For over the last month i've been holding regular bedroom shows in my division of a Surry Hills share house in inner city Sydney. Mainly as a format to force-learn how to play music and perform to an audience, as well as execute creative matters with my own recipe of humour and interest (musically especially) in DIY and low-fi manners and methods. I've always found most of my favourite acts, live especially, in among many things tend to keep things partially a satire; working irony in an intelligent and constructive way, mainly not taking themselves too seriously, which l think is a big turn-off. Originally the concept of this performance direction was to stage a 'Sex Tape bedroom residency' presumably over the course of four-six weeks, but while each show has been well-ordered and not much of a fuss l've decided to just keep it going, especially while l have the benefit of living and exhibiting my abilities in a central location.
For the time being it has been a bit too demanding as a novice musician to get too entertaining with my performance. The concentration and effort of having everything sounding musical and sync'd requires far too much concentration. More to be desired here.
For any want-to-be musicians out there, l strongly recommend a similar style of playing because as i've discovered, which has been backed up by a lot of better musician friends; playing to an audience is a very good and accelerated way of learning how to play. Coming up with thirty minutes of material and being able to pull it off consistently to a group of friends weekly will provide real reason to practice daily and teaches you a lot about what sound/style you're after when you have to make it gel over a period of time to your own and others expectations. Daunting but highly worthwhile :)
Might do a second entry about this?
30.04.12 (currently)
Jim - Yamaha Portatone keyboard - Moog MuRF - Korg KP3 - amp
- Sex Tape -
Jim S
