Inexperienced sound engineers( to be read as "pissed off because I've to sit here all day and help bands who don't know anything about their instruments, amps or effects processors only to be blamed for bad sound afterward") start right at the top. Very often have we landed up on a MASSIVE stage with some pretty good sound equipment around and then comes along a soundie who hikes up the delay when we ask for a little reverb. Send over your own sound guy to the console and these guys loose it. Attacks on ego, inappropriate comments and eventually bad sound are what we end up with. Though on the flip side of things you get this humble chap, who will step out with you for a smoke before the sound-check, try and understand what the band and their music is about, personally help us set up on stage and the finish us off with the right amount of tweaking during the performance. Once we met a soundie who also owned the company that did sound, he did the most running around I've seen a sound vendor do.
Then there's the sound vendor(read as, "i bought all this equipment because lots of people wanted to hire them"). Sound vendors are fascinating people. I think everyone should interact with a few of them once in a lifetime at least. their optimism and confidence should be an example to every human alive. They'll never say, "No, that can't be done". Never. But, you'd almost never meet a vendor at a gig. All his minions will run around trying to figure out which cable goes in where and it is usually completely improvised and experimental. The outcome of this is sometimes disastrous and results in exploding equipment, full-body electrocution and under rare circumstances impotency. I would at this point like to remind you of the soundie we met, who was also the vendor and did all that necessary running around. Fabulous man, will introduce you to him sometime.
I'm not even going to enter the event organizers' domain. They're very hard-working people who've way too many things going on while they're making plans for so many more things. Simply, they need to get more people to help them out. They face more improbably stupid things than i can imagine.
Cops. Need I say more? Expect to be randomly raided, busted or conned into a fine. Hey, they're just doing their job yeah.
And finally there's us.
Of all the billions of people, it is quite highly unlikely that the 6 people in this band met and decided to create an audio-visual experience. It might be considered quite stupid for us to give up the regular sing-a-song routine for our upcoming shows and move to completely improvised sets.
Obviously, we'd like to be jamming with other musicians and we might play a few of our songs, but the sets will be mostly improvised, on-the-spot jams.
Our recording plans are taking shape and we're proud to announce the track-list of our untitled debut album -
- Surya
- Boom Shankar(live)
- Chaos Theory
- Lucid Dreaming
- Sensory Overload
- Untitled track 01
Its all a cosmic conspiracy i tell you, but we're in it and are used to it if nothing. Times are changing, they will get better.
Thank you for flying with us.
Peace!
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