Friday 30 September 2005

Damp windy weather has set in here, but the Lion CD is progressing apace: the vocal tracks are now mixed and sounding great.  I suspect that this will have a knock-on effect on the running order: once you can hear more closely how things will actually sound, the ideal sequence starts to change.

Today I have to do some long overdue practice for Sunday's concert, but first I'm going to catch up on at least a week's worth of email and bits and piece of company admin, some fixing, some availability to collate, and some fees to agree or haggle over. The Early Music Show seem to want to broadcast our programme from an acoustically dead basement radio studio, which isn't exactly the ideal sonic environment: so, will the useful time spent together in rehearsal for the show mitigate the depressing experience of sounding less than perfect on the radio for an hour? Hmm. Don't know really. Probably. But playing old instruments in a purposefully dead space does rather cancel out the point of playing them in the first place.

There was an overwhelmingly positive review of the Geminiani disc in the Herald on Saturday - not available online unless you want to pay though. You'll just have to take my word for it.

Damp windy weather has set in here, but the Lion CD is progressing apace: the vocal tracks are now mixed and sounding great.  I suspect that this will have a knock-on effect on the running order: once you can hear more closely how things will actually sound, the ideal sequence starts to change.

Today I have to do some long overdue practice for Sunday's concert, but first I'm going to catch up on at least a week's worth of email and bits and piece of company admin, some fixing, some availability to collate, and some fees to agree or haggle over. The Early Music Show seem to want to broadcast our programme from an acoustically dead basement radio studio, which isn't exactly the ideal sonic environment: so, will the useful time spent together in rehearsal for the show mitigate the depressing experience of sounding less than perfect on the radio for an hour? Hmm. Don't know really. Probably. But playing old instruments in a purposefully dead space does rather cancel out the point of playing them in the first place.

There was an overwhelmingly positive review of the Geminiani disc in the Herald on Saturday - not available online unless you want to pay though. You'll just have to take my word for it.