on wednesday we went to troy, ny to see a show by secret chiefs 3. it was really good, wow! as one would expect from them, there were microtonal guitars, crazy time signatures, and ridiculous synchronization. it was the kind of show that makes you wish you spent 10,000 hours learning an instrument. but they're not just good in a navel-gazey intellectual way. they also make you want to jump around!
now we are back home, but we have to go to the boston area tomorrow to perform a show ourselves. i'm doing live music(? it's not the most musical but it's sounds for sure!) i finally figured out exactly what i'm gonna do, and it involves live sampling a radio with granular synthesis, vocals(!), and a continuumini (a small controller that you play with one finger and it also has a synth built into it). i was thinking of incorporating some pre recorded sounds/samples but i was able to get enough variety from my live techniques that i didn't feel the need to. so it's all live... and pretty improvisational (since i don't know what will be on the radio, and then i have to play along with those samples). i hope it goes well!
