Looks like Japan Air ran into some car problems and cancelled for tonight

The second Phasmatodea show was last night at Bickett Gallery.

Seemed to go pretty well. I enjoyed it. Whether or not
anyone did I’m not sure about ;-> But folks seems to
like it, so I’ve got no complaints.

Got there around 8pm, Birds In A Meadow and Projexorcism
were there, just starting setup. We setup in the back.
Got everything setup, sound check’ed, and tuned.

(thats marty from Birds In A Meadow in the back…)

Birds in a Meadow started up a little after 9:30pm. Jazzy
saxophone accompanying laptop based processor and what
sounded like graunular synths. Pretty cool.

We started up shortly after 10pm, which was cool since
it allowed a couple friends to make it out to show after
work.

We setup opposite the way we did last time (me on the
left, badger to the right.) The theory being that since
I spent most of the last show facing to the right staring
at a wall, this time I’d be more facing the crowd.

But the nerves and some unconscious habits caused me
to end up facing away from badger and the audience for
most of the crowd. I really need to get out of that
habit.

We decided on a vague theme for the first piece of “humidity”. So
lots of bubbly bits and whatnot. I’d describe what exactly we
played, but I can’t really remember it that well.

As far as I know, know one got a recording of the show. Normally
I don’t mind not recording anything, but I kind of feel like I
should at least listen to a recording of live shows to hear
what exactly it is I’m inflicting upon people.

I’m not sure I remember anything about the second piece
we did. But a couple of folks said it was there favorite.
Go figure.

Third piece I remember bits of. Mostly starting out with a very
minimal digital glitchy type loop over some drones badger had
setup. From there it eventually merged into me playing what
I at least thought was a nice melodic bit. It seemed to
me that we hadn’t been that melodic to that point, so I’d
figured that would be a good way to end stuff.

Overall, it went well. No one threw anything, and folks
seemed to applaud at least ;->

My only complaints were about my own playing. I felt if
I wasn’t being as interactive with badger’s playing as
I generally like to be. It’s kind of a pet peeve of mine
when improvised groups seem to all be working independtly
of each other, so I try to avoid that. Last night however,
I wasn’t as pro active about that as I should be.

I also felt like I was having trouble coming up with interesting
parts. Not until the last piece was I happy with the melodic
bits I was coming up with. The other issue was I felt like
I was over playing a bit and dominating the mix. Part of
that I think was nervous warping my concept of time. Aka,
I’d play something for 10 seconds or so and my brain starts
telling “okay! enough! move onto something else!” when I
probabaly should of let stuff gel and develop a bit more.

Pretty good attendance at the show for this kind of
event, and I thank folks for coming out. Much appreciated.

And thanks to base10 for the photos via
saspenguin camera.

Tuesday: Tommy Gun, Maple Stave, Polyna at Local 506

Thursday: 919noise night at Bickett Gallery fetuating Birds In A Meadow, phasmatodea, and Projexorcism. Projexorcism is pretty cool. Phasmatodea ain’t bad either.

Friday: Dynamite Brothers, Japan Air
at Go! Room 4.

Japan Air article in ESP Magazine

Phasmatodea practice at badgers place
today.

Took over the two new toys, a Moog Moogerfooger Low Pass Filter and a Prohecysound
Infinitphase. Been coveting badgers Low Pass Filter for about a year, and saw one cheap
on ebay so picked it up. Through, hopefully it wont rip the universe apart as it’s the first
piece of gear in my large gear collection or badgers large gearcollection that we have in
common[1].

I managed to forget the power supply to the Infinitphase (and it’s a 16v ac power supply…
wacky Australians…), so it didn’t get used. Did make good use of the Low Pass though.
Even though I managed to hook it up incorrectly and was getting a very weird hard
to predict distortion for the first piece. Kind of had me disoriented a bit, but made
do anyway. Third piece started a nice pretty cm7-dm7 chord progression that
eventually ended with both of us playing low melodic bits underneath.

Also, looks like Phasmatodea is playing the 3rd 919noise
night this Thursay, the 17th. So come out and watch me and badger make
weird noises.

Don’t start browsing the web looking for effects pedals when your bored.

SCHUMANN PLL
Modmax Filters
chicipick
rainbowrandom (posted that before, but they
have newer insaner stuff)

If there are David Sedaris fans in the area,
he’s going to be doing a reading from his new book
at Quail Ridge Books tomorrow afternoon.

retroCRUSH: Cool Song Parts

List of 50 greatest parts of songs. Retrocrush usually
does a pretty good job with its Top N list, so have
a look…

All things must end. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to dust.
Often a time of sadness and grief, and loss. Losses
of this nature can show the true human spirit of
those that are closest as they mourn the passing.

But in this case, the time had come. The end was
long overdue by most accounts. The evil perpetuated
on the masses can not be forgotten, even in this
time when the desire to forgive is so strong. It
is so easy to forget the horrors and pain induced
to people both here, and around the world. Supporter
or not, it was impossible to escape the wraith and
dismay brought upon this world.

Do not forgive for the simple reason of a passing.
That is the cowards way out, and the only way to
prevent this in the future is to make it clear
to the youth the dangerous influence and control
that can be wrought when fame is given unto those
that did not deserve it. Once evil, always evil.
Never forget this.

I’m talking about Creed
breaking up of course. What did you think I was talking about?