Autumn

Did some work on recording bits and pieces off my modular yesterday for this piece I'm working on. In the afternoon I went to a little private sorta show up at Move the Air (Alyssa's studio, first time over there since she had to move, 'cuz uh, fuck Murphy's). The show was Zero Point Star (Karl, formerly of Growlers,'s band). It was pretty good. They have a big Neutral Milk Hotel influence in the sound. And a little bit of blues rock. Karl plays guitar and sings and he has a drummer who has all the drums on the floor and plays them that way. There weren't a lot of people, it's a small space anyway (and the amount of people there did take up all the space!). Etrus was there, the only person I knew other than Karl and Alyssa. The space is really cool. It's upstairs. The whole building used to be studios in the 70s. And it still has that feel. It's a small single performance room with a little isolation booth and a control room. Kinda like the studio upstairs at Sounds Good, but maybe half the size. There's stone on part of the wall and that's pretty cool. Later I went and played a show with Nonconnah up at the Hi-Tone. It was kind of a last minute show and it was just me and Zachary playing. I only brought one of my cases (the smaller "sound processing" one, the Monorocket) and I used it to record Zach's sound from the room onto the Morphagene and do stuff with it, mostly. I kinda threw it all together and it was only recording a short bit and I'm not sure why, or it recorded more and got spliced so was only playing a splice...not sure. But it was cool. I thought it added a nice effect anyway, and it's still similar to what I was going for. Next was Diatom Deli. She's from Nashville and had a nice sound. She did a lot with layers, she'd play acoustic guitar and layer it in a looper and had electronics and sang and stuff. Something about it reminded me of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (less synthy, I mean there was some synth, but she's very synthy so...). And later I was talking to her, boyfriend I think, who also did projections and it came up that she's very influenced by her and they also saw her at Big Ears. Linda Heck played last and she was really good as usual. I picked up a cd from Diatom Deli: Feelsounds (it's older recordings than what she played live). I also picked up Zachary's other collaboration album: Glowing Swords: The Autumn Elegy (it's in a very fancy bontanical gardens themed packaging with a few pressed leaves, even). Anyway, back to work this morning. I finished reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was very excellent. I know it's famous for being influential in dystopian fiction, but it's also stylistically very strong and innovative. I liked it a lot. Left work after lunch and am home waiting for the tow truck to come take my car. Gonna be waiting another hour or so. Also, my nose can tell it's fall now even though the temperature hasn't changed yet! (Discounting the typical, brief fake out a few weeks ago.) I've had a nosebleed twice since yesterday.