Playlist

Recorded

10/23/2010
The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

10/24/2010
Murmur - REM
We Are The World - USA for Africa

10/26/2010
Banned Rehearsal 203 - Banned Rehearsal
Ode Tounami - Joshua Kohl - Michael Nicolella
String Quartet - Benjamin Boretz - Dafo Quartet

A difficult path through a strange land.
Attempts are made to familiarize it - we to it.
Far further along we are no more familiar - we to it - less so in fact - far less so - just further - far further along.

Live

10/25/2010
Banned Rehearsal 781 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Meyer

10/28/2010
Hamlet - Shakespeare - Seattle Shakespeare Company

One effective sound-design element stood out in this fine production. The uncle King bursts onto stage in the second scene in a blaze of light and wedding whites to take a microphone at the center. As he speaks his  voice is echoed lightly through the sound-system. It is as though one were hearing his voice amplified into a large room, complete with echoes off the walls. But what stands in the place of the main, amplified signal is just the un-amplified voice, and what stands in the place of the un-amplified echo is the actual amplified sound-system. This may be an effect common in stage-craft, but it worked brilliantly here to turn the character's pretense inside-out. We could hear, in intimate detail, an image of the insecurity at the heart of his pomp.