Concerted

[ateolf]

I got a few cds in the mail yesterday: Nicholas Maloney: Stilling, Nicholas Maloney: Water Studies, and Nicholas Maloney and Robert Cole Rizzi: Five Sharply Pointed Petals (the latter was a nice freebie!). After work I set on recording that piece I'd been working on for Robert Pepper's "Ambient-Chaos Quarantine Concerts" thing. I actually spent a good bit of time on getting the video set up. I figured since it's not live, I can do the video and audio separately and I don't have to go straight to my computer's built-in camera and I figured maybe my phone camera would be better and I have that stand for it now. So I spent a while getting that set up (propping one leg up on a book as my convenient surface is slanted). Then I event spent time on the lighting. I wanted it dark enough to see the blinky lights on the modular, of course, but I didn't want myself in complete darkness (it kinda just ends up looking bad...at least that semi-darkness I'd have). So I attached a clip-on lamp to a mic stand. But then too much light was spilling onto the blinky lights so I came up with a way to keep it from going down too much and stuck a cymbal underneath the lamp. It ended up being a nice effect, slightly gold-hued, a teensy bit like an old washed-out photograph. Well, now that I'd made my most elaborate for-me lighting rig, I recorded the darn thing. I think it went okay. At night I finished reading The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges (with Margarita Guerrero, who there's literally absolutely no information about anywhere...which makes me extremely curious, like, was she a real person that really exists? what did she do with the book? is she a borgesian "imaginary being"? if not, why is there no information?). Anyway, good little fun book. It's an encyclopedic list of short descriptions of mostly creatures from different mythologies and such (a few just straight up excerpts from other works). At least 75% of "imaginary beings" seem to be mixtures of real animals (half-lion, half-snake, half-eagle). Oh yeah, and before bed there was a huge battle in the living room with a giant, flying roach. It took me way too long, but I eventually got it. I'd have to shriek and run away every time it started to fly.