Recording Project, Fit the Sixth
May. 14th, 2006 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sen_no_ongaku(Fits the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth.)
After over a year and a half since those initial sessions at Q Division, I've finally spliced together tracks for Arrhythmia, Duo, and Kae, with Colin's expertise yesterday. We still need to fine-tune EQ and reverb, but things are much closer to done.
It's really nice to have heard Duo for the first time. The cellists at K&U's wedding did an execrable job, and I didn't have much of an idea of what it sounded like until the Q Sessions -- during which I was spending more energy on correcting and adjusting than listening and enjoying. I am pleased; the first movement is lovely and elegant, the second bouncy, angular, and, I hope, fun. It occurs to me now -- I don't remember if this was intentional -- that in the first movement, one cello seems male, the other female. Hm.
Kae many of you heard at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cybersattva and lauramd's wedding. Only well after the fact do I realize it owes a lot to Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time; or if I had that piece in mind, I'd since forgotten. It's really pretty.
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We've decided to try to get a new batch of recordings for Three Sketches (for trumpet and piano), so we have more control over the sound; while the performance I have of it is excellent, the recording is lacking in some respects, and the piece has enough unusual aural effects that a more tailored miking profile would greatly help.wavyarms's father has agreed to play the trumpet part, so we just need to find a time and a big, wet space. If the church in which thomascantor premiered Transmigration works acoustically (and the piano is acceptable), I'm going to try to grab both pieces in one session, hopefully by mid-June.
Once the tracks are set and finalized, we need to contact the musicans again and get in writing that they're cool with our plans for this CD. I hope that will be nothing but boring.
So it looks like having a Master by March was...optimistic. But progress continues to be made.
After over a year and a half since those initial sessions at Q Division, I've finally spliced together tracks for Arrhythmia, Duo, and Kae, with Colin's expertise yesterday. We still need to fine-tune EQ and reverb, but things are much closer to done.
It's really nice to have heard Duo for the first time. The cellists at K&U's wedding did an execrable job, and I didn't have much of an idea of what it sounded like until the Q Sessions -- during which I was spending more energy on correcting and adjusting than listening and enjoying. I am pleased; the first movement is lovely and elegant, the second bouncy, angular, and, I hope, fun. It occurs to me now -- I don't remember if this was intentional -- that in the first movement, one cello seems male, the other female. Hm.
Kae many of you heard at
cybersattva and lauramd's wedding. Only well after the fact do I realize it owes a lot to Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time; or if I had that piece in mind, I'd since forgotten. It's really pretty.___
We've decided to try to get a new batch of recordings for Three Sketches (for trumpet and piano), so we have more control over the sound; while the performance I have of it is excellent, the recording is lacking in some respects, and the piece has enough unusual aural effects that a more tailored miking profile would greatly help.
wavyarms's father has agreed to play the trumpet part, so we just need to find a time and a big, wet space. If the church in which thomascantor premiered Transmigration works acoustically (and the piano is acceptable), I'm going to try to grab both pieces in one session, hopefully by mid-June.Once the tracks are set and finalized, we need to contact the musicans again and get in writing that they're cool with our plans for this CD. I hope that will be nothing but boring.
So it looks like having a Master by March was...optimistic. But progress continues to be made.
