so i did a show last week w/ ready fire aim... it was very intense and we seemed to entertain the crowd very well... we use a lot of electronic devices that take both patience and faith to keep fully operational - between guitar effects cutting out, the computer malfunctions and drum triggers that are intense and necessary to maintain our cutting edge sound, it keeps our hands full.
since the loss of a keyboard player it has been my job to offer the 'weird noise' element to the band live which leaves me mostly on my knees twiddling with knobs to make the perfect concoction... last weeks show was very intense for this reason.
so the show starts, i've got phasers and flangers and vibrato effects going on with no actual note... just this hum building into an intense shriek of noise and almost abrasive sounds that leads up to the burst that starts the first song of the set, 'wannabe your' - and this, is what leads me to my point of a rather short blog entry.
as the sounds spin around, dizzying at times, sage plays this simple line that sets the tone for what is to come on a violin. usually we hope this takes about a minute and a half or two minutes, but we had the electronics malfunction so it took about 5 minutes instead. the suspense was maginficent! there was nothing really happening, just swells of noise perplexing an intrigued audience. at long last, it all came together... an explosion of tone and sound that would frighten most... and at last, we had our release.
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