I went along last night and eventually set up the equipment I’d taken up the back of Handmade. I had waited till 8.30 in the hope that some others or elses would turn up but nobody with stuff musical ended up in the vicinity.
I was so worried about that but should be over it as it’s happened lots of times before regarding my art. I suppose I’m not the aquaintance type and just have a few close friends so I haven’t got that network of musical buddies to call on. That said, which is a little too self depracating, I didn’t really do much to advertise the show… well almost nothing and my little talk to the Vitamin S crew on monday wasn’t very long on info and quite short on charm I suppose.
So I’m over it and learned quite alot about the space though I could have learned more and will go next time with an attitude adjustment.
The space is like a highpass filter that works really weirdly. It’s hard to get any volume at the end of the long hall I set up in yet the highs and the mids can be heard down the front even with music playing on the internal system. So the noise floor is quite high to start with and then once you get a bit of volume and a certain amount of balance then the highs and mids are thrown down the room while the bass bounces around where your playing.
I only had my small amp, which was made originally to test fx at home without lots of setup and big amps, which would hardly be a single watt of power and it just couldn’t cut through the ambient noise.
So it’s a very problematic place and I’ll go back next time with a bigger amp and a better mixer.
But the guy who was working there, doing burgers and coffee, was really encouraging and said I really should keep it up as the sounds he was able to hear were interesting and intriguing and that it was worth following up on for a month or two just to see what happens. I suppose I agree and will go with that attitude adjustement and live by the name of the thing.
I had the Boss looper so I could build up a host of repeating sounds to jam over and I think I’ll carry on with that particular notion.
Next Wednesday is the 10 acre block workshop at Vitamin S which rules out the 16th and I’ve got an idea that the 23rd will be a totally spazed out chrissy shopping frenzy but I think the 30th will be the next installment.
I’ll redo the flyer with a mind to starting yet another blog, No Rules… except to listen, and then take it from there… actually maybe the 23rd would be good?
Now we go here, the No Rules Blog