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At 2:27 PM -0800 2/6/05, William Walker wrote: >at a few points in the show the rain pouring on the roof created an >amazing ambience. One point in particular when Michael Manring was >playing a beautiful long toned textural piece, it was if the >environmental sounds were being cued from the mixing board. I had a similar experience a while back in Rome. The venue was a circus-style tent called Spaziozero, and the occasion was a festival of contemporary voice (I was there with Diamanda Galas). Pauline Oliveros was also on the festival, and she asked me to mix for her, in quad. It had been unseasonably cold during the preceding few weeks. Rome was covered in ice and as you can imagine the tent was horribly cold. Fortunately a day or so before Pauline's gig there was a thaw, then continuous rain. As PO described it, the sound of the rain was like "a thousand spirit drummers" and she went with it. Whenever the a gust of wind would sweep the raindrops across the tent, she would make a phrase on her accordion and I would pan her sound across the quad system. A less propitious windy performance happened in Santa Cruz during one of the "years of the tent" when the Cabrillo Music Festival was held on the UCSC campus. The typical weather pattern was for the wind to come up off Monterey Bay in the late afternoon but to died down befor the evening concert, but one particular night it was delayed by about an hour. During the first part of the concert the tent flapped mightily against the wooden uprights around the periphery. I did my best to ride the sound system gain so the rear of the audience could hear the music (though this made me unpopular with the front rows) and the ushers positioned themselves between the wooden uprights and the canvas tent walls, trying vainly to keep the two apart. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://salamandersongs.com http://ill-wind.com