Solo Concert in SF 8/8

[damonsmith]

The first piece on my mp3 player on my solo page - http://myspace.com/damonsmithsolo is a study for this concert tomorrow:

room: Low Bows at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Z Programs ROOM Summer 2008 continues with an evening of electric and acoustic bowed strings of the bass clef persuasion:

Zoë Keating (cello & electronics)
Alex Kelly (cello & electronics)
Damon Smith (contrabass)
Merlin Coleman (cello & voice)

Each will do a short solo set, and Pamela Z will join all of them in an ensemble finale.

Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA

[StyleOverShow]

Contrabass - what is that exactly. Have a good gig. Best thing to do is interpret the music that you've memorized already. Let it play through you.

[oliebrice]

I hope you're glad of that helpful advice, Damon!

[Jason Sypher]

Or just play your memorized piece note for note like the guitar solo in Hotel California...

[damonsmith]

in some ways that is all the really happens when you play improvised music, just the order of sounds changes for the situation. Only in really rare times do wholesale new ideas come to you at the gig.

[Jason Sypher]

I agree. It's a lot of what you know with a few discoveries thrown in.