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Quick Different Skies - P3 update

2007-10-27 by Jim Combs

We had two P3s at Different Skies this year; mine and Jeff
Kunzelman's. Both were running v3 and, in addition to his sequencing
duties, Jeff got designated as master clock for the show, so he got to
keep track of those songs needing clock and what BPM each was running.
Worked like a charm.

We got to demonstrate the P3 at our "educational" event, where the
music class of the local high school comes out and gets a demo of
gear, of our playing, and gets to come up on stage to ask questions of
the musicians.

We used the P3 to kick things off by <cue Paul Nagle idea> getting 4
of the kids (3 women and 1 guy) to come up on stage. I had each of
them select 5 random notes across the keyboard each on a different
track to get a basic cycling set of patterns going (I used appegiator
entry, and each track was set to a different length, all FTS'ed to G
Aeolian). Then Jeff, brought in a MachineDrum kick, then a bassline,
then the whole stage joined in a jam. So the kids got to compose the
piece and the rest of us improvised a piece around it. It was cool.

I think the P3 figured prominently on 2 or 3 of the songs that made it
to the concert (we did 26 songs altogether). And they were a nightly
jam staple, helping get things kicked off or helping pulling chaos
into order. We had a bunch of hand percussion players this year, which
when layered over a nice P3 groove, was truly magical.

-Jim
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