{"id":2781,"date":"2012-03-28T21:18:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2012-03-28T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:18:15","slug":"casual-opera-update-lets-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/casual-opera-update-lets-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual Opera Update: Let&#8217;s Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We so very rarely chat. Let&#8217;s. Green tea or beer depending on time of day are my usual accoutrements.<\/p>\n<p>I figured it would be a nice quiet week heading into leaving for London on the 3rd of April to record the vocalists and finish the anxiously awaited album. I&#8217;ve been waiting MONTHS to finally have the time to get to a Freesmasonry multipart series, much like Golden Dawn, Spiritualism and Theosophy and even thought this would be the week.<\/p>\n<p>But no. See, i&#8217;ve been picking at Act 3 for months. Musically it works. Plot-wise&#8230; i keep waiting for the day when people will start pointing out the&#8230; plot holes. Not holes, really. Just&#8230; oh this has been bugging me. I feel somewhere down the road someone&#8217;s gonna nail me to the wall for Act 3, just a can&#8217;t quite explain why. I obsess over the 3rd Act, try to reimagine it, decide i&#8217;m just being insane, \u00a0listen to it, think it&#8217;s fine. But&#8230; yet&#8230; plot wise&#8230;. character development\/motivation&#8230;. i can&#8217;t leave it alone.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, you will finally suddenly realize the key to a new paradigm at 4 AM 6 days before you leave to record the damn thing.<\/p>\n<p>To get to the point, i believe i shall cut 4-5 minutes, replace it with another 5-6 (each Act is in the 20 minutes range) and that should sort everything out. Don&#8217;t know exactly HOW to assemble this new 5-6 minutes, but i assure you, i&#8217;m obsessing along quite nicely. ( i need to accomplish 4 things. I do not have a lot of time to do this and more time is not a solution. Cramming information or stuff you want to be in there is very bad. Very bad. Simple and elegant is always best. Even if it&#8217;s NOT simple and elegant it should FEEL simple and elegant. A pop culture example i could sue would be The Matrix. Matrix 1: simple and elegant. Matrix 2: crammed in and story arch feels awkward.)<\/p>\n<p>HowEVER, i DON&#8217;T have time to determine whether i&#8217;m truly doing the right thing. I have 6&#8230; no, after today 5 days til i leave. I don&#8217;t have time to sit on what i come up with and compare it to the present one only to find out the first draft was better. Therefore i must record BOTH versions, just in case.<\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t that thrilling to know? Here&#8217;s all you need care about:<\/p>\n<p>The final sessions for the finished album will occur between the April 4th and 18th. It will feature our previous team of awesomeness: Kayleigh McKnight, Lauren Osborn and Jason Broderick. We will also add a 4th voice as the Doll Jasper who i shall introduce at the\u00a0appropriate\u00a0time. (re: once i actually cast it which will be very soon)<\/p>\n<p>The complete show will be available in May. I&#8217;m hoping May 1st. I may even include the alternate version of Act 3 as a bonus to&#8230; well&#8230; anyone who cares enough to want it, basically.<\/p>\n<p>So there you go. Now i gotta go back to banging my head against the wall until i work out this Voodoopunk stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We so very rarely chat. Let&#8217;s. Green tea or beer depending on time of day are my usual accoutrements. 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