17 September 2009
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Saturday we didn’t really learn how to build a theremine or at least while I was in the workshop nobody explained how it worked. In fact they were swamped and had far more folks than planned so it’s understandable and the workshop was already underway when we got there so perhaps something was said at the beginning.
10 September 2009
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Once again I’ll be joining Bill Holden next Saturday. He was asked to participate in the TSKZ09, a small festival for “sonic creations + art & science multimedia”.
One of the reasons I have not had time to blog lately is that I was helping him out in building the necessary home made musical instruments. In this case a few skid’fonias…
22 August 2009
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Thursday’s concert was a mixed bag and a bit frustrating, but that’s nothing new. Basically the crowd had a few speeches to listen to before making there way into the concert hall, the plan was that we start playing once the speeches ended… Whoever among the organizers thought that the speeches would only take 1/2 an hour was pretty naif, especially in this area where folks take their speeches very seriously.
We were ready and all hypered up on scheduled at 18h30. At 18h45 it became clear that the speeches would last another 45min at least. Not wanting to stay in the over hot and stuffy theater, this week’s heatwave had made its way inside so off we went to have a beer…
19 August 2009
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To present the 2009 – 2010 program, the Heure Bleue, one of the city’s theater and music organisms has organises an “open market” presentation tomorrow at 18h00. For around 45 min. the public is invited to browse among the theaters chairs where all 36 projects will have their own information display spread out on the ground floor.
Meanwhile on the balcony, yours truly…
26 April 2009
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Yesterday Blaise and I headed over to Bonny B. Browns recently opened blues club for a first evening of open stage jamming.
If you have a warped mind like mine and that makes you imagine musicians climbing over, biting and bashing each other with their instruments for a place on the stage and holding their ground, playing as long as possible…
7 April 2009
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A truly amazing thing has happened this month: public spaces all became non smoking overnight! I was sure that this area would continue to let folks smoke everywhere until the end of time, just two years ago a local restaurant manager was booed out of her job for just thinking such a thing…
But with the help of lovely spring weather there we where Dave and I, in a corner cafe that was packed both in and outside enjoying a glass of wine…
18 March 2009
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A friend sent me this link to an article about how mp3’s are changing the way we hear: The Sizzling Sound of Music. I say we, but admit to having no love of the mp3 format which sound flat, dull and compressed, especially if you compare it to a good LP. Yes, an actual vinyl record, exactly. I admit, I own quite a few of them, many bought back then when stores where making space for the all new “super sounding” compact disk. Thank you Mr. Cd!…