Drop Ceiling Ensemble Show

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Mary Beth and I did our Fresh Market grocery run during the ol' lunch break. Then they didn't have pork tenderloin which was very much needed soon so I made a quick run to a Kroger just for that. Got this cd in the mail: Wolf Eyes w/ Spykes: Feedback & Drums Vol. 1. Then at night it was off to the H & S Printing Co. for the show with Drop Ceiling (ancient downtown warehouse converted into artist space). I sat around for a while, there was a good amount of people there. Noah has his art studio in the semi-upstairs and he'd also just had people over to visit his studio. Rob Magill played first and he was really good, started off with guitar and loops and then played some with this weird horn thing (with lots of pipes for different notes, no idea what it's called) and then saxophone which he played along to the guitar feedback and then solo. His sax stuff was the best part and also saxophone along with feedback. Yeah, then it was Drop Ceiling in full orchestra mode. Bennett was doing the conducting with the different colors on the projector (the kaleidoscope of the painted wood puzzle shapes on the camera). Then there were nine of us musicians altogether playing. I was on my little Minibrute. I had worked and refined some of my patches to better facilitate some of the stuff I was planning to do. Then the thing happened where we always practiced with the lights on but for the show it was lights off so then I couldn't see my synth's panel, but I managed okay. I didn't make too many drastic changes. We also played pretty short, which would be my only complain about it (maybe only twenty minutes and maybe even slightly less than that). But it was fun. Hopefully it was good. Sometimes I never fucking know with that! It was cool to play with those people. Real awesome to actually play with David (Mary Beth's current guitar-playing crush, where she has a crush on his guitar playing). Oh and I didn't actually say but Rob Magill played with the ensemble so I actually got to play with a somewhat famous experimental jazz guy! He was nice too and I bought some cds from him after the show: Rob Magill: Baritone Saxophone Fragments, Kesem with Rob Magill: The Anthrokaleidoscope Suite, Marshall Trammell / Rob Magill: The Fanfare of Looking Up, and Daniel Masiel / Rob Magill: A Long Time Ago, This Year. I hung around a bit afterwards to help pack up cables. Okay, now to work!