Stockhausen

Man, I wish I had more time to keep this up to date. Feels like it's been non-stop work on this, between all of the sound design (over 120 cues over two discs for each show), rehearsals, etc. Very little time to be a tourist in Toronto I'm sorry to say. I've barely had time to eat, although Dan has managed to squeeze in about 6 meals a day somehow.

Last night was the first night we didn't rehearse, so I went to one of the official Deep Wireless events, a "performance" of "Kontakte," an electronic music piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen -- I put performance in quotes because it was just a listening experience, but on Darren's amazing 8-channel surround system. There were three other radio art pieces as well, all similarly abstract but pretty mind-blowing in Octophonic Sound. We actually have a piece in one of the shows called Octophonic Sound, we didn't realize that Darren was really using it! And it will be used for our shows as well, he's got a hand-held controller that he moves around in space to direct the 8 channels and "spatialize" the sound. How far out is that?

Dan had to stay back in the room and do some major surgery on the script since it was running about 25% over time. He was pretty bummed about that, but as he always says to me, you've just got to roll with it baby!

There are many more things to tell you, but we're leaving in 10 minutes, tech rehearsal. I'll fill in the rest tonight. Don't forget, the shows are streaming live tonight and tomorrow night at http://free103point9.org/.