Circle January 06, 2008

Location: Art Loft, Boston
Attendees: Alex, Chris, David, Martin & Victor

We began the circle around 7:30 with a sound check of the new mixing board and DI. The sound was noticeably cleaner than the old system. We ran through the repertoire for the
upcoming performance on March 16th (Not necessarily in this order):
Askesis
Third Relation
Lifelight
Asturias
Calliope
Flying Home
EoTN
Growing Circle
We too a break and Victor added a sub-woofer to the system which rounded out the bottom end nicely. Victor read a Bennett passage on the Sevenfold Work.
We ran the above pieces again and also Larks Thraak. There was discussion as to which pieces David will play on due to his schedule. Dev is currently not going to be able to play the gig. Victor said we need to bring happiness to our playing on Third Relation . He said this was active engagement without egoism so as to not speed up the piece or conversely passively engagement that slows it down. Victor commented the middle section of Third was not smooth in terms of the melodies for the leads and there was a delay in playing the D that starts (Dm7?) at the beginning of the last descending line in the middle section . The second time we ran Lifelight, we ran multiple sections multiple times. The 2nd A section was decided to be two measures with the bass and mids, and two with the mids ending on the and of four. Victor encouraged Chris to learn IBE. We finished around 10 as Alex had an early day on Monday.