Preparing for a gig, part 2
week 2 and nothing got done
Reminder: I'll be performing in Seattle on
Saturday, December 11th at The Living Room in Fremont as part of the Texture
Series.
So I spent the last week in
Chicago. I decided not to bring any of my equipment, but I figured I'd find some
time to go through my personal sample library and maybe create some new sounds
for the show, as well as create or audition some new reaktor patches that I
could use for the gig.
It turned out
however that I was a little ambitious about my free time in the windy city and
so I pretty much got nothing done on the audio front. I did however get a lot of
cool video footage from my hotel room and Millennium Park and various other
locales around town, so I'll be incorporating some of that into the videos for
the show, so it wasn't a totally lost
week.
I did also firm up the equipment
for the show as well. I'll have my electric Cello, Repeater, Alesis Wedge,
AirFX, Kaoss Pad II running into my FA-101 and laptop. I'll use the Wedge for a
non-software reverb to free up some processor on the laptop and will use the
AirFX and Kaoss Pad for their processing, but also to make the show a bit more
interesting visually. I haven't decided how I want to integrate the cello into
this. A part of me is concerned about not having a mixer in case my laptop
crashes. Since I have the cello, I could keep going, but the wiring would start
to get difficult since I want to route the cello into the laptop as well. I
could use a send from the mixer to feed the laptop, but I'd like the two to
share the reverb as well, which would eat two sends. I'll figure that part out
soon, but for the moment, I've got my external boxes and my laptop set up so I
can try it out, should be fun.
10 days
to go!
Posted: Wed - December
1, 2004 at 02:54 PM