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roachboy · 09-14-2004, 05:59 AM

postperformance ruminations.

the clairaudient/windsleepers project had its first public manifestations on the weekend.
it has (obviously if the journal is an index) been a preoccupation for a couple of months, an extraordinary accelerated learning process.

the results are interesting: saturday was the more aggressive set and it appears we did a job on the audience. reactions are still filtering back through various channels--from what we can tell, the set was up and focussed from the start, and the sound melted into what appears to have been a kind of pulverizing wall by about 15 minutes--people could not tell the piano from the electronics, the shortwave from the poets from teh playskools...yes yes.

sunday we did a very quiet set, generated a very different space which seemed to have worked (the straighter musicians in the house reacted very strongly to sunday because they could tell which intrument was which--i am not sure how i feel about that, actually--but it resulted in a bunch of invitations from contemporary classical players, where after saturday what we got from these same people were series of questions about how we did what we did)....

i bought a woody woodpecker handheld fan with floppy plastic blades that was a source of great fun for me during the sunday performance, letting the blades whack the piano strings, trying to find points of minimal contact, making harmonics along the string being vibrated, sending waves out into the house...woody woopecker is my new friend. i found five or six other ways to generate tones from it by playing around with it later on, so it'll be in the repertoire of stringabuse toys for a while.

results:

we need greater control over the sound--we are considering working a sound engineer into the collective---the venue we played had a really poor monitor mix, and the nature of the sound was outside the capabilities of the sound guy, who could not get an accurate mix because the soundimage we were producing was such that he did not know what to focus on.

otherwise, keep moving.
we are into a short hiatus then back to performance mode again starting in october.
things seem to be moving around us a little, so we might well start surfacing publically...holding off on excitement until things actually beging to occur--too old to think otherwise.

i need to focus on my courses for a while in any event--setting the premises of classes you teach is critical because they carry the semester---unfolding implications is easier than setting the game in motion.

i sent one of my classes to the duchamp gallery at the philadelphia art museum on the weekend--this afternoon we'll see if they figured out why they had to do it---a good index of where we are starting from, you see.

09-14-2004, 05:59 AM	#62 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	postperformance ruminations. the clairaudient/windsleepers project had its first public manifestations on the weekend. it has (obviously if the journal is an index) been a preoccupation for a couple of months, an extraordinary accelerated learning process. the results are interesting: saturday was the more aggressive set and it appears we did a job on the audience. reactions are still filtering back through various channels--from what we can tell, the set was up and focussed from the start, and the sound melted into what appears to have been a kind of pulverizing wall by about 15 minutes--people could not tell the piano from the electronics, the shortwave from the poets from teh playskools...yes yes. sunday we did a very quiet set, generated a very different space which seemed to have worked (the straighter musicians in the house reacted very strongly to sunday because they could tell which intrument was which--i am not sure how i feel about that, actually--but it resulted in a bunch of invitations from contemporary classical players, where after saturday what we got from these same people were series of questions about how we did what we did).... i bought a woody woodpecker handheld fan with floppy plastic blades that was a source of great fun for me during the sunday performance, letting the blades whack the piano strings, trying to find points of minimal contact, making harmonics along the string being vibrated, sending waves out into the house...woody woopecker is my new friend. i found five or six other ways to generate tones from it by playing around with it later on, so it'll be in the repertoire of stringabuse toys for a while. results: we need greater control over the sound--we are considering working a sound engineer into the collective---the venue we played had a really poor monitor mix, and the nature of the sound was outside the capabilities of the sound guy, who could not get an accurate mix because the soundimage we were producing was such that he did not know what to focus on. otherwise, keep moving. we are into a short hiatus then back to performance mode again starting in october. things seem to be moving around us a little, so we might well start surfacing publically...holding off on excitement until things actually beging to occur--too old to think otherwise. i need to focus on my courses for a while in any event--setting the premises of classes you teach is critical because they carry the semester---unfolding implications is easier than setting the game in motion. i sent one of my classes to the duchamp gallery at the philadelphia art museum on the weekend--this afternoon we'll see if they figured out why they had to do it---a good index of where we are starting from, you see. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 09-14-2004 at 06:02 AM..