The show at the ALTLib was INTENSE! Never have I ever employed so many cords. The set up was physically a feat and even with 90 minutes I was breathless when done. Audience participation is what made it. Here are a few pics below. What did I learn? I want to streamline my rig. What are the essential elements? I need to be able to float into the space, drop my kit, sound check and go. I learned a lot.
Since then I’ve been a lot of places! Reno, Jackson, Big Sky and Bend. It was so cold, below freezing most days and subzero most the time in Montana and Wyoming. It didn’t start out snowing but by the second week it seemed to be snowing all over the world. Even when we got back home, to Bellingham, at 75 feet above sea level there was a foot of snow on the ground. Once it warmed up the snow disappeared from my driveway but Mt Baker was blanketed. Last Sunday was the best.
Sunshine on Mt Baker
In other news, I’ve been selected to be a Sustainability Fellow at Western Washington University and I was awarded a Summer Research Grant to work on my somasonic sculpture about water. I think the work will use snow fall data from Mt Baker and Tahoe. I’m trying to learn Max right now and Reaper! Max looks amazing but so complex. Still it’s the app for data-sonification according to my Music department friends. Plus I love the learning process. As a beginner, we have less expectations and sometimes really amazing things can happen. Which reminds me of the mantra I used to get me through my first year here. No expectations: Do your best and you’ll have no regrets. Thinking about that now as I move into more uncharted territory.
Zoom Spoon Carving class, 2022. Thankfully, the last remote teaching day….hopefully, of the quarter.