Synthesizer/Computer/MIDI workshop at a filk con?

[poltr1]

I know I'm in the minority here, since most filkers are guitarists and often play solo.

I'm a woodwind and keyboard player, and play more often in ensembles than solo. (As the button on my bass clarinet strap says, "Plays Well With Others".) I rarely get to jam at filk cons anymore because R (and M) are ready to go home around Sunday at around 2 pm. (It's M's naptime.)

I've been kicking around the idea of doing a session at an upcoming filk con (most likely OVFF) where I'd give a workshop or lead a roundtable/birds-of-a-feather discussion about electronic music in filk, demo my Minimoog, or cover the basics of composing with computer-based music tools (e.g. Cakewalk).

I know that filkertom and peteralway use computers to compose all or part of their music.

Before I go ahead and indicate my intention to the OVFF committee member in charge of programming.....Who'd be interested in attending such a session?

And I'll also ask: Who's ever heard me play and/or sing?

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I would love to see more wind instruments and synths supporting live performance at filk, so even though I wouldn't actually be part of the workshop, I'd like to know it was happening.

I've heard you play some, and I'd like to have the chance to actually work with you, but I'm not experienced enough at playing with others to be able to do it easily, and we'd most likely need to find some chance to practice first. The catch-22 is that if you're smooth enough to fit in behind people who aren't used to you, so you can support without throwing them off, you'll be welcome, but without practice doing it you can't develop that smoothness.

I can't really recall hearing you sing.

[poltr1]

Sounds like a plan. Scheduling the practice time together is the big challenge.

That's what I did with Peter at last year's OVFF. He was looking for a deep grumbly double-bass sound for "Polystrene Shipwright". We had a sound that was close, but in the end, he decided to go it alone for the one-shot. And I was okay with that.