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Author: Roshi on December 03 2007 Viewed 2006 times. 17 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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It’s been a while since I played a live show, but when it rains, it pours. I’m gonna do 3 shows in december, all pretty different…
December 6 - at p:ear gallery (809 SW Alder) - probably at 6 or 7 ish for first thursday
December 12 - Someday Lounge (125 NW 5th) - playing with Unrecognizable Now
December 17 - Someday Lounge - opening for Umami, The Positive Jam (Jim’s Band) and Demi Batard
I’m especially excited for the unrec now show…I have been playing cello with mapmap and matt these past few weeks and it’s been fun working on a piece to perform with them. It’s gonna start out drone-y and then get plinky (toy pianos and xylophones!) and droney again.
As always, you can see and hear snippets of my shoegazer cello act at: link
Sorry I haven't really been posting as of late...I've been a little depressed lately and this biochem class I'm taking is kicking my balls. It's the next step to a PhD in computational biology, but this class has been making me so miserable that I don't know if I can do another 4 years of school if it's going to be like this.
Cello-wise, still working on the 1st Bach prelude. It's much more fluid lately, and it's been really interesting to work on the same piece for 5 months - there are so many directions and interpretations to explore, tempo-wise, phrasing-wise, dynamics-wise. Looking at the music on the page, it's mostly 16th notes, but playing with tempo (slowdowns and speedups), it really comes alive. Casals said it was 13 years before he felt comfortable playing the cello suites in public. I can believe him - there is a lot to explore... | |
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12/03/07
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ricemutt said: "good luck on the school stuff...
I hate school, haha
Yeah, i worked on the same bach piece for over a year and then finally played it at a recital, it was really satisfying. It's weird, when you know a piece so well you can just kind of look around the room while you're playing it, haha.. and not even have to look at the instrument. I love that feeling, you just start playing and you're 100% absorbed. Man, maybe I should get a cello ;)"
Yeah, I'm not quite at that level of expertise, but I'm getting there. 
12/04/07
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mapmap
yes! i can't wait for our unrecnow/oo-ray show. i am especially excited since you told me that it's at the someday lounge instead of towne lounge.
Yay.
p.s. this weather stinks. 
12/04/07
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umami
i'm stoked to play a show with you! the someday lounge like a great venue...
12/04/07
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Yeah, it's gonna be sweet!
12/06/07
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Yay! It's tonight!
And after my biochem final! So hopefully I'll be relaxed and play well.
12/06/07
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opticecho
wow, good luck on the biochem final. If I don't see you tonight, I'll be at one of your coming shows for sure!!
12/06/07
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mlbot
Can we quiz you tonight?
What's the Km of Histidine?
How many carbons does Aspartic Acid have?
Whats your favorite color?
12/06/07
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Answers:
1) FU
2) FU2
3) FU-schia
12/09/07
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tunalicker
i just picked up a cello from craigslist last month. love it so far. i have no string skills.
awesome instrument
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