Good Times

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 Progress

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


Cheers,

Portable and Tourable Art Stands

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.

Take advantage of the TBA help towards putting on events

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.

Also if you're curious on HOW to organize events, just check out my free tutorial (still being updated) on how to organize events from my google documents here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQwTxdWyY-0YZGYycHo4cHhfNzZmNWd2MzVocg&hl=en

Dark Room in the works

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

UPCOMING ZINE - still looking for content

TBA Collective got a photocopier donated from CBC radio so I've taken it upon myself to continue a zine that I put on the back burner earlier this year to concentrate on event organizing.

This first issue seems to be very specific on art and music, which makes sense seeing my involvement with TBA. It includes a few artist profiles which I based off interviews I had with a few artists (The feature: Artist Andrew Robson and Photographer Cat Aseneault), a "where to check out art" list of artspots in Moncton as well as a few "how to"s for bands, that I took out of some tutorials I've been working on for these workshops I'd like to put on for MIME 2010..

If anyone is interested in submitting any content they feel has relevance to publicize to our community, they can email it to jonah@tbacollective.com