We are here!
I've met all the other nine now - and everyone is brilliant, genius and lovely!
Syrse, Ivan, Jxel, Claudio, Xiaoliang, Doo Jin, Alex, Vedran, Michael and me - the ten compositores! (kinda like the three amigos - but three fold plus one and without the sombreros!)
Hopefully in my next blog I'll have pictures of each of us and what we play - and hopefully (!) technology allowing mp3s of what each instrument sounds like - as some are quite unusual!
So far the general feeling is excitement that we've all finally arrived in the mountains of San Jacinto.
We are all still wondering just how this amazing idea is going to work - and we still have no idea what exactly we're writing...very intriguing!
Everyone is very open and fluid in their initial approach at the start of our musical adventure - none of us seem to have any inhibitions - which gives me the feeling that whatever we are going to be doing, and however it's going to work in the end, it's just that...it's going to work!
We've had a three hour coach journey to Idyllwild from LA. When we got out of LA, the scenery just got more and more barren and sparse.
Then we got higher...
The trees started appearing again, and the sand and stone remained - it's really beautiful.
We arrived at Idyllwild Arts (which is like a conservatoire for music and the arts) and all the buildings are log cabins, and log buildings and generally made of logs - it has a rather alpine feel about it - but really hot!
We've all been assigned our rooms now and we're all staying in rooms on the same floor - so we're all together which is great, as the next two weeks is also a lot to do with getting to know each other so we can work together over the next year.
We've also just got back from a beer and pizza session with David Rosenboom and Jana Morlen (Producer) just to break the ice and celebrate the start of the project.
A lot of, albeit very tired and jetlagged excitement came out of our informal meeting - and I think we're all ready to get down to business and start composing!
Earlier, during the meeting we were missing two of our fellow composers - as apparently one of us was not so lucky with baggage...! But they have arrived now, admittedly the baggage hasn't - but we're expecting it tomorrow!
Anyway - there's a follow-on party happening in room 416 (Jxel and Ivan's)...we have left over beer from the meeting earlier - and of course - no one likes a warm beer, so it needs to be drunk - we all concur!
It sounds as if there's a jam session going on in there too - so I'm going to take my recording equipment and start capturing the very first musical meeting of the very first 10 world composers to start a project at the vanguard of studying globalisation and human interaction - sounds interesting already...!
Speak to you soon!
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