Re: Saturday, the house tech said...
Hey... I spent a good hour or more a few weeks back, working with both of our in-house electrical departments (Federally Funded Building)... trying to get power dropped and connected up for a commercial baking oven an artist had requested for a performance. It was a (John Cage) 100th Anniversary performance (his stuff is known to be REALLY out there... like REALLY out there) so we went along with another departments suggestion that they may cook something as part of the performance, and did the leg-work and got it powered up properly.
The "artists" came in... took one look at it, and pulled out their drumsticks and went to work banging and scraping and knocking on it to make various sounds. Luckily no microphones were needed to amplify this non-sense, but neither was any of the electricity. We had it disconnected for safety's sake, when the smaller of the performers began to venture INTO the over to try making noise with the racks inside.
I've had the suitcase kick-drum a good few times too, I'm always surprised at how good they sound. I had one that came with an XLR output, was filled with some blankets and an SM57 if they were telling the truth, but I never even opened it to look, it sounded great! Maybe it's a regional thing? I'd take the suitcase over a poorly tuned actual drum any day... I wonder how many dopey sound-guys ask these musicians if they can cut a hole in their suitcase to get a mic into it "properly". :lol:
