17 Jan 2012

Whoops, was supposed to do this yesterday. Was too busy playing music for old people and getting stressed out in the studio with Ben.

It was good experience playing at the Age Concern Centre yesterday. Was kinda hard to find a park though. All the parks on the block were 15 minute parking places. After driving around the block twice, I drove up their driveway - which was incredibly narrow, and the carpark at the back was rather small. Leaving at the end of my performance was a test of my reversing ability haha. Anyway, my performance was a good challenge because obviously, no amps or distortion, just acoustic instruments. Played classical guitar and did some improv for half an hour, then did some piano improv for another half an hour. Piano improv is great if your music theory knowledge is airtight - I mean, here's me modulating all over the place and I could have sworn I heard one of them folks say "Is he playing a B flat???" Good times haha.

So after that I headed over to Te Mata peak to Ben's studio, and the equipment played up again. Must not like me... at least there's a bit more room to more in the recording room now. We had a bit of a drum off afterwards but I'm sure everyone could guess who won that one haha!

So anyway I'm still doing instrumental stuff in the meantime, check out Hallucinate here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3hAnglQD8, I demonstrate my new ability to sidechain in this. A lot of people seem to like it, so check it out here. Otherwise thats basically my musical week in a nutshell. Cya! =)