Best production note I've seen all year

[jruberto]

For an upcoming orchestra + choir gig..... from the music director:

"I would prefer not to mic the Tuba this year. It is _____, who is blind, and he's just making up a part."

ohhhhhhkayyyy then, we won't mic the tuba.:-)

[matt thomas]

Originally Posted by jruberto

For an upcoming orchestra + choir gig..... from the music director:

ohhhhhhkayyyy then, we won't mic the tuba.:-)

ha, thats great

Matt

[joelpatterson]

I just got an inquiry-- someone wants to know if it's okay to submit a piano piece I recorded for her at a recital for a compilation that's going to be put together by the Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss.

I told her & .

[My Tiny Circus]

True story - I played a gig at a school for the deaf once. We had an enthusiastic and appreciative audience and it went very well.

Originally Posted by joelpatterson

I just got an inquiry-- someone wants to know if it's okay to submit a piano piece I recorded for her at a recital for a compilation that's going to be put together by the Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss.

I told her & .

[amfortas2006]

the sound doesnt only sound, it emissions energy, or some kind of vibrations wich we can feel even if not hearing?

[boojum]

Originally Posted by amfortas2006

the sound doesnt only sound, it emissions energy, or some kind of vibrations wich we can feel even if not hearing?

This is sort of off topic, but at Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf, they have lots of dances. True, the sound level would deafen those not already deaf, and the bass line is HUGE, but those folks are out there shaking their bootie, bigtime. We all love music regardless how or at what level we perceive it. Rock on!

[piotr]

Evelyn Glennie is a fantastic musician!
And at the same time a deaf person.



Here is the original TED page.

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[jruberto]

Just a followup -- love seeing the positive commentary on music being accessible to disabled folks as consumers and performers. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't create or experience music in some way on a regular basis. (actually i do know, and it ain't pretty)

I think it's pretty great that this group i'm recording (and this is a pretty huge production, a 50+ person choir plus a children's choir, the orchestra is ~20 pieces, they brought us in to do a 24 track recording of it) is willing to include someone who can't see well enough to read music & let him just make up his part.

[SixAndChange]

Originally Posted by jruberto

Just a followup -- love seeing the positive commentary on music being accessible to disabled folks as consumers and performers. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't create or experience music in some way on a regular basis. (actually i do know, and it ain't pretty)

I think it's pretty great that this group i'm recording (and this is a pretty huge production, a 50+ person choir plus a children's choir, the orchestra is ~20 pieces, they brought us in to do a 24 track recording of it) is willing to include someone who can't see well enough to read music & let him just make up his part.

I'll play for ears, eyes imagination, or otherwise!

[Howie J]

Originally Posted by jruberto

Just a followup -- love seeing the positive commentary on music being accessible to disabled folks as consumers and performers. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't create or experience music in some way on a regular basis. (actually i do know, and it ain't pretty)

I think it's pretty great that this group i'm recording (and this is a pretty huge production, a 50+ person choir plus a children's choir, the orchestra is ~20 pieces, they brought us in to do a 24 track recording of it) is willing to include someone who can't see well enough to read music & let him just make up his part.

When I was in college for my Bachelor's, we had a blind flute player in our wind ensemble the last year I was there. When we would get new music, the section leader would come into the studio and we would record all her parts and instructions. Tracks would go something like this:

"This piece starts in 3/4, key of Eb. Opening line starts on the 3rd beat, (played the line), then there are 16 bars of rest, and come in on beat two (play the line) etc. etc.

The gal would then just learn the structure and all the music.

Howie J

[Gutbucket]

Thanks for posting the think to that Evelyn Glennie video, piotr! Excellent.

[piotr]

Originally Posted by Gutbucket

Thanks for posting the think to that Evelyn Glennie video, piotr! Excellent.

Yes, I was floored when I saw it first time!
p.

[WVUtubadude]

Years ago (so long that only the staff and a 28th year vet know about it), there was a blind instrumentalist in The Pride of West Virginia, WVU's marching band. She did march, and she marched very well. One of the director's favorite stories is how she went in the wrong direction during a show. The band was off doing it's thing, and there she was. She figured out where she was on the field and went to where the next picture was. The band came back, swallowed her up, and the show went right on.

[Boschen]

Originally Posted by jruberto

Just a followup -- love seeing the positive commentary on music being accessible to disabled folks as consumers and performers. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't create or experience music in some way on a regular basis. (actually i do know, and it ain't pretty)

I think it's pretty great that this group i'm recording (and this is a pretty huge production, a 50+ person choir plus a children's choir, the orchestra is ~20 pieces, they brought us in to do a 24 track recording of it) is willing to include someone who can't see well enough to read music & let him just make up his part.

+100
Music is a shared experience. If there's no sharing, and no audience, there's no experience.

I have a friend who is a talented bass player; he's also almost completely deaf.

[jruberto]

another followup -- did the gig this weekend (whirlwind -- Sat AM tech rehearse, Sun AM gig, Sun afternoon mix & master, Mon AM upload audio to manufacturer) & i gotta tell ya, i wish some of the other brass players had their parts as dialed in as the blind dude did..... should have had mic on him.