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Go out onto your balcony on a warm summer evening with an electric guitar, Window Box Moog, piano accordian, trombone etc and join in the festive collaborative excitement that is Balcony Jam.
On a designated evening at a designated time, musicians within an apartment block go out onto their diminutive
patios, verandahs, balconies etc and begin playing to a four/four beat. Individual balcony amplifiers increase the volume so that all around may listen and tap their feet and click their fingers to your new urban groove.
Flashing lights and disco balls will add to the effect on each balcony and you may feel part of the collective creative environment without ever having to actually meet or speak to your other band members.
window box moog
Window_20Box_20Moog
[benfrost, Oct 30 2005]
Vagina music
http://b00mb0x.org/blog/000562.html
[Ling, Oct 30 2005]
Tekno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetekno
boomboomboomboom [Trickytracks, Oct 30 2005]
Robert Moog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moog
pronounced to rhyme with "vogue" which means I have been saying it wrong for years. [calum, Oct 31 2005]
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The music might evolve as one walks down a block...street. |
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'Happens all the time where I come from...
Last time I was in Parma a violinist was leading the neighbourhood... The accordionist was playing second fiddle. |
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If they were playing Vagina music, then I suppose you could call it vagina j... |
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I'm thinking that a band whose members never actually speak to each other might not be one I'd actually like to listen to - Phil in 5C is playing Stairway to Heaven on guitar, Joanne is crooning Country Roads in 10A, Sam on drums in 6F is pounding out Ant Music, and Alexis in 1E is playing Toccata & Fugue on her electronic organ. |
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I have seen bands play from balconies before now, complte with light shows, and I'll give you a croissant if they at least practice together beforehand. |
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(Yeah, yeah, I know many successful band members stopped talking to each other but went on to huge success. That's not the same thing at all.) |
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Bunbunbun... if only for the category. |
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Of course, I'm afraid that people would
mind if some of my friends hooked up
their +10kW soundsystem on my roof,
and we started dj-ing loud distorted
breakcore and (free-)tekno, as part of
the jam. "What? It's a 4/4 beat, you
wuss." |
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Still, I'd like to try this where I live. I
believe there's lots of accordeons and
trumpets and guitars around. (and me &
my powerbook full of noise, of course)(I
live in somewhat of a community of
aging artists) |
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//community of aging artists// |
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Not many of them around, these days. HIV gutted most of the artistic communities, sadly. |
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//HIV gutted most of the artistic
communities// |
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Uhm, [UB].... I'm not in _that_ kind of
community... |
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//I'm not in _that_ kind of community...// |
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please be careful of what you are saying Trickytracks. There's little value in ignorance. |
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I'm sorry, I believe I'm missing something?
It's not my intention to insult/hurt
anybody. |
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You guys need to lay some information out on the table before this gets out of hand. |
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This idea makes me suffer from ESES! |
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//before this gets out of hand// |
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I think that was one of the fundamental problems. |
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Quite. :) But still, I'm curious as to why I
might be offending people. |
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You're not. It was a warning to be aware of PC concerns, in an open community that prides itself on being non-discriminatory. |
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Ah, right. Rest assured, I wouldn't
dream
of doing so. I'm still a bit confused as to
why you would bring up the subject HIV
in
combination with artistic communities,
though, but my reply was purely
intended
as a joke, referring to 60's/70's
communal
houses, what with the Sexual Revolution
wreaking havoc and all. Again, I'll
assure
you that I'm as non-discriminating as
the
rest of you.
(God, I feel stupid even having
to write this, but oh well. ) |
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Mine was just an observation that it left a gaping hole in the music, painting, dance and writing communities. Nothing sinister. |
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Did you notice that a few years back, [bf]? |
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I'm not sure how long you've been part of the arts scene. <Mental image>[benfrost], with Affogato, in a cafe in Acland Street, St Kilda, budding artists praying at his feet.</mi> |
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As much as I hate to pee on the party here, I figure that balcony jam could work provided that every musician was in close proximity of each other- like the apartment beside it. If you try to jam with anyone else in the apartment above or below then you run into delay issues from the sound bouncing off of the adjacent buildings. The lead guitar player is playing on beats 2 & 4 thinking that he is playing on beats 1 & 3. |
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I could see this. and actually I would love it. My fondest memory of the 11th grade (age 16) is when we performed ad lib pencil, ruler, foot and hand rhythm jam on our desks and the moment the teacher walked in-dead silence. We laughed. |
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I guess my concern is acoustics in a concrete jungle; would the echo throw off the base player a city block away. |
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