Manically busy day today, have made 14 new videos to accompany each of our pieces for the Saturday event, including videos for my Marius Fate songs. Some of these have backing music or sound effects built. Many are relatively simple loops or film clips, the only thing I have time for, not much time for special effects or artistic editing or synchronisation; but they will certainly add to the show. I really need to make some sort of projector viewing platform that I can attach to my camera tripod, but I won't have time until after the performance.
Managed a 45 minute break to gulp down some food before continuing and then a full technical rehearsal at 3pm. All seems to work but the USB still did a few unexpected things; the order of the files was not as expected (the order was but the first one in the list was no the first). I'm also getting some hum from the projector audio cable (definitely not the projector's fault, it hums even when not connected). The cable is too thin, too unshielded. 1/4 inch jack cables seem better and more solid, but spindly 3.5mm cables are a bit rubbish, yet so many devices now use the tiny connection. I might find an adaptor to use with the thicker cables.
Awake a lot of the night with panicky nightmares. I became acutely aware that we are part of a network of humans, a network of friends, to make a nation, a network of countries, a network of planets, stars, galaxies; but also that we are composite beings, made from cells that form a network of tiny animals that make us, that cells are composites of organelles, and they are made from molecules, made from atoms, and subatomic particles. We appear to be individuals but are merely part of this train of information storage and organisation, from tiny to massive, a sort of quantised existence of a broad flow, the ocean of existence. Our cells could be seen as quantised particles, and we could, as particles adrift in society, phasing in and out of existence relative to social contact.
