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ateolfWow. It's been an insane week (plus). I wasn't meaning to be gone this long, but our internet went out last Monday (and then by the time it got fixed again the festival was steamrolling over everything!). I guess I'll go back to the beginning, as best I can. I never mentioned getting this cd I'm listening to (Crockett Hall: Tanglewood) from Daniel up at that Ghost River show last week. Okay, but back to stuff. I think I got stuff for the "I Am Sitting in a Room" styled exhibit (You Are Standing in a Room) working and tested on the raspberry pi. Did I do other things? I think I ran through my set a couple more times. And wanted to other days this week and never got around to it. So never really even practiced for the movie. But whatever. I know I watched the episode of Twin Peaks that night.
So then there's last Monday. Came home after work to find the internet out. There was a comcast technician outside working on our upstairs neighbor's stuff. Well, then he leaves and it stays off (til Friday).
Tuesday I went up to the Crosstown Concourse for this Iceberg composers series concert (from New York) performed by the Blueshift Ensemble (from here). It was really really good. Mostly classical instruments and various degrees of experimentality in the compositions. My favorite was one called "Photons" (Drake Andersen) and it was a duet between flute and clarinet and the musicians were on the floor above (oh, I didn't mention the whole thing was performed in the atrium which was a spectacular setting, their actual new space in the Concourse is still under construction). That piece was the most reminiscent (stylistically) of early electronic music in its fragmented, stuttering approach. All of it was really good. It was nice and relaxing and cleared my mind.
The rest of that workweek was pretty much just getting stuff ready for the festival. Running around and whatever else. I don't remember. All a dang blur. I took Friday off from work. Definitely needed it to get ready. Felt like I should've taken Thursday off too! Got up early and got cash and lots of beer and some more cables and some drumstick and brushes. What else did I do? More blur. I was mostly feeling okay about the whole thing. Things were feeling ready (a step up from just the weekend before where they kinda weren't) but it was still a bit hectic feeling and I was continually not getting enough sleep. At least starting Friday. Another comcast technician came out this time to our place and he confirmed, sure enough, that the previous technician disconnected a wire and never connected it back. The other dude broke it! But then we got it fixed (by then I was on a roll being too busy to post!). It'd been really obnoxious trying to plan and do things from home only having my phone at my disposal!
Got up early Saturday to finish wrapping things up (also just kept waking up earlier than I needed to). It was the goddamn day of! It was happening! Mary Beth and I took a break and went back up to the Concourse for Iceberg's thing on deep listening (Pauline Oliveros!). That was a lot of fun we did a few of her meditations. Walking around and singing and sitting down and closing our eyes and listening. It was a pretty awesome coincidence that this of all things was happening the day of the festival! The festival! I'll go off and get to that in another post!
So then there's last Monday. Came home after work to find the internet out. There was a comcast technician outside working on our upstairs neighbor's stuff. Well, then he leaves and it stays off (til Friday).
Tuesday I went up to the Crosstown Concourse for this Iceberg composers series concert (from New York) performed by the Blueshift Ensemble (from here). It was really really good. Mostly classical instruments and various degrees of experimentality in the compositions. My favorite was one called "Photons" (Drake Andersen) and it was a duet between flute and clarinet and the musicians were on the floor above (oh, I didn't mention the whole thing was performed in the atrium which was a spectacular setting, their actual new space in the Concourse is still under construction). That piece was the most reminiscent (stylistically) of early electronic music in its fragmented, stuttering approach. All of it was really good. It was nice and relaxing and cleared my mind.
The rest of that workweek was pretty much just getting stuff ready for the festival. Running around and whatever else. I don't remember. All a dang blur. I took Friday off from work. Definitely needed it to get ready. Felt like I should've taken Thursday off too! Got up early and got cash and lots of beer and some more cables and some drumstick and brushes. What else did I do? More blur. I was mostly feeling okay about the whole thing. Things were feeling ready (a step up from just the weekend before where they kinda weren't) but it was still a bit hectic feeling and I was continually not getting enough sleep. At least starting Friday. Another comcast technician came out this time to our place and he confirmed, sure enough, that the previous technician disconnected a wire and never connected it back. The other dude broke it! But then we got it fixed (by then I was on a roll being too busy to post!). It'd been really obnoxious trying to plan and do things from home only having my phone at my disposal!
Got up early Saturday to finish wrapping things up (also just kept waking up earlier than I needed to). It was the goddamn day of! It was happening! Mary Beth and I took a break and went back up to the Concourse for Iceberg's thing on deep listening (Pauline Oliveros!). That was a lot of fun we did a few of her meditations. Walking around and singing and sitting down and closing our eyes and listening. It was a pretty awesome coincidence that this of all things was happening the day of the festival! The festival! I'll go off and get to that in another post!
