You Played What? Where?
You: So, how was the Library gig?
Me: It was a library and we tried to play music, how do you think it went!?!
Actually, it went better than I thought. I had no idea of what it was supposed to be like, but here it goes…
We arrived at the Portage District Library for a war-themed artistic exhibition, set up everything (near the music section), started to check stuff out sound-wise and quickly realized that we were greatly over playing the room. Of course at a library coughing could be considered over playing.
The group did well adjusting to the quiet room. I used multi-rods instead of sticks to quiet things down a bit. The other guys did what they could (turn stuff down) including Adam giving a more subdued vocal performance.
Again, some of the highlights for me were the old stuff that was already soft like All My Dreams. The group really seemed to gel together and form a unit to produce a smooth sound. On the more outspoken Big Mouth (no pun intended), it was fun to make different musical decisions than we might have if we were playing at full force. It was defiantly a learning experience and an enjoyable afternoon.
Come see us soon, check out:
http://www.sojournband.com/concerts.htm
John
Me: It was a library and we tried to play music, how do you think it went!?!
Actually, it went better than I thought. I had no idea of what it was supposed to be like, but here it goes…
We arrived at the Portage District Library for a war-themed artistic exhibition, set up everything (near the music section), started to check stuff out sound-wise and quickly realized that we were greatly over playing the room. Of course at a library coughing could be considered over playing.
The group did well adjusting to the quiet room. I used multi-rods instead of sticks to quiet things down a bit. The other guys did what they could (turn stuff down) including Adam giving a more subdued vocal performance.
Again, some of the highlights for me were the old stuff that was already soft like All My Dreams. The group really seemed to gel together and form a unit to produce a smooth sound. On the more outspoken Big Mouth (no pun intended), it was fun to make different musical decisions than we might have if we were playing at full force. It was defiantly a learning experience and an enjoyable afternoon.
Come see us soon, check out:
http://www.sojournband.com/concerts.htm
John
posted by Sojourn @ 9:56 AM
2 Comments:
At 3/13/2006 10:30 AM,
Unknown said…
With Sojourn, we certainly haven't been afraid of the "new opportunity". I was kind of hoping the library would have put us in a separate "room", as I do think the volume issue affected our performance a bit. It was a unique performance, and I'm hoping it may lead to some new opportunities in the Portage area. I'm not sure I'd want to do the library thing regularly, but it's something I'd do again.
At 3/13/2006 7:06 PM,
Adam Parmenter said…
In a small sense it was nice not to have to struggle with the balance between the monitors and the frontals. Everything was so quiet that the challenge was not singing too loud.
It made some sections easier and others nearly impossible. Like John was saying I had to rethink how to execute my vocals on some songs that are quite easy. In a way it took more energy and effort to get the same notes and intensity at such a low volume.
Some of our regular listeners said it sounded fabulous. Although right at the beginning during the sound check, a library patron who I had spoken with earlier walked past and gave me an angry thumbs down.
I truely was a learning experience, and I'm going to continue to explore the benefits of singing at a lower volume in order to get certain performance elements that I can't at higher volumes.
Do it again? If the library contacted us and said that people can't wait for us to come back . . . hmmmm. It's just really weird to play in a library.
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