I've noticed a big drop of enthusiasm about Montreal from everyone involved. But I hope this trend will reverse itself as the moving date draws closer.
I plan to take a bit of a break next month. I've been slightly overdoing it with the social events every night for the past two months. Except for planning future lab.sythèse shows, which I can mostly do from home on the computer, and hosting lab.synthèse 03, I plan on staying home most of the time. I want to take some time to relax and also to think about and work on my own music.
Have you listened to my experiment called Ringtonality? I don't think it's worth much as a finished piece. But it's part of my experimentation with new techniques and slowly evolving sound textures. It's nowhere near what I want to achieve with this, but I haven't put that much effort into it yet, because I haven't had time. Mostly, I'm letting the ideas simmer and looking forward to putting them into practice.
Everything that you've posted on LiveJournal I believe I've heard. Was this the Loscil informed thing, even if it wasn't actually informed by Loscil? Because that was very good. In fact, I'm listening to Murcof's latest album, the style of which could lend itself well toward what you're doing. When I saw him live, he played a few songs off of this. It was amazing. Also, what you were doing works well with live drums as they don't necessarily need to stick to a fixed tempo.
My enthusiasm hasn't dropped, but my expectations have. I saw the enthusiasm/expectations of the others fall slightly and was/am aware of the snowball effect. I am still highly optomisitc, I just no longer have a defined image in my head.
Your regular shows will be a great way to keep the energy and motivation going. Hopefully this will provide a platform for us to evolve on. Do you make any money out of these shows? And is it a percentage? Of the door or something? And the bar gets what they make off drinks? Do the acts preform for free?
The song you're thinking of is Endomorphous. I sent it to you via e-mail and in your reply you mentioned that it reminded you of Loscil. That was, out of all my recent experiments in this direction, what I consider the most successful and satisfactory. I like that song pretty much exactly as it is and feel no desire to change it.
But since then I have posted two more experiments on LJ. One was called Church Bells and the other one, quite recent, is called Ringtonality. I can search for the links and point you to them later.
So far, the lab.synthèse shows have been moderately successful in terms of the number of people showing up. But I have made a profit with every show so far. The venue is EXTREMELY generous and they offer a better deal than anything else I've ever seen in Montreal. Basically, the room and the services of the sound technician are free, you keep the door, AND they give you 15% of bar sales. It's insane.
If we could pack that room full of people, we'd be rich.
PS: when I say I've made a profit, I mean the show has. I only keep a small cut to cover my expenses (printing posters, etc.). I give 100% of what's left to the musicians.
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I plan to take a bit of a break next month. I've been slightly overdoing it with the social events every night for the past two months. Except for planning future lab.sythèse shows, which I can mostly do from home on the computer, and hosting lab.synthèse 03, I plan on staying home most of the time. I want to take some time to relax and also to think about and work on my own music.
Have you listened to my experiment called Ringtonality? I don't think it's worth much as a finished piece. But it's part of my experimentation with new techniques and slowly evolving sound textures. It's nowhere near what I want to achieve with this, but I haven't put that much effort into it yet, because I haven't had time. Mostly, I'm letting the ideas simmer and looking forward to putting them into practice.
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Was this the Loscil informed thing, even if it wasn't actually informed by Loscil?
Because that was very good.
In fact, I'm listening to Murcof's latest album, the style of which could lend itself well toward what you're doing.
When I saw him live, he played a few songs off of this. It was amazing.
Also, what you were doing works well with live drums as they don't necessarily need to stick to a fixed tempo.
My enthusiasm hasn't dropped, but my expectations have. I saw the enthusiasm/expectations of the others fall slightly and was/am aware of the snowball effect.
I am still highly optomisitc, I just no longer have a defined image in my head.
Your regular shows will be a great way to keep the energy and motivation going. Hopefully this will provide a platform for us to evolve on.
Do you make any money out of these shows?
And is it a percentage? Of the door or something? And the bar gets what they make off drinks? Do the acts preform for free?
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But since then I have posted two more experiments on LJ. One was called Church Bells and the other one, quite recent, is called Ringtonality. I can search for the links and point you to them later.
So far, the lab.synthèse shows have been moderately successful in terms of the number of people showing up. But I have made a profit with every show so far. The venue is EXTREMELY generous and they offer a better deal than anything else I've ever seen in Montreal. Basically, the room and the services of the sound technician are free, you keep the door, AND they give you 15% of bar sales. It's insane.
If we could pack that room full of people, we'd be rich.
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