Today we performed at Georgia State @ the Downtown Digital Arts Entertainment Lab for a class of Documentary film makers.
We were invited by the professor for Georgia State's Documentary Film making, Roberto, who we met a few weeks ago at a gig.
Roberto is interested in possibly making a documentary w/ our music incorporated as part of the story; so, he said he'd be in touch to discuss his ideas more. This week, he gave us a call to invite us to perform for documentary students at a special seminar held by the school and the National Association of Latino Producers.

The course was taught by the Documentary Doctor, Fernanda, and she wanted to have us come perform some of our original music and discuss how we like to work on music for films, what kind of needs we have when working on a film, what limitations, what is acceptable for the film maker to expect/request, etc.

We planned on arriving at 10am, but when we typed in the address for the school into the Garmin navigation system, it didn't know any streets with our address! Uh-Oh! So, I ran back into the house to try mapquest w/ the same result. Then, I started to panic a bit, and we called Roberto. Luckily, we got the directions from him and got there in time. We did feel a bit rushed w/ our set up though.
Today we set up our sound as usual w/ the exception of one critical thing- it was the virgin outing for our new Bose L1 system. It's not the ideal to feel rushed for set up time when you're trying something new, because whenever we have new equipment the learning curve can turn into a curve ball under pressure and mess you up- today it all went very smoothly. The L1 is a tower speaker that broadcasts a lot of sound for such a small speaker, and then it sits on top of a bass module for the full spectrum of sound. In a normal concert, we will use two of the towers on the bass module. However, with today's session we tried both of us through just one module, and it was ample sound. Nice quality sound too. The Docu Doctor was impressed- so that's good. I hope that the session will help us work more with film makers. We've been really happy with our past music placements and want to continue working on film/tv more.
At any rate, we met up with Roberto again and we've got plans to go to dinner at his house soon. His project sounds very interesting and he seems like an interesting person to get to know as well.

I'm looking forward to working more with the Bose system more before we head out on our Feb. tour next week. I know that we won't have much time to experiment then. But while we're home we'll enjoy doing that. Last night, in preparation for today's first time out, we hooked up the Bose and started all sorts of fun tests. We tried out about 5 different mic placements on the cello and tested the sound difference between two cello mics. It's been fun! We're kinda crazy that we find that fun, but it does it for us- what can I say?
Off to experiment....