Hey, you're always asking me where I find stuff...
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Bumping into things
It's always a good idea in Hong Kong to go back to places after you havent been there for a while, because things can change quickly. Shops come and go, festivals are held, and you never know when the Urban Renewal Authority will decide to change a neighbourhood forever.
So it was nice to go to Cheung Chau with my parents on the weekend - we wandered around, got lost, ate some seafood and then bumped into a massive Cantonese Opera stage - a giant construction of bamboo, wood, and sheet metal, shoehorned into a basketball court for a season of performances. As it was during the day there was nothing happening so we could wander around it as we pleased looking at the way it had been put together and spotting interesting objects in the rubble of post-performance. Pretty good for a temporary structure eh?
So it was nice to go to Cheung Chau with my parents on the weekend - we wandered around, got lost, ate some seafood and then bumped into a massive Cantonese Opera stage - a giant construction of bamboo, wood, and sheet metal, shoehorned into a basketball court for a season of performances. As it was during the day there was nothing happening so we could wander around it as we pleased looking at the way it had been put together and spotting interesting objects in the rubble of post-performance. Pretty good for a temporary structure eh?
Labels: cheungchau, hongkong, music
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Time & Music
I remember a few weeks ago saying I would never write about work. And that's a good thing - but it's killing me in one way - because it seems like all we do now is work. Which means that all I really have to write about is work. And I promised I wouldn't do that. Hm.
I think I've been very lucky in a way - in the six or seven months I wasn't working in Hong Kong I managed to find some people to play music with and be in a band and write songs again. That six months was actually incredibly valuable in terms of the band's development, because it gave us time to come up with a significant amount of material. The number always changes every we time try to account for how many songs we have, but we have well over 20 original songs now. And quite a few of them are *cough* pretty good. Well, at least, they're fun for us to play.
So now it's like we have this catalogue of material to fall back on that we can repurpose for whatever kind of gig we've got coming up. Repertoire - that's the word I'm looking for.
Repertoire - I remember it from when I was playing a viola in a string quartet - we could go for hours because we had an extensive repertoire. And the 1st Violinist was working hard to expand his orchestral repertoire so he could get a spot in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (he did). And there used to be touring theatre companies that had a repertoire of shows so they could turn up at a country town and do a season of tragedies and comedies.
Well, if you want to get an idea of what our repertoire will be like on Saturday night you could investigate these guys.
tags: hongkong | music
I think I've been very lucky in a way - in the six or seven months I wasn't working in Hong Kong I managed to find some people to play music with and be in a band and write songs again. That six months was actually incredibly valuable in terms of the band's development, because it gave us time to come up with a significant amount of material. The number always changes every we time try to account for how many songs we have, but we have well over 20 original songs now. And quite a few of them are *cough* pretty good. Well, at least, they're fun for us to play.
So now it's like we have this catalogue of material to fall back on that we can repurpose for whatever kind of gig we've got coming up. Repertoire - that's the word I'm looking for.
Repertoire - I remember it from when I was playing a viola in a string quartet - we could go for hours because we had an extensive repertoire. And the 1st Violinist was working hard to expand his orchestral repertoire so he could get a spot in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (he did). And there used to be touring theatre companies that had a repertoire of shows so they could turn up at a country town and do a season of tragedies and comedies.
Well, if you want to get an idea of what our repertoire will be like on Saturday night you could investigate these guys.
tags: hongkong | music
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