Out of order events of last few weeks

Went to a protest.

Pope Marc delivering a beatitude. 

So first up we had a reading for Richard Byrne's Beauty Doesn't Reach Me. Yeah, some real long-hair stuff about Ernst Toller. That was two weeks ago on the Lower East Side.

Richard Byrne layin' out the good word.

It was good and educational. Buy the book! And check out this podcast that Richard is on. 

Then we had a screening of The Red Flag of the Future at the 14th Street Y.

The house at the 14th Street Y. Small number of seats but huge ceiling and enormous tech row at top.

We want to do another slightly different mix and a couple very minor tweaks to picture on the opera. 

Clear signage.

I was amused by this subway sign.

Realizations, decisions, and actions.

Saw the Yale Symphony. They have two orchestras at Yale, the Symphony and the Philharmonic. The symphony, although it is the "lower" orchestra, is really quite good. The wind section really played like a section. That's not what you get for most student orchestras. I was impressed.

The hall the Yale Symphony plays in is very reverberant and live. I like it. 

Then I saw a rehearsal of the Berkshire Symphony. They're basically the Williams College orchestra.

Berkshire Symphony.

Then it was time for some rock and roll. I mixed The Beaks as they were doing an all-day 100-song marathon of The Beatles. I'm using Multiplay to do playback of sound cues. The program is basically a Q-lab but for PC and it's free. So far it works extraordinarily well. Does it do everything Q-Lab can? No. But for most shows it's more than perfect.

I need more computers. That's Marc Schmied on the Hofner bass. 

I had a router so my iPad could talk to the mixer. The leftmost computer is running Reaper just so I can experiment with playback. 

My very hostile Allen&Heath SQ5 amuses me immensely. 

Now we're going to DC to record the actors for the Congressman Davy podcast. 

Top down, U47 clones and power supplies.

So I'm trying to figure out how we're recording.

There's a bunch of large-diaphragm mics. Actually the middle one is a Blue ribbon microphone.

At first I thought we'd do LDC's. But four outboard power supplies? Also, I don't really know it'll sound like dialog on a stage. We're going for a theater-like sound. So small-diaphragm is the way we're going. 

Instead of large-diaphragm mics, a bunch of small-diaphragm mics.

Anyway, that's what's going on.

Unload of images

 

Just pictures of mixers

A mix for fix.

Some big dum-dum (me) decided to remix the Red Flag of the Future opera before our big screening at the 14th Street Y this coming Tuesday. 

Closeup of the screen of my SQ5.

Input strip which is fairly standard in the project. These are the instrument channels.

One of these pictures is me

 

Chat CPT Opera.

I asked Chat GPT to write a comic opera about robots--"write a comic opera about 12 angry robots passing judgement on all of humanity. At the end they find humanity guilty and subject to immediate elimination."

Chat GPT doesn't really know how jokes work. But when deliberately dadaist, it can be funny. This amused me.

Red Flag Screening in our nation's capital

 

Andrew Bellware, Laura Schlachtmeyer, and Gaylia Wagner in front of the marquee of the Miracle Theater in Washington DC.

We had a screening of Red Flag of the Future in DC. The screen and sound there is quite good. I want to re-mix the entire movie now, of course. 

The inside of the Miracle Theater.

Gaylia adjusts her puppet display in the lobby.

Next up: a pair of screenings in New York City. 

Such which

Watchout is theater show management software. 

I'm working on my Dante certifications. At present am getting brain around subnets. The first and last addresses of the subnets are in use and cannot be used by devices on the subnet. I think that means there are 254 possible devices on a subnet if only the last octet is "0". Think.

Angine de poitrine is a very crazy French-Canadian microtonal math-rock band that is amazing.

Lawo is a (German?) console manufacturer who makes big broadcast consoles. 

The Warm Grey of the Quickening Sky

Josh James wrote about Lou Carbonneau , who passed away last week. I knew him from the Christmas play Josh mentions in his article and I have fond memories of Lou even though I haven't seen him in more than two decades. It's sad too that the crash killed a girl and severely injured someone else. 

Robot Christmas

This is your annual reminder of Robot Christmas by what I call Tyrannosaurus Mouse, which in this case is just me. 

Full Artificial Intelligence (Supervised)

 The audio producer's guide to loudness.

I'm experimenting with Wordpress using this site. I dunno. Maybe?