After taking off a year from all filk conventions, I attended OVFF this year ( Read more... )

Over the past few years, while I've been dreaming about the synth and DAW (digital audio workstation) gear I'd love to get, I've also been thinking about some projects to put this gear to good use ( Read more... )

This past weekend was the annual Ohio Valley Filk Festival in Columbus, Ohio.

Fri 10/21: Took the afternoon off from work so I could arrive at the con at a decent time. Met with jslove, whom I was rooming with foro the weekend. Found the registration table -- they were tucked away in a small room instead of being out in the open. Participated in the ( Read more... )

On the Filkers group in Facebook, there was a suggestion for a new filk convention, using the name "Concino" (Latin for "to sing in chorus" or "to play together ( Read more... )

Yesterday, allisona posted about the history of her group, Urban Tapestry, and all the people who have influenced the group from its inception until now. She also asked about everyone else's musical links.

( Here's my filk music history. )

Just got back from Ohio Valley Filk Fest 26. I was there only today. HIghlights for me:
* Chamberfilk with 10 players (and 2 bass clarinets! Thanks quadrivium!)
* The dinner with autographedcat and kitanzi at BD's Mongolian Grill
* Playing a duet written by peteralway
* [Finally] meeting a few more filkers I hadn't met before, like sweetmusic_27, ladymondegreen, judifilksign, and shadowriderhopeThanks to all who reached out to me and made ( Read more... )

Had lunch with maedbh7 yesterday. One of the many things we talked about was how the filk community is oriented toward solo musicians. Ensemble players such as her and myself don't often get a chance to perform ( Read more... )

I was having dinner with longtime friend Tom P this evening, as he was returning from a business trip to Hamilton (Ohio). At one point in the conversation, we were discussing the works of Todd Rundgren, and he mentioned "Singring And The Glass Guitar", from the "Ra" album. It's an (I think) 18-minute story song -- an electrified fairy tale, as it ( Read more... )

I started getting into music when I was young. When I was 5, my parents got me a three-octave, 12-button-chord Organaire organ for Christmas. They thought it was a good way for me to develop my eye-hand coordination, which at the time was pretty horrible. They soon upgraded the organ to a Thomas Californian 261 organ. I guess they liked the ( Read more... )

I'll try to keep things short. I no longer have gobs of time to do rambling posts, and many of you don't have time to read such posts. So I'll whittle it down to several bullet points.

Happy memories:
* Bringing athenawindsong to her first filk con and first OVFF ( Read more... )