Sunday May 28th Meeting

House of Victor Jane and Bridge: I arrived at about 8:05. Victor and I sat outside and dusk fell. He played a good chunk of Moto Perpetuo for me. We played through Chrysanthemum a couple of times. I suggested Victor write a second part to a piece of mine entitled Loadstone. We worked on that for some time. In trying to reactivate the motion-sensing light I almost hit Victor with a stick. We moved back inside and continued working. Eventually we recorded our efforts using DP and the built-in mic on Victor's laptop.

Sunday May 14th Meeting

Mary Beth and Glenn's house: Victor arrived just after 8. We worked on Chrysanthemum. MB showed up a bit later. Mostly talk about "Tuning the Air" and where the circle is going, or might go. Third Relation. Askesis. And, another run through Chrysanthemum. Victor talked a little about a Nova special involving tracing the wanderings of early humans via the genetic record.

April 30th meeting

Attendees: Victor, MB, Glenn, David, Dev, Martin
After a brief quiet, Victor had us take off our guitars for some body beat work. This involved double-time hits on the torso to the right-left foot work and then doing a drum line with bops. During the fourth measure, we were "tacit" until the last beat when we all said "bop." Pairs of us did drum solos during the fourth measure. For the next round of this, we began on the and of 1. This was hard and I didn't get it that I was aware of. If I did it was an accident.
After this, we did a pretty good embroidery and circulation. Then, there was work on Growing Circle. The important outcome of this work (a note for the OCBC performance) is for the baseline to retard the last three notes. Then, we worked on 3rd Relation. We repeatedly played the melody lines while marching around the room.
Victor then talked to us about performing with the take home message being to talk to him personally about our thoughts on our own directions and how that matches with what we would like the group to do. Our group ailment seems to be finding time to practice enough so that we are consistent when we play. Right now, we are inconsistent more often than not. This isn't to say we shouldn't make mistakes, but that it would be nice if mistakes only occurred due to unforeseen circumstances rather than unforced errors.
After the talk, things brightened when we realized that a small subset of the group could play Calliope (a quartet). Bach #1 was tabled. Glenn and Victor decided to work on Glenn's composition Crysanthemum for the OCBC gig. We will also do EotN. The set list will include: Third Relation, EotN, a circulation, Calliope, Crysanthemum, Growing Circle, Moving Force (and maybe Bach #1).
For the week: Victor and Glenn will meet to work on Crysanthemum, Victor would like us to talk to him personally about where we are at with practice, performing, and the circle, we are performing on Sunday at OCBC and need to plan our weeks accordingly to play well. Sleep the night before the performance is a good idea to store our preparation work. It isn't a good idea to cram the morning before the performance.