Summer Updates (July 2010)
summer is going mostly well. i started by cleaning out the garage to create a makeshift studio/rehearsal space and although it’s nothing fancy it was good enough to finish the final pickup recordings of my alt-classcial album. editing is done and i’m working on the final mixes. additionally like i did on ‘retrace our steps’ i’m working on a creating a supplimental graphic libretto to accompany the album for my secular oratorio; ‘life’s too short’. if all goes well i’m hoping to at least release a few singles by labor day and have the whole album done early this fall.
finally all the hacker unpleasantness is finished and this website is back up and mostly restored after i finally found the two backdoors that were allowing hackers to inject javascript into this site’s headers. after a few months of trying to fix it myself i finally gave up and paid the professionals (thanks sucuri security). still not really sure how it was hacked, but because it didn’t spread to my other blog i’m pretty hopeful it’s going to be an isolated incident.
i’m also starting to work out the planning for the 2nd annual midnight performance of terry riley’s “In C” . after talking to a few people we all figured it would be easier for everybody to attend if it were in the fall. right now i’m looking to have it as part of shane cadman’s RealNewMusic festival in whittier (september 18th 2010) and if this works out it would be a midnight show on friday sept 17th (which means midnight friday night (saturday night is the festival where i’m performing my music for controllers. we still need to iron out the details and post more soon but one big adjustment we are thinking about is having 3 open rehearsals on different sides of town to encourage a wider group of musicians to come out and play.
almost forgot… i’m also just started scheduling the recording sessions of my ‘requiem for a high homicide enclave’ for this fall and it’s one example in which these furlough days are working out in our favor. if all goes as planned it will allow bruce gallego an extended 4 day weekend to travel down from stockton to see his girlfriend and get a few days of recording in.
as you can see the last few months have all been about tying up loose ends before i start any new projects and i’m looking forward to clearing out these shelves and getting back to writing and performing again soon.
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