15.9.08

sounds, noises, dances of defeat and triumph

It's September, and having had a marvelous Burn in the NV desert, I am back to updating gear, installing new sounds, and getting to grips with Mark Waters' new film, The Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past. It's early stages, and I am searching for themes and tones at present. I like to find a lot of character in the music, rather than simply do a standard fill-in-the-blanks kind of score. So I am exploring interesting instrumental voicings- you know, bagpipes, ukuleles and such. It's fun, but so far I haven't figured out what sounds will really stick to the film (make sense with the movie without sticking out like a sore thumb). The studio gear has been a bit grumbly. I have one computer which always requires me to do a dance each morning before it'll work... you know, turn it on, launch an app, have the app crash, reset something, relaunch... and then it works! Same thing, every day! I should give the machine a name so I can talk to it. Meanwhile I did a gig in August which was great fun (thanks Christy Crowl), my first in ages, and played on Meredith Meyer's radio broadcast. And my musical mayhem events [http://notoriousdespicable.blogspot.com] keep happening, and there's another coming up in 2 weeks. So things are fun.