Just For The Sake Of A Post
I've decided that from now on the SCP should play nothing but the star wars cantina song, so friggin fun! "We'll play it.. we'll play it again, and when they ask for an encore.. WE'LL PLAY IT AGAIN!!" lol everytime I think about Jesse's "big one" or Jesse's "little one", I giggle.. I'm a nerd. I blame Helen.
Anton and I did some crazy jiving today.. seriously guys, the jive is so much fun, it's fast and the girl gets to spin every few steps.. I love how I walk into dance class grumpy as hell and am smiling like a lunatic within 5 minutes.
Tonight was the Hart House Symphonic Band's last concert of the year. And Keith's last concert ever (that being the conductor, who actually apparently is gay and once played sax in TYWO, two things I had not known). We.. ok, it sucked. It was a little embarrassing. The poor audience. But, despite the idiot bass sax squeaking and the idiot saxes in general, it felt good to play. Do any of you crazy music nuts know what the term for this is?: when I played an F# by Laura's half full water bottle, you could feel the bottle vibrating, but when I played a G or an F or anything else, it did not vibrate. Something to do with sympathetic vibrations or overtones or, I don't know, but it was really cool.
Ok, Anthony and I seriously just spent like an hour and a half arguing over the definition of the word "random".. kind of awesome.
Here's a picture of Kei and myself after that makeover business.. though it's kind of hard to tell here, and I definately look like an alien!


9 Comments:
hmm, how about "natural resonance" or "natural frequency"?
i wanted to see the HHSB but i had a saxamaphone gig with the TYWO jazz band. i'm soooo jealous of the bass sax. i played bari for 2 years and loved it...the lower the better! soprano saxes can just die.
aww i didn't know you liked cantina band so much! i'm glad. although i think at times it sounds a bit weird, but hopefully that will go away once we polish it. hey are you calling me a nerd?? ok fine.
11:55 AM
Was this saxophone gig in question on Saturday night, and was there a replacement/no drummer?
4:37 PM
Whenever you play (or make any noise for that matter) you make vibrations that pass through the air and everything else the sound goes through. When you played the F# you hit the resonance frequency of the half full water bottle, which means you made it vibrate at the frequency it "likes" to vibrate at, so it started vibrating noticeably. If you find just the right note and play it loud enough you can break brittle materials like glass, or concrete (might not be able to do that without some special equipment).
I can make my chandelier shake by playing a G out of tune.
6:47 PM
Heh wow Colin.. you're my hero.. I totally forgot that you're also a band geek at heart! Let's all lock Kate in a closet and jam together one day.
<3
6:58 PM
We can trick her in there with cookies. Who wouldn't walk into a closet for cookies?
The wondow at my house shakes on Es and Gs, but nothing else, and there is a term for it and a term for WHY it does it, but ALAS, I have also forgotten both.
:J
11:17 PM
yup the gig was sat night at the glorious le parc. and yup there was no drummer so colin drummed.
9:52 PM
I think I've just stumbled on a band geek convention. I can't believe how much I can relate to all of this. :P
I don't think I'll ever shake my band geekness, nor do I want to.
Band Geeks Unite! *tweet*
12:46 PM
cc? who be that? carolyn?
ah yes.. all band geeks are cordially welcome :P
2:29 PM
See, Colin called up MDHS asking Mr. Thomas if anyone could play kit for him that night...and it figures the one weekend this would happen is the weekend I'll be out of town anyway.
12:19 AM
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