Sunday, October 9, 2011

Guitar Circle Sundays s. 2 #5, 10-2-11

In attendance: Victor, Rick, Chris (scribe), Brad, Dev, David

We all arrive between 6:00 and 6:15. After getting ourselves set up, we play a game with guitars wherein a circler is chosen to decide the timbre of a circulation - this could be a note played on a certain part of the neck, in any relation to the soundhole, picked, thumbed, plucked, slapped - so that the other players must listen and follow suit. We go around until everyone gets a chance to be "it", and then we prehearse Intergalactic Boogie Express and Calliope before a pre-show dispersal.

Victor has an idea in the green room for a circulation using mirrors before we head on around 7:40. There is a false start to Love is Green, but a heavy silence falls following the complete performance. We are asked for an encore and oblige.

After the audience has left, we get some constructive feedback from a special guest, and turn our attention to working on Opening as a large group. The quartet circulation needs extra time to get on their feet, and apply some of the strategies that were used in the small group meeting earlier in the week (with the added spacial distance contributing even more challenge). It is a lot of effort, though our guest approves of the direction of the work. After we have given it our best for a while, we tear down and are out not long after 10:30.

No comments:

Post a Comment