Spring, 2015

After such a difficult Autumn, here I am, doing it again…

This Spring finds me Technical Director for “School for Wives” at University of New Haven, “Hairspray” for a middle school in Fairfield, “Fiddler on the Roof” (and events overall) at a school in NYC, Sound Designer for a different production of “Hairspray” at another college in Waterbury (my NYC school may be doing “Hairspray” next year too…), in addition to the usual litany of smaller projects. This is why I have a separate hard drive for my “design” work – fast Firewire 800 external drive boosts system performance when used as a scratch disc for video or audio. It is also becoming my Audio SFX drive, where I am building quite a little library of sounds. Looking into audio library and database options…

The interesting thing is that I’ll be doing a lot more carpentry this season than I’ve ever done before.  Not quite sure how I feel about that, but it’s an exciting set of skills I am learning…which involves building an 18’x32′ wall.  Go big, or go home!

As a side note, I won a contest last month for having the “worst tour nightmare” as judged by Chamsys, the lighting company that makes MagicQ.  I almost died on tour with my friends on the Pain of Salvation tour a couple of years ago.  For my trouble, I got some new hardware shipped to me from the UK – the ability to run lights via a USB to DMX adapter for my computer.  I can’t wait to learn this and integrate it with my work in Qlab. I already run most of my lighting from Qlab – now to just get that pesky lighting board out of the way!

-brian