Score and practice info

Attention Players!

PowerPoint score updates are available. Contact Karlin for your copy if you haven't already received it by email. There are 2 versions: 1.3MB silent version or a 5MB version with rehearsal audio.

If you want a CD with other rehearsal audio tracks, like the low F and low D we'll be playing the riff over, let me know that too.

Your mission over the next weeks is to find the strongest and clearest sounds on your instrument and get enough control over them that they come out when you want them to. Convincing tone and clear rhythm are more important than 'right' harmonies. Play your best sounds over the low notes on the practice track or PowerPoint and choose those that fit best to your ear. During the riff, especially, please try to use notes you think fit well over the bass during the long notes and for the last note. The bass notes will be either the F or D we practiced with.

Your section will have at least 2 rehearsals, I hope, before the 22nd. The more comfortable you are as a section, the more convincing you'll sound. And if you make up some other good tunes, we can use them in the lunchtime concerts or the first half of the big Friday night concert. Section leaders will be appointed to organise rehearsals (if they haven't already).

Thank you so much for being part of this. It is such a remarkable project: bringing out the voices of these beautiful sculptural instruments and joining them together in a powerful collaborative creation.

The score with audio! July 26

Hmmm.... Can't find it again. Will keep trying.

String practice Saturday July 24

We have access to the Mountain Harps and Tromba Marina this Saturday, July 24 for a practice session at the Museum. I'd like to make sure people get some free time to explore and experiment, so I was thinking we might aim to have all of you together in the middle of the day, say 12:30. You can come before or after to play without the crowd. I'm able to be there anytime between 10 and 3.

Let me know what will work best for you, and I'll organise it.

The recordings from last Saturday reveal some fantastic work - copies are available on CD if you request it and send me your snail mail address. I'll get some things uploaded somewhere on the web, too.

Thanks for being involved!

Karlin

Great rehearsal last Saturday!

Thanks to everyone who made it to Saturday's rehearsal. I've been editing recordings and there are great ideas, good blends and even some effective transitions! We still have lots to do to make this really work but we're well on the way.

I've added sounds from the last 2 rehearsals to the powerpoint score and will be glad to send that to you as well as the rest of the recordings. Just let me know.(Karlin)

We'll be putting refinements to the score up here as they develop.
I'm hoping to be able to store the ever-evolving powerpoint on the web somewhere.

IMPORTANT!!!!
When your section rehearses, can you make sure we get recordings of your best bits and we'll include them in the latest versions so the others can work with them too.

Stay tuned and keep the music flowing.

Rehearsal and performance dates

Tasmanian Leather Orchestra and Random Acts of Music


July 17 10-2 Rehearsal for everyone. Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery

July 18-Aug 21 Rehearsals in your sections or small groups – organise enough of them so you’re ready for:

August 22 2:30-5 Holy Trinity Church 34 Cameron St. Dress warmly.

August 26-28 9-5 Exhibition of instruments in Holy Trinity.
Volunteers needed to supervise, demonstrate and explain.

August 26 1-2: Stringed instruments in Holy Trinity: Lunchtime concert

August 27 1-2: Random Acts groups in CBD and on Tiger buses
Stringed instruments in Holy Trinity: Lunchtime concert

3-5 Rehearsal for everyone. Holy Trinity
6-7 Concert
7-8 Party

August 28 1-2: Random Acts groups in CBD and on Tiger buses
Stringed instruments in Holy Trinity: Lunchtime concert
5-7 Take down exhibition

Lunchtime concerts are free.
Friday evening (Aug 27) Leather Orchestra concert: $15/$10 concession. Tickets available through Theatre North. We already have about ¼ booked. It might sell out, so don’t count on tickets being available at the door.

We also plan to record the small groups during the two weeks before the concert.