weirdquark

I'm terrible at con reports. Somewhat overdue, Balticon has come and gone and the Sundown: Whispers of Ragnarok performance went fabulously well. We had several cameras going so we could put together footage for a DVD; I haven't seen any of it yet, but our videographer was happy with what he got and our photographer also was taking video and made a non-official trailer out of the footage that he got, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it. Especially since I wear glasses with a fairly strong prescription, don't have contacts, and had a patch over one eye for the entire performance. So the things you hear about the All-Father's "all seeing eye"? Not so much in my case. (I need to try contacts again.)

I didn't get to do much at the con that wasn't rehearsing for the play or going to panels with other Sassafrass people or being on panels myself; I did get to open filk on Friday for a bit and while I was there we had (informally?) a space theme going, which is always awesome. But I'm sad to not have made it on any other day but Saturday I was too tired and on Sunday I had to pack to get to the airport because I was leaving after Monday morning panels.

Over the last year I had been practicing with recordings so we could all get used to the same timing on songs despite not rehearsing together, and making recordings with people while being in different parts of the country. We had a group get-together back in January for a few days but not all of the music was done then, so this was the first time everyone was there to practice everything together.

Fun thing: If I Could Ask You, the quartet for Odin and Loki and Baldur and Hella, was one of the songs which had been started but not finished in January, so the four of us had been able to rehearse the beginning but I hadn't sung it with anyone other than Thrud (who sings Loki) since it was finished. And that was actually kind of appropriate, because what happens in that song is that Baldur and Hella spend the entire time trying to get Odin and Loki to listen to them and Odin and Loki spend the entire time ignoring their children and just keep yelling at each other. So having Odin and Loki in Texas rehearsing together and Baldur and Hella in Boston rehearsing together and only meeting briefly to make sure our timing worked? Yeah. I'm still not sure what Baldur and Hella say in that song; I was busy.

In general our rehearsals went well, though we had enough problems (as is traditional) to make sure the performance went well and we never actually managed a full run through until the performance. But we pulled it together because we had all worked hard on it for the past year and more and I'm really glad to have been a part of it.

In other news, the Sassafrass Kickstarter has one more week to go; we're hoping to close out strong with enough funds to help get everyone together to do the full Sundown: Whispers of Ragnarok performance again soon.

Half an hour to record twenty seconds.