In Context
Aug. 30th, 2009 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judifilksignContext was nice. The hotel is a sprawling one, with lots of marble and waterfalls. I'm told that next year's OVFF will be there, which will be odd for me. Consuite was gone and well away down the hall to the middle of nowhere, though I had plenty of wonderful conversations and interactions there.
There was a most excellent panel about whips, run by a stuntman/movie consultant that was most kewl. As one of the volunteers, I got to have a whip cracked about my waist, and neck, which done by the expert, did not hurt. He showed how lots of films that do floggings with whips put the scars all wrong by demonstration, which was unnerving, but interesting. He was accurate enough to put out a row of lit candles by cracking his whip at them. he explained the physics of whips, and covered how to tell when movie whip effects were faked.
I ate dinner withrms_butterfly , ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pondside , and fuzzyvanman before Michael Longcor's concert. (And a shout out of "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" to Pondside, 'cause it's her birthday today, and she deserves to be happy!)
Moonwulf's concert was full of literary songs, appropriate to the theme of Context. It was a really nice concert to do, with a couple of new songs I hadn't heard yet that were very satisfying to sign. I like the "Sailing After Blackbeard" one a lot - very rousing, and made me want to growl "RRRRR" afterwards, despite the fact it's a song about *chasing* pirates, not being one!
Following the concert was open filk, and I stayed until after midnight. There weren't a lot of singers: me, Pondside, Moonwulf, Tom Smith, and Juanita, and two people who sang one song each from the back of the room and disappeared pretty quickly. There were a number of people hanging out with us and enjoying the music, so it was pretty neat. I ended up singing a LOT more than I usually do. My practice has paid off; I sounded better than I usually do, too.
One thing of which I am proud was that when I started to mess up on the guitar, I kept the vocal line steady, dropped the guitar, and picked it up again a half line or so, playing more simply. Can I tell you how incredibly sweet it was of both Moonwulf and Tom to pick up backup guitar parts to strengthen my performance on a couple of songs? Thank you guys!
There was a most excellent panel about whips, run by a stuntman/movie consultant that was most kewl. As one of the volunteers, I got to have a whip cracked about my waist, and neck, which done by the expert, did not hurt. He showed how lots of films that do floggings with whips put the scars all wrong by demonstration, which was unnerving, but interesting. He was accurate enough to put out a row of lit candles by cracking his whip at them. he explained the physics of whips, and covered how to tell when movie whip effects were faked.
I ate dinner with
rms_butterfly , pondside , and fuzzyvanman before Michael Longcor's concert. (And a shout out of "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" to Pondside, 'cause it's her birthday today, and she deserves to be happy!)Moonwulf's concert was full of literary songs, appropriate to the theme of Context. It was a really nice concert to do, with a couple of new songs I hadn't heard yet that were very satisfying to sign. I like the "Sailing After Blackbeard" one a lot - very rousing, and made me want to growl "RRRRR" afterwards, despite the fact it's a song about *chasing* pirates, not being one!
Following the concert was open filk, and I stayed until after midnight. There weren't a lot of singers: me, Pondside, Moonwulf, Tom Smith, and Juanita, and two people who sang one song each from the back of the room and disappeared pretty quickly. There were a number of people hanging out with us and enjoying the music, so it was pretty neat. I ended up singing a LOT more than I usually do. My practice has paid off; I sounded better than I usually do, too.
One thing of which I am proud was that when I started to mess up on the guitar, I kept the vocal line steady, dropped the guitar, and picked it up again a half line or so, playing more simply. Can I tell you how incredibly sweet it was of both Moonwulf and Tom to pick up backup guitar parts to strengthen my performance on a couple of songs? Thank you guys!
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Date: 2009-08-30 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-30 11:35 pm (UTC)I've been playing tunes on the guitar more than chording recently. I was *almost* able to perform a song in which the guitar had counterpoint to the sung melody. Since I didn't have it cold, I didn't even try it.
In practise, I can play the music as I sing the song, but I can't look at the additional verses printed after the music and continue for the whole song. (I sometimes wish more sheet music was written like choir music, with all of the verses printed under the notation.) I'm hoping that by OVFF, I'll have more that I can do.
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Date: 2009-08-31 06:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-01 09:01 pm (UTC)It seemed odd not to be there this year, after so many years' reunions at the ferret show.
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