Analogue-sequencer

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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> 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.

Ah Jim, sounds wonderful! Maybe next year... 

Going all misty-eyed now....

Paul

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "Softroom" <softroom@...>
wrote:
> Ah Jim, sounds wonderful! Maybe next year... 
> 
> Going all misty-eyed now....

You and Nick were greatly missed, but we made sure you were there in
spirit! In fact, the "team" made sure "refreshments" were consumed in
enough mass quantities to meet your high standards;^)

Seriously, the event jumped up a whole level in my estimation this
year, $100K sound system and a professional sound engineer allowed the
musicianship to really shine. There'll be fertile ground waiting when
the prodigal sons return!

-Jim

> You and Nick were greatly missed, but we made sure you were there in
> spirit! In fact, the "team" made sure "refreshments" were consumed in
> enough mass quantities to meet your high standards;^)

Ah, you guys do me proud!

> Seriously, the event jumped up a whole level in my estimation this
> year, $100K sound system and a professional sound engineer allowed the
> musicianship to really shine. There'll be fertile ground waiting when
> the prodigal sons return!

Hehe, I look forward to it. Busy schedule ahead but I'm ready for more time 
in the dessert.

Just making V-Synth mantras and sequences that are not in C minor, which is 
jolly nice fun.

Paul