Fiddle In The Night, Etc.
Yep, been a few days but the days are rolling right along, and not a lot of time to post. Guess that's better than the opposite.
The other night I went over to shadesofwinter's place for, of all things, a jam session. He has a sort-of experimental band called Idoru (after the William Gibson book) and wanted to see how some of my homemade faux-Mongolian instruments sounded. [Guess I haven't written much about these: a while ago I made up several homemade instruments out of junk I had lying around the workshop. They outwardly resemble and function like musical instruments in the same way as the traveller who was hiking in Nepal stopped in a guesthouse for the night, saw "pizza" on the menu, ordered it and was served a chapati covered with ketchup and melted yak cheese. One day I'll take some pictures.] I brought over the Small One-String Tin Can Fiddle, even found an old lump of rosin after a brief search (I still don't have my workshop area squared away).
Anyway, we laid some of this over some guitar improvisation by John and some keyboard stuff by shadesofwinter, and it sounds really eerie. If my effort ever makes it onto the CD, I will be credited with playing the Cambodian Death Fiddle. It was a lot of fun and I'd like to do it again some day, who wouldn't?
They're making a movie at my place of work all this week - some kind of driect-to-cable thing called "Sorority Wars", at title like that could be good but instead it's Faith Ford trying to get her daughter to sign up for the same sorority. The front of the building is done up as one of the buildings of "Tate University", which includes the Medical Ethics Department, and later they are clearing out our best boardroom to do it over as a dorm. Sheesh. The halls are full of extras made up as students (well, maybe some of them are, but as the movie takes place in summer in a warmer place they sure look cold as the weather has done little else but strew wind and rain about) and grotty-looking technicians with little radios growing out of them.
Off to the Lewis Black show tonight at the Royal Theatre! Expensive but this should be good.
The other night I went over to shadesofwinter's place for, of all things, a jam session. He has a sort-of experimental band called Idoru (after the William Gibson book) and wanted to see how some of my homemade faux-Mongolian instruments sounded. [Guess I haven't written much about these: a while ago I made up several homemade instruments out of junk I had lying around the workshop. They outwardly resemble and function like musical instruments in the same way as the traveller who was hiking in Nepal stopped in a guesthouse for the night, saw "pizza" on the menu, ordered it and was served a chapati covered with ketchup and melted yak cheese. One day I'll take some pictures.] I brought over the Small One-String Tin Can Fiddle, even found an old lump of rosin after a brief search (I still don't have my workshop area squared away).
Anyway, we laid some of this over some guitar improvisation by John and some keyboard stuff by shadesofwinter, and it sounds really eerie. If my effort ever makes it onto the CD, I will be credited with playing the Cambodian Death Fiddle. It was a lot of fun and I'd like to do it again some day, who wouldn't?
They're making a movie at my place of work all this week - some kind of driect-to-cable thing called "Sorority Wars", at title like that could be good but instead it's Faith Ford trying to get her daughter to sign up for the same sorority. The front of the building is done up as one of the buildings of "Tate University", which includes the Medical Ethics Department, and later they are clearing out our best boardroom to do it over as a dorm. Sheesh. The halls are full of extras made up as students (well, maybe some of them are, but as the movie takes place in summer in a warmer place they sure look cold as the weather has done little else but strew wind and rain about) and grotty-looking technicians with little radios growing out of them.
Off to the Lewis Black show tonight at the Royal Theatre! Expensive but this should be good.