A slow day yesterday. I spent the morning setting up the piano and two synths to run through the set-list for our Knutsford performance. At the moment we have 29 songs/poems, which is a lot, probably too many. I will need MP3 recordings for some and needed to design a few new instruments. Deb assumed that we would be using the projector, which I hadn't considered. This would mean making 29 videos, or at least some. The problem with the projector is that technologies like this introduce more risk. I can control it with a remote control but everything needs to be carefully set up. If I press the wrong button accidentally, the whole thing can be ruined. It's impossible in the middle or a show to cancel or try to reset things. The people who design projectors seem to put no thought into how the projector might be used. The playing order of a list of videos, for example, isn't down to filename or date or any file attibute, it defaults to the read order from the USB stick, the order the files were copied over! Rather than wait, films will jump to the next one automatically, so the idea of making a short looping film, or one that will simply end and stop is out of the question.
In the afternoon I started to sketch out Moon Over Shakespeare but it was slow going. On we push!
