Discovery Pics

One of my favourite jobs is to record Discovery at the City Recital Hall.  Richard Gill conducts the Sydney Symphonia and discusses the music.  We set up in a little studio overlooking the stage from the side.  See some piccies.

Writer's Fest

The planning for our presence at the sydney Writer's Festival is well underway. We will be recording about 65 events and going out live on digital radio for 8 hours per day. It's full on. I have to co-ordinate all of the recordings in about 10 different rooms.  This involves making sure all the engineers have all the equipment they need, installing equipment into the rooms, looking after OH&S stuff, liasing with the venues and PA companies and Writer's festival people plus more...We are building a studio down at the venue to broadcast from. This is how it's going to work -

The Swell Season

Yeah I know this happened weeks ago, but I've got a bit of catching up to do on my life experiences.  This blogging thing is after all so that I can remember what has happened in my life.  So, easter monday at the Opera House from the very back row right in the middle I watched the Swell Season. I loved it.  It was one of those concerts I wasn't sure how much I was going to like it, but I did.  Ali has written things about the concert that I can't be bothered writing. In short, they sounded Irish, because most of them are, so the music has that Irish sound about it.  The fiddler from the Frames did a fiddly solo which I loved. There was too much kick drum in the mix, probably because we were on the back wall.  But you'd think the opera house would have perfect acoustics.  Haha wink wink. NOT.  UUUmm ... they write nice songs and play well.  If you want a taste of who they are, watch the movie "Once".  And the bit in the movie where they are in the recording studio take the cassette of their recording for a ride in the car to hear how it sounds in the car stereo - stuff like that really does happen.  We used to go on many a car trip around the block to listen to the mix. And here's one you can watch on youtube, not the whole band, but still cool.




Check out his totally shredded guitar.