I auditioned to play bass guitar at the national flute convention for the opening concert, and apparently I’ve been approved. whee! I’m going to Vegas! the band I’m playing with has mp3s on mp3.com, here: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/172/polly_moller.html. this will definitely be an educational experience. She’s a master of extended technique on flute, which she mixes with her own unique vocal style.
I’m using some of the five hours of field recordings I made at last thursday’s civil disobediance for the music for Aelita. Right now, I’m listening to the tape I made of the BLO. I’m not sure if I can use it, but I may post a link here, if I dump the Minidisc to my computer. It’s really… something.
we found a new cello player. She’s a grad student at Mills. Now we just need to reschedule all the rehersals. I still need to write software for Aelita. I hate being this last minute. Next time, I’ll be on top of things. really.
Ebay is the bomb sometimes. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2516767516
Scary because it’s true: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0316-08.htm
The blog note at the bottom is also interresting, but for different reasons.
A somewhat biased history of the tuba for parents of tuba players: http://www.bandparenting.net/tuba.html. It’s somewhat dismissive of Wagner Tubas. I think I’ve seen a bunch of those for sale on ebay. They’re all from Europe. I emailed questions to the sellers, but none of them know the answers.
http://www.craigslist.org/sfo/sfc/w4w/9682230.html Oddly compelling. I wonder what kind of music she likes.
Grad schools like me. I don’t know what to think. Then I get you’re-great email from somebody on a mailing list I’m subbed to. . .. Don’t these people realize that I was the second grader chasing people around with snot? I’m not cool. My music is amaturish. I can’t spell. If I were a better person, I’d be marching with the anarcho-communists against war, not messing around with burgeouise music and graduate school. Or I’d at least have the tapes and music done for tomorrow done by now. I at least got my trio written. The name is a pun. In Esperanto, it means “[the Esperanto name of my Esp teacher] Trio.” Bilingually, it means “Trio Trio.” In English, It’s “Trio [Proper Noun].” I have a midifile of it that goes way too fast and I can’t slow it down because protools is broken again. Listen to Trio Triopo. Of course, it’s completely student-y, since I’ve never written for those instruments before. I don’t even know if the flute will be drowned out irl or what.
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londonjack76: hello there
londonjack76: how r u doing???
electrogirls: hi
electrogirls: i’m looking for a sousaphone
electrogirls: do you have one?
londonjack76: what is that ??
londonjack76: please explain
electrogirls: it’s a type of tuba designed for playing while walking or marching
electrogirls: a regular tuba would be ok too, as long as there was a way to walk with it
londonjack76: hehe i am so stoned
londonjack76: and i can barely understant
londonjack76: d
londonjack76: what is a tuba
electrogirls: a tuba is a musical instrument.
electrogirls: it’s very low and usually made out of brass (but someties also plastic)
electrogirls: it sounds like “oompa oompa”
londonjack76: ahh wow i was so confused
londonjack76: i thought is was some sex tool
londonjack76: hehehe
electrogirls: there’s like 3 or 4 feet tall and weigh 60 lbs. you’d need a big bed to have sex with a tuba involved
electrogirls: they’re wide too
londonjack76: escellent
londonjack76: sexcellent
electrogirls: i guss not that much bigger than a really fat fifth grader
londonjack76: tahts good
londonjack76: so sorry no i dont have one
londonjack76: heheh are were you expecting me to have one of those??
electrogirls: maybe you have a friend with one?
londonjack76: comeon now
londonjack76: hehe i dont think so
electrogirls: i’m looking for a cheap one to play during anti-war riots
electrogirls: i don’t want to take my good one out in the street in case it gets clubbed by a cop or hit with a tear gas canister
londonjack76: yeah i agree with you
londonjack76: nopes i dont sorry
electrogirls: it would totally suck if a tear gas canister went in the bell (the bell is then end that sound comes out of, about 4 feet in diameter)
londonjack76: so your going to the riot??
electrogirls: you’d probably never be able to play it again without accidentally gassing people
electrogirls: well, i try to avoid riots
electrogirls: they’re dangerous
londonjack76: i know
londonjack76: are a cute women ??
londonjack76: if you are dont go
electrogirls: but sometimes you can be marching down the street, minding your own vuisiness with a few hundred other people, just blocking traffic and playing tunes
electrogirls: and then suddenly cops with tear gas and clubs are after you
londonjack76: hehe guys will be all after you ( drunk guys )
londonjack76: heheh
electrogirls: the women being arrested in san francisco on thursday were really really vute
electrogirls: cute
electrogirls: after guys started seeing them being arrested, tey went out to be arrested too
londonjack76: heheh i wouldlove to be arrested with a cute women
londonjack76: why dont we get arrested together
londonjack76: 🙂
electrogirls: anti-war protesters are hela cute
electrogirls: hella
electrogirls: (hella means “very”)
electrogirls: well, getting arrested would be fun, but a i need a cheap sousaphone first
londonjack76: ahh
londonjack76: hehe you and the sousaphone
londonjack76: hehe
electrogirls: a sousaphone is a tuba kind of shaped like a hula-hoop
electrogirls: you see them in marching bands
londonjack76: yeah i get it
londonjack76: now i know
If you see a sousaphone or marching tuba for free or cheap, I’m looking for one. I suddenly realized that I do not want to take my lap tuba to street protests. Anyway, if you see a free tuba or sousaphone, please grab it or let me know about it.
I figured that renting one is as bad as buying one, sicne I’d still have all the liability if something happened to it. Obviously, I would endeavor to treat any member of the tuba family with the utmost care, respect and dignity, but street protests being what they are… I saw cops moving bikes and letting them fall to their sides. Then I had a dream that they dropped my brass horn! aieee! I woke up screaming. So I’d actually prefer a fiberglass horn, since they can take it with no more than a scuffing. Anyway, so if you see one even with gaping holes in it, I can fix those. Massive valve problems I might not be able to fix, but gaping holes are no problem!