SoundWIRE concert friday at CCRMA

im performing in a concert on friday consisting of about 40 players...like a big orchestra.

around 10 performers will be in new york
10 or so will be at ucsd in san diego
and then about 20 of us are at CCRMA

its a candy coated cacophony of colliding crashes, clanks, and creaks. no really. it's pretty difficult to coordinate 30+ musicians, especially over the wire and with instruments ranging from classical violin to homecoded-transducer-glitch-distortomatic. yet believe it or not, theres been a couple (read, precisely two) times this semester when we've hit that sweet spot and really made magic.

anyway, i've been playing the harmonica basically cause it's what i have. pauline oliveros (a living legend) sat in last week, offering great words of encouragement; telling us we sucked at first but noting that it was really just our frustration at a continent-wide soundcheck that took just under 2 hours to kind of complete. looking at it that way, it was awesome to see all of our aggression explode, and then subside into quite a tame, melodically sound piece.

anyway, you'd hope it'd be broadcast but i bet most of the tech goes into wiring us into RPI in new york and ucsd in san diego. hopefully youtubes will follow later.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/soundwire/course/