What's That Noise?
Too much to blog about!
Mon, May 15, 2006 - 12:23 AMI had a great Florida trip with Bob. Insanely tangled mangroves! Alligators! Feral chickens roaming through downtown Key West! A tree showering pink flowers on our tent like some ceremonial blessing! And we found the skeleton of a wood stork, which was really cool. Do any of my faithful readers have step-by-step instructions for making a neanderthal-style flute out of the wing bones of a very large bird? I googled it, and of course, there are lots of pages with pictures of flutes made by Neanderthals on up, and there's even a recording of music played on an acutal 9000 year old Chinese bone flute, but I haven't found instructions yet. What, didn't Neanderthals have websites?
It will take forever to finish this blog at this rate. Moving right along, then Djinn played the last of our weekly gigs at My Moon. It was our best show ever! (This does not reflect at all on the fact that Brian couldn't make it, since he was touring with Raquy. We missed you, Brian! But we put on a great show anyway. So there.) We had this great telepathy going, so our arrangments were tight, and our improvisations were wild yet solid. I love this band!
And tonight, er, this morning, I just got back from Sami's birthday party. Sami is a brilliant Arabic violinist, and very many of his friends are similarly talented musicians. Qanun! Santur! Oud! Trumpet! Singers! Mosquitos! No wait, that was Florida.
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Tue, May 16, 2006 - 12:07 PM
you rock Mellisa
hey Mellisa!
thanks for coming to the party and hanging out. it meant alot to him to have so many of his friends come out and play music with him. i love the hurdy gurdy, what a cool instrument. falu loved your playing! see you soon, xoxo robin (sami's better half... ;D) |
