Hope everyone’s summers went well. Mine was something else. TBA started off in May doing a silent auction acoustic event, then a "Summer love" event in June with psychedelic lights, live music and art exhibition. Between those two shows, some of the TBA Crew went to Fredericton to participate in a House Art show set up by Mike Erb and Ashley Theriault at their house. Other than the TBA Collective events we put on this summer coming up to Messtival, I got a chance to play my solo act at Follyfest, a great festival coordinated by a group of artists and musicians called Feelsgood. I used to play my solo act a lot. At one point in fact, the most. Then The Umph, Morse Code, Something Delicious, Motorleauge, Quoteunquoteonhiatus happened. Didn’t see that comin’. But now, I brought it back. And did stuff to it like loops and added a new pedal board. Thanks for the invite Follyfest. You officially revived my solo project. After Folly, I played an afterparty event for the screening of the doc Highway Gospel, a film which Jon Jerome did the soundtrack for. Jon also played.
Where Mario (Something Delicious and QUOH bandmate) (and wonderful friend) is in Grandfalls indefinitely, it puts the others projects on a bit of a hold, which can have it's advantagess if you already have a lot going on. I think it’s best to enjoy the time you have with someone, no matter the amount. And Mario comes down sometimes and we high five about it. From there, I did a psychedelic lightshow at Evolve with Mike Ritchie, joining his project "Eye Candy" of liquid gels and oils with my digital projections of time laps and stop motion animation videos.
I also had the pleasure of guesting on keys/vocal fx with Paiens for two sets at Evolve.
Shortly after that, I joined the band. Then did a solo set at the Kuato CD Release along with photography exhibtion – something I recently started doing.
The summer continued with more Paiens shows. Then we held Messtival.
Now, Messtival was my summer. I really let Messtival take over my life this year. I went part time at The Postman and even trained someone to take the rest of my load, which is maybe a big risk employment-wise for me, but it had to be done for the peace of mind of trying to put Messtival together.. Anyway, I’m proud of how it turned out. I have to say though, for those of you whippersnappers that love someone - don’t lose sight of that in the mix of it all. It’ll get to you when things start to slow down and you start thinking about what really matters.
After Messtival, I did a solo set at Sunseeker Festival along with a few other TBA crew peoples such as Phil Flowers, The Rhythm Section and the Jedis of Funk and partied my last ounces of party’age for the rest of the year I’m sure. I enjoyed murdering Wanda, Ian MacMillan's party accessory, in various ways.
From there, I played a couple of Paiens shows, Sean Booth's CD Release and here we are.
Now I’m done with my big load. I worked a little bit, but feel a strong need for human connection, education and exercise. I've been going barefoot jogging at Victoria Park everyday and usually read afterwards. The current book is a Dan Gillis lendsy called "Reflections from the journey of life", which is a collection of quotes from the Dalai Lama. On Tuesdays, I go to guided meditation held by Patrice Leblanc, which has been helping me rediscover my true essence and on Thursday I go to yoga held by Beth Dobson. Now that the summers done, I’m looking back into our other activities such as open discussion forums, bad movie night, and Cinema Politica screenings and working towards the fall schedule of that. At some point soon, I need to start doing things that pay money again, but I'm glad to finally be back to the Botsford Station and TBA Collective routine. It's what brings me peace of mind and heart. Coming up, Botsford Station has a fundraiser dinner/silent auction where the money is going towards building a second set of stairs for the building. Tickets for the dinner can be purchased at Artsy & Vintage. For TBA Collective, we have a special art performance piece of sorts in Victoria Park for Festival J’est the last week of September and a beer tasting and presentation event October first from the local beer maker Acadie-Brous. Both events are someone else’s spearhead which is nice. I’m doing a good part for the J’est, but other than that, it’s just my solo stuff, my artwork and Paiens. Paien’s playing Havest Jazz and Blues festival next week in Fredericton and MMW plays the same night as us, so as soon as we’re done, it’s RUN TO MMW.
That's my wrap up of the summer. Fall is the time for going back inward, for learning and creating with others. Let's see what comes of that.
I found this story during my backlogging of documents. It was written about two years ago and I have little memory writing it.
3 hours, 53 minutes and 30 seconds ago
By Jonah Hache
The sound of screeching wheels from beside our apartment complex jumps into our window from the other room. Shaun and Jamie are alarmed. I’m not so calm myself. Ewan comes storming into our living room yelling in fear where me, Jamie and Shaun sit vegetated. Ewan’s on day two of celebrating his birthday and at this very moment has decided to abandon his consistent elevation of obscurity and settle down to watch a movie with us.
We couldn’t decide what to watch. The choices were everywhere. Ewan first suggested the 80’s B non-classic Dr. Mordrid, a film where, if I were twelve years old, I would have fast forwarded for the 1 cordial nudity scene. Suffice to say, me, Jamie and Shaun, who were still recovering from the thought of what Ewan was up to moments before he entered our apartment, had other films in mind. Shaun had earlier stepped into the living room with a full supply of films wearing a bloody TV Rentals T-shirt with the nametag “Earl” loosely hanging onto it. Jamie suggested one of Shaun’s choices Gonzo and we all agreed over our second choice Zombie Strippers and third choice, the illustrious Dr. Mordrid. Watching a film about Hunter S Thompson seemed to really identify with Ewan. He’d step into the other room to fiddle with the window blinds.
“You’re bending them” I said.
No reply.
The evening was turning out to be a success, but suddenly... I lost consciousness. When I woke up everything was different. I looked around. My visuals weren’t even connecting with what made sense. Shapes were different and gravity was looser. I felt sick to my stomach. I didn’t know how or where to sit. Dizzy, I feared loosing consciousness again. This immediately put me out. Blackness. Nothing. I try to say something but nothing comes out. I’m not even there nor can I hear or see what I am. Pop. I’m back. It’s been 5 seconds and I’m figuring out what the D L is. It’s blurry. Focus sets in. I’m in the livingroom, typing every single thing I just wrote. I pause.
I just had a really awesome break from doing a soundtrack for a short film on Fred Ross, a painter from Saint John here at The Postman. I do contractual work for them such as recording voice overs, editing audio for local television shows, the occasional putting something together or rewiring, and the random this and that. I've done a soundtrack for them and some location sound work. This current film I'm working on is directed by Mike Cowey and this will be the 4th soundtrack I compose for him about artists. Now that we've done 4, I feel a lot more comfortable with the director's style and our communication's pretty down for what the process will be for them. I've been working pretty late lately trying to catch up with other projects, but December seems to rock so getting things done is motivating. Bah, so, I take break for some air and come back to mess around with the funest beatcore, making the film look much crazier than it should. Like, modifying delays, time shifting snipets of beats - a combination of slow and fast and normal, placed at attacks of the mellow piano and texture and sometimes off sync as well.
It feels good to write something. I wanted to use this blogspot as documentation to look back upon to make sure I'm on-track. Then facebook came. I might just casually use this blogspot letting myself get away with my gramatical errors and open thoughts.
So, I saved the music to this film as something else... I really like it, but this documentary looks weird with it... Good music, but not a good weird... ;) The music to this doc is basic modern classical. I'll add the occasional texture like drop for overtone of note hold of the overall melody, but no, this music would not be approved for exposure. It doesn't fit. It makes it seem like the themed character in the Doc, who by the way is in his 80s, is talking to you about space or mysticalness... but he's talking about the art process. Which is good. The music simply just doesn't fit. I digress, because I was still satisfied with the version, but in a "that was a nice break" kinda way. It's like desert after supper. I think that makes sense.
I might come on here and talk about Botsford next time. I've got a lot of things to say about Botsford that I think will send people to a different world. With lazers and robots.
TBA Collective's moved into a warehouse and are hitting it hard in many ways! I haven't been using this blogspot lately as I've been updating a facebook page that's been dedicated to the Projects and Events I've been taking on....
Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jonah-Hache-music-art-events-projects/107871152594916
This idea was pitched almost a year ago from Janet Mlodecki, but it's finally started.
We're taking 3 indoor doors and connecting them together to make an "N" shape with standard door hinges to fold together. The N shape will keep them stood to hold art onto them along with removable bottom brackets. The bottom brackets will be built as two triangle on each side, held together by a strip of steel on the bottom. The bottom strip of steel will fit into a grove at the bottom of the doors.
Next is to see if we can modify the size to make the doors more transportable and if we can hollow them out to preplace artwork inside the casing of the doors for a faster setup. They are hollow to begin with but we need to make sure they will stay stable with only one layer on one side. An idea to keep them stable is to add a thicker sheet of plywood on the side that keeps the layer. It also makes it more stable to attach picture hanging accessories.
I've invested 2 years into putting on events with TBA Collective and I must say, it would be much harder to pull this stuff off myself without the collective. At a TBA meeting, I'd pitch an idea, if it gets approved, they've always been there to help me with logistics on what I need to have there, what we should look out for and how the event will be run, as well as getting people to volunteer to do different tasks for event. It's honestly the best contribution I've ever received as an event organizer. Now that I'm taking a hiatus from the spearheading side of events to take on more projects with TBA, others should take advantage of using our resources for event organizing! If you have an idea art/music related that's original that you need help with, pitch it to our TBA people! You can start by posting it on the TBA forum to see if you get an bites! http://www.tbacollective.com/forum Next you can contact me (jonah@tbacollective.com) to see when the next meeting is and pitch it in person! I can't approve anything myself, but the group is the real collective decision and they've never steered me wrong.
During the big move from one TBA Headquarters to another, I moved the screen printing equipment to Cat and Jorfs house they now live. The screen printing equipment currently needs some things to get it running. These things include: -more emulsion -ventilation -room separation for designated tasks such as dark room usage -a basin (got one!) -a bathtub -the plumbing accesories needed to connect this
