Yesterday was the tech setup rehearsal for our Memory performance. Some new developments have unfolded since my last blog, mainly that I am performing with Sony. I haven’t had a lot of time with this piece, so I’m a little worried. Sony and I had a couple of rehearsals and changed some things around. Even though we’re very lax about the whole thing, I’m still worried about butchering a piece when the composer is sitting at the piano. That could be extremely embarrassing. Now, we have Jee Yung dancing for the piece, so that will be very cool. She will start out in the blackbox with us and then move to an off screen camera in the lobby. That will act as sort of the memory of her from the blackbox. I’m excited for that, I just hope that Sony and I can get a little rehearsal time, or at least that I can get some time to warm up and mull over the piece pretty thoroughly. It’s a short piece and I would really like to do it from memory… how appropriate.
Yesterday, the somewhat empty black box theatre turned into a huge mess of computers, VDA’s monitors, cameras, wires, cables, tape, ladders, screens, projectors and what ever else we could put in there. It was pretty intense. We made a connection with both Colorado and Korea and it took us a while to work out the kinks. I think that we still have more to work out today. I’m going to have to sew the openings in the spandex screens closed. For most of the performance, I’ll be operating camera 3. I have no trouble with that at all.
I can tell that this is going to be a long one, thanks in part to setting the clocks ahead one hour, but mostly because of the fact that we will be there for at least 12 hours today. Well, maybe I’ll only be there for 11 hours, as I sit here and wait on a westbound train that has been delayed for the third time. Maybe our next project can be an ode to MTA, the bane of my existence. I could write a piece entitled My 4 Hour Commute.
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