Catch-22”, “905” and “England”, which came off pretty nicely. Kurt Swinghammer was the feature, and played a great set of all covers (explaining along the way that he was too buried in recording his next album to want to sing more of his own tunes that night).

May have to book a gig at the Grasshopper - it’s a nice little place and the people are sweet. Just have to make sure there’s no hockey on that night.


Discussed things with the director of Midsummer Night’s Dream and watched a couple rehearsals of the play… it’s looking great, and I now know what I’m going to do for the sound design. Not surprisingly, it involves a lot of percussion instruments. :D

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Monday 8 May 2006

Losing it

I’m a frickin’ spaz today. So far I have lost (or discovered missing):

  • my glasses
  • a shock mount for a microphone (later found)
  • a bodhrán
  • my Metropass
  • my wallet

The good news is, Midsummer Night’s Dream is looking awesome. I’ve got a lot of work to do. And between rehearsals, an open stage, and our Friday gig, this is going to be one busy week.

Saturday’s gig (‘twas Nigel‘s CD release) rocked. Packed house, great crowd, awesome openers. I’d never seen David Celia before, and he and his cohorts Joan Besen and Mike Celia were an absolute treat to watch). The rest of the band played a terriffic show - especially considering three of them had had only one rehearsal with us. Really great to play with such an experienced crew. And Don Kerr played cello! I’m thinkin’ his Gas Station studio might be a place to record our upcoming CD…

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