Lots of Show

Pretty great night last night with not one but two shows! And two awesome shows (I say in spite of myself playing one of them). First it was Ihcilon at Two Rivers. He put on a great set as always. He's got some new gear. I guess some of the sounds are new but it still sounds very much like him. I picked up his new cd: Ihcilon: Telephonic (and a sticker to boot, need to get it on my car!). I also picked up a couple of Atari 2600 cartridges while I was in the store: Nexar, Haunted House, and Video Pinball. Then it was up to the P&H for my own show. I set up and got going first. Lots of bleeps and bloops in my set. Peopled seemed into it. Mostly it seemed okay, a few sounds at the time felt like they were falling more flat than they had when I practiced for the show, but it was probably fine. I recorded it so I'll listen back and see how it is (and I'm sure I'll post the link when I get it online). Next was Artificer and she was awesome as always. She did the drone thing and had some new high drones that faded in and out on top of the low drones that was kinda new and really cool. Blanket Swimming was next. He played the first year of Memphis Concrète (was from Hattiesburg at the time but now lives in Jackson, MS). He was really awesome. In some ways his set felt like a mine and Artificer's smashed together, very drone-based but with lots of other glitchy, abstract sounds on top. It was really good. Infinity Stairs was last and he also was really good live. His stuff is much more melodic and rhythmic (sometimes dancey), but in an 80s Tangerine Dream way. A pretty good amount of people were out for it and I had a great time talking to everyone. It was a fun night. Thought I got home real late and was tired today, but I made it through. So changes at work are happening soon. I was asked to start up a new team that will be the first to start working on the salesforce transition. So that'll be yet another new thing I'll be learning and dipping my toes into. A little sad 'cuz I feel like I'm just getting into(/the hang of) angular and rxjs. But everything's moving to salesforce eventually anyway and it'll be nice to get a head start on it (as long as I don't end up hating it...drag and drop? hrm, we'll see). Also, I guess being selected for this is a vote of confidence from the company so there's that and looking good and stuff. And it looks like my current team is being split up as well as we've fulfilled our mission or whatever you call it. I've enjoyed working with them, but I've enjoyed working with everyone I've worked with so we'll see how the new team is when it starts to exist. And it's going to be soon, next pi. We're almost at the fourth sprint of the current so that's only four more weeks (and I guess maybe planning with the new team in two).