scraping the walls of midsummer
It's been a while since I've actually posted any real good news and while enough crap has surfaced right away to threaten to put a damper on it, I feel I ought to share it now that things have solidified.
So for the first time since I've arrived in Portland, I'm in a position to actually resuscitate my pet project into something of an actual working project AND (drumroll, please) as a functioning group. Dan, Chlapec's friend, has agreed to join as a bassist. Also, since Matt and I have compatible equipment again and that means not only will we be able to swap files back and forth, but his girlfriend, Didi, has agreed to join as a keyboardist and vocalist. The timing of it probably couldn't be any more perfect as Dan is switching to a schedule similar to mine (where we'd both have weekends off) and it was around the same time I was asked if I was in any position to be performing again since it's been nearly a year since that happened. Unsure of how I'd get things together this time, and the biggest suggestion/criticism that I've received is my necessity to have a group, I submitted a proposal of sorts to the Someday Lounge Incubator asking if they'd be interested in including us in on later in the summer if they'd have a visual artist interested in doing something set to our performance. We're set to perform in mid-August with an artist, whom I believe will setting computer animation to, I'm assuming 20 minutes (about four to five of our songs); Dan and I have to figure out which songs we'll be performing and we'll actually be meeting up later this evening to discuss just that before heading out tonight to check out June's Incubator. If the experience goes well and we can work together ok, he's offered to stay on board longer to help me put together an album (finally) afterwards. I don't know how it well turn out from there, so I'm not going to concern myself with it just yet since there's plenty of other things going on occupying my mind at the moment.
I do have to say that I haven't felt this excited about things for a while. I am both hoping for and dreading a momentum to pick up.
So for the first time since I've arrived in Portland, I'm in a position to actually resuscitate my pet project into something of an actual working project AND (drumroll, please) as a functioning group. Dan, Chlapec's friend, has agreed to join as a bassist. Also, since Matt and I have compatible equipment again and that means not only will we be able to swap files back and forth, but his girlfriend, Didi, has agreed to join as a keyboardist and vocalist. The timing of it probably couldn't be any more perfect as Dan is switching to a schedule similar to mine (where we'd both have weekends off) and it was around the same time I was asked if I was in any position to be performing again since it's been nearly a year since that happened. Unsure of how I'd get things together this time, and the biggest suggestion/criticism that I've received is my necessity to have a group, I submitted a proposal of sorts to the Someday Lounge Incubator asking if they'd be interested in including us in on later in the summer if they'd have a visual artist interested in doing something set to our performance. We're set to perform in mid-August with an artist, whom I believe will setting computer animation to, I'm assuming 20 minutes (about four to five of our songs); Dan and I have to figure out which songs we'll be performing and we'll actually be meeting up later this evening to discuss just that before heading out tonight to check out June's Incubator. If the experience goes well and we can work together ok, he's offered to stay on board longer to help me put together an album (finally) afterwards. I don't know how it well turn out from there, so I'm not going to concern myself with it just yet since there's plenty of other things going on occupying my mind at the moment.
I do have to say that I haven't felt this excited about things for a while. I am both hoping for and dreading a momentum to pick up.