Oh man those Glass etudes are SO HARD, good luck
To deal with the annoyance re the score, I took a break and went and got my ears pierced
― that said, I’d prefer a single serving of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
nice, and thanks for the well-wishes, I assume I will keep returning to them over the years until I'm actually advanced enough to play one of them
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
Cantata concert went great
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
That's great, DJP.
I was just offered a one hour ambient/improv/out gig at a nearby cafe this Friday. It seems like a good and exciting opportunity but also seems totally crazy to get an hour of solo music to a performance standard in four days. I said I'd confirm for sure tomorrow.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 03:23 (four years ago) link
I finished writing the score and it's great and I'm happy now
― that said, I’d prefer a single serving of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
!
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
Just agreed to do the gig tonight. Going to try to figure out a set, sigh.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
Er, not tonight. I agree this afternoon. The gig is Friday.
Eh, one hour will fly by! You did the right thing by agreeing. I think it's good to accept challenging invitations if they present themselves :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Thanks!
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
I just agreed to sing this in a concert next month:
https://youtu.be/urxk4mveLCw
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
@ hardcore dilettante
I just finished it all. I was really not-feeling the opening cue, which I wrote under the direction of producers/director, and was unhappy with the result (they loved it and wanted to use it.) I was so frustrated with their decision, and enamoured with other ideas I'd written, that I was seriously considering leaving the project over it. It passed, I was being overdramatic. I have softened on the opening cue and although I don't think it's the best option, I do think it essentially works. I'm so happy with the rest of the score and think it (and the film itself) are an achievement and so I'm really in a happy place about it!
― that said, I’d prefer a single serving of you (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
in challenging invitations, i have accepted an invitation* to play a solo set (only 15-20 min) in early january, which means starting off my 2020 with 1) one rock band show and 2) one weird solo thing. YES PLEASE. I accept.
*invitation came from someone I don't know personally on facebook, so I was dubious at first, but then remembered my "always be growing/learning" mantra and accepted. i mean, i was invited. i can't say no!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
Right on, you have some time to prep at least.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Thursday, 12 December 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
I totally couldn’t do it otherwise! But with a little time I’m looking forward to seeing what I can put together. And also realizing that it’s just 15 min, not a big deal. Right??!!?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 13 December 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
Yeah, totally.
I was a little under the weather and took yesterday and today off work, which did give me a little more time to prep. Feeling ready-ish for tomorrow.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Friday, 13 December 2019 04:22 (four years ago) link
how’d it go?
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 December 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
Yeah how did it go?? I’m sitting in w a friend for an Alex Chilton annual bday thing. Should be fun!!!! Excited about the songs we’re playing :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 23 December 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
Wow. Can you tell us what they are? No pressure ;)
― Don’t Slander Meme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 December 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
My yearly Messiah thing went well even though the power to the organ went out two days beforehand and we ended up singing with Casio accompaniment
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 23 December 2019 02:41 (four years ago) link
Perhaps it was a problem with the blower? I hear that happens a lot. To organs.
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 December 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
Yes indeed I can! Most excited about You Get What You Deserve + Daisy Glaze, also I’m in Love...+ Give Me Another Chance but those are pretty mellow/not drummyDaisy Glaze may be the craziest actual song I have ever played or attempted to play w other people.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 23 December 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
Also newsflash I’m no Jody Stephens It’s not for a few days and we will have rehearsed 2x. That’s enough right? I agreed to do this like 4 days ago.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 23 December 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
It went all right, thanks! The crowd was small and mostly there for the guys who put it on and played before me so there was a very small audience. It was fairly loose but I think the stuff came across all right anyway. Because there was less of a PA/sound system than I had anticipated, I ended up connecting my interface into the two amps of the guys who played first, which meant I kept trying to turn things down or adjust levels during my set. Still, I'd been hoping to put an album together for next summer so this got me to get pretty much all the material ready.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Monday, 23 December 2019 04:10 (four years ago) link
Alex Chilton thing sounds super fun.
Puffin: Yes, the blower was non-functional even after power was restored. I’m out of town on vacation now but I heard they fixed it before this morning’s service.
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 23 December 2019 04:20 (four years ago) link
I have a new album out! Comes with a little book I drew as well. https://boomkat.com/products/the-saturn-star
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 23 December 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
Djp: Glad to hear about the organ blower
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 December 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
Am currently spending Christmas alone bc I have to sort through and edit 60 GBs of orchestral recordings for a film score
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 23 December 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
ahhhhhhh did a solo show tonight! the first thing i played got royally messed up from the outset and it was my first time out with the looper totally under my control so there were some bumps. but the second thing i played felt much more right and i feel so relieved!! ahhhhhhhhhhh
the last three weeks i have playedalex chilton tributeregular rock show w the band i play with solo w looper
a range of experiences in a short period of time, very satisfying :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 9 January 2020 06:16 (four years ago) link
Right on, glad the solo show smoothed itself out.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
BTW they didn't fix the organ before my Handel recital so we all ended singing to Casio accompaniment:
https://soundcloud.com/djperry1973/for-behold-darkness-shall-cover-the-earththe-people-that-walked-in-darkness
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
I guess I should have looked upthread to see that I already said this, oops
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
I was hoping for some glowing 8-bit type Casio sounds, now that would have been a happy accident
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
I'm gonna suggest we do a chiptone Messiah next year
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
And congrats LL!
My drumming has been feeling better than ever lately, but having a hard time with producing new music. Starting lots of tracks and abandoning them if they're not clicking rather than pushing through, which I'm choosing to see as wisdom rather than laziness. And having a hard time not feeling like I'm repeating myself, or like I'm making something that hasn't been done better by someone else. There's one track I'm really happy with, but I seem to like it more than anyone else, which is not ideal.
xp yesss
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 January 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
LL, that sounds like a great variety of fun stuff to be doing!
DJP - I'm gonna suggest we do a chiptone Messiah next year -> please please! I need this.
My band's album now physically exists, to be released vv soon, eeeek!
https://scontent.flhr3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/82119783_2650535134996085_2119605212850159616_o.jpg(hopefully that works, ours is the LP on the right)
― emil.y, Friday, 10 January 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
https://scontent.flhr3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/82119783_2650535134996085_2119605212850159616_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_ohc=2DaYleYxFYUAX97bste&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-1.fna&oh=e9aa15f909050f898cd3c1bafefd4ff2&oe=5E9EF02B
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― emil.y, Friday, 10 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
Emil.y I can’t wait to hear it!! The band I play with is releasing a record this spring too. I only play on one song on the album but it’s still exciting!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
Get a Commodore 64 and a MSSIAH cartridge!
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 10 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
A woman in my social-media orbit recently asked if anyone has a drum set sitting around, to potentially sell to her 17-year-old daughter.
As it happens, I am thinking about selling some drums (to get more and different drums, of course).
Nothing especially momentous, and perhaps it won't happen, but it does warm my heart to hear that there is a teenager living in the year 2020 who even a little serious about playing acoustic drums.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 January 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
What started as a one-off show last spring evolved into us playing as an actual band and we've played a couple of shows at bars opening for other bands and stuff, and now we somehow ended up in a battle of the bands kind of show at a local venue tomorrow. If anyone told me ten years ago that in 2020 I'd be playing bass in a band in the town I currently live in it would have sounded insane. It's still terrifying but super fun.
I've never played live on a stage of any sort until this past year there is a whole world of logistical stuff I sort of vaguely knew about but never had to deal with when just fucking around at home alone, like micing and DI stuff and monitors and hearing yourself and others on stage vs. at rehearsal and seeing the dot markers on a dark stage and hauling heavy cubical objects into and out of places through alleys.
― joygoat, Friday, 10 January 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
Ha been there. Hoofed large amounts of gear up 4 flights of stairs to a loft space. My first time w cords + looper + drum stuff. Lost my power strip 😢
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
Also anyone know why a looper’s looping function wouldn’t work through a PA but work fine through an amp?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 10 January 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
I have another concert this Sunday where I will be the bass in a quartet doing Brahms Op. 92, Copland's arrangement of "The Little Horses", and "Stars" from Les Mis
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 20 January 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
\m/
― One must put up barriers to keep oneself intact (Sund4r), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Finished recording one piece, now in the always-pleasant phase of listening obsessively for everything that could be wrong/deciding whether things are worth changing. I do intend to move on to the next soon enough.
― With considerable charm, you still have made a choice (Sund4r), Monday, 27 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Yesterday went REALLY well; I got some applause on the Copland piece before I even finished singing and I had multiple people compliment me on the Les Mis piece (which I'd never really even listened to until about 4 weeks ago) including a jaded teenager, which felt like a massive win
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 27 January 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
I flubbed some minor spots in the Brahms but the audience loved it so 🤷♂️
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 27 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link