MuseCon, GenCon

[filkertom]

This weekend I'm missing two conventions I wish I could attend: MuseCon in Chicago and GenCon in Indianapolis. I hope everyone there is having a great time, and I especially wish many, many happies to our own Eric Coleman and Lizzie Crowe, who are celebrating their wedding this weekend at MuseCon! Mwah!

So, I'll be home, working on music that really needs to be finished. Howzabout you?

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[alverant.livejournal.com]

For Day 2 of Musecon, I attended the Interplay session with 5 other people. There's an Interplay site if you google it since it's hard to really describe what it is. Then was a panel about preparing for a performance. I never realized how much work you had to do before going on stage and I don't just mean rehearsing. There was a fun panel about writing a comedy sketch, unfortunately someone brought their kid along and the kid did NOT know how to behave and was so disruptive it effectively ruined the panel for me.

I got more guitar experience with the DADGAD panel. This was interesting. The idea is that you adjust your guitar strings so they tune to the above keys and suddenly strumbing some cords becomes a lot easier. I still had problems switching cords due to my inexperience, but I did eventually get better. I can see doing this in the future.

I don't know which was the bigger highlight, the Coleman/Lizzie wedding or Sooj's concert. I never went to a fannish wedding before and it was everything one would expect. A balance of seriousness and humor, tradition and practicality, forgiveness of mistakes, telling it like it is, and short (in comparison to other weddings I've been to). If I ever get married, I would want the same person presiding over it. Only downside is that the couple didn't have mics so we couldn't hear their vows. But I'll grant them their moment of public privacy.

Concert was awesome too. It was preceded by a panel about how all the sound equipment is hooked up. I had one of SJ's CDs (which she was nice enough to autograph earlier) which was used to help adjust the equipment. Everyone else but me could hear a big difference. It helped the concert a great deal and she got a standing ovation.

I'm gtg now, there's a panel about worldbuilding I want to attend and if I leave now I should be on time. Then I think I'm con-ed out. Time to do the grocery shopping and get chores done.

[ericcoleman]

I had thought it would be miked, but it didn't happen. Neither of us had the presence of mind to talk terribly loud. I intend to post the ceremony once I get the final version (all I have is a draft at the moment).

And that was exactly why I wanted the performance panel, as a sound guy I have worked with too many people who just don't know.

I'm glad you liked Interplay. It was a fun way to start the day.