Monday, February 1, 2016

The Five-Laser Pak is Ready for Burning Souls Tonight

The best reason not to do this is it looks tiny bit like it's trying to imitate a Star Wars light saber.  The resemblance is small but the Star Wars ennui is large.  The Five-Laser Pak and with the battery were attached to the head of the Galaxy Guitar as planned and that was tried, without recording, last night.

The laser session brought it up to five guitar sessions for the day and Cadillac Man remarked it seems things go better.  That's true and who knows what brings the burst of energy but I'm going with it and will push it as far as I can.


The objective was to shoot a video last night but Cadillac Man and I blew smoke at each other for a few hours so blowing more in the Rockhouse with the fog machine seemed it would be overkill.  After that was when the fifth session happened but that was enough for the day.  That's good because it was weighing heavily about making too much noise and that's no good for recording.


Something which came as a surprise yesterday was discovering the "Symphony for Cat" isn't what I thought it was.  My thinking was I used the same chords for "The End of the World in Fort Worth" as I had used for that one but it's not true.  That song has some interesting changes but it doesn't have lyrics so it may make a reappearance.  Songs without lyrics aren't so interesting to me anymore because they just mean video in which we watch some scroungy-looking mutt playing a guitar.  Dunno 'bout you but I've seen that before.

Everything is toward dynamics.  For some of you it's HDR as in extending the range of photography and/or it's dynamic range in audio insofar as what extremes of audio can be reached and how flat is the response within that range.  That can get all uber-tech if you like but there's not much gained from the analysis.

(Ed:  shut up and play?)

Right you are, matey, mate.


Here at the Rockhouse, the dynamics are when we bring it up and we bring it down.  Maybe you know "I Dreamed a Dream" in "Les Miserables" which is solo, tragic, and hopeless.  The dynamic in it is the same production will give you "One Day More" with the entire cast blowing the song right out of the roof.

Note:  "Les Miserables" is a favorite study in music because of the delicious way in much recurring musical themes are rewoven back through the fabric of the story.  Here at the Rockhouse, we regard it as a masterpiece fully worthy of standing beside operatic productions of the classical era.  (YouTube: "Les Miserables - 10th Anniversary Concert")


(Ed:  dynamics include lasers?)

Well, if'n I can find them.  Tonight there will be five of them.

(Ed:  Darth Silas!)

Bite me.

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