{"id":6541,"date":"2014-04-05T20:10:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T20:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steampunkopera.wordpress.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2014-04-05T20:10:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T20:10:58","slug":"boom-act-3-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulshapera.com\/temp\/boom-act-3-down\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOM! Act 3 DOWN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay i have to change all the G chords in the verses of the last song\u00a0to Bm chords, but otherwise, the 3rd act is basically in the bag.<\/p>\n<p>In each of the operas i have a personal favorite act. In both the steampunk and the dieselpunk operas it&#8217;s the 1st Acts. It may be no coincidence that those were also the first acts conceived for the pieces. Thus far in the Atompunk, it&#8217;s the 3rd, which interestingly was pretty much the first Act conceived. The opera sprung up around the idea &#8220;well what if&#8230;.&#8221; and then from that scenario the rest fell into place.<\/p>\n<p>I will begin the 4th Act. The toughest thing about the 4th Act is i have to answer a whole bunch of questions you&#8217;ll all have by that point. i HAVE the answers to all the questions, it&#8217;s just a matter of&#8230; well look you can&#8217;t just stand there have them deliver long explanations. the Narrator walk out, raps a 5 minutes explanatory aria, cue warner bros closing music, ta DA! Done.<\/p>\n<p>Plus we have a situation which much be resolved and resolved it shall be. I&#8217;m missing a single plot point. i know what happens to every aspect of the situation and characters and i&#8217;m just missing one event that will get from point C to point D. But don&#8217;t worry, that&#8217;s not your problem.<\/p>\n<p>I will also over the next week make the arrangement to record the vocalists, most likely in late June. may is vaguely possible, but not really. I have to go to the states and record singers there for a pirate show and get that album done so it can be sold at the summer performances in Pittsburgh. PLUS i need time in between finishing the AO and recording the singers to insure there&#8217;s not some major suckage that i&#8217;m missing.<\/p>\n<p>When i made the steampunk opera, the 3rd Act was very different from how you know it. Byron was an entirely different character. The Voodoopunks didn&#8217;t exist, there was just a general gothy youth movement with a completely different song.\u00a0it wasn&#8217;t until i sat on it for a month or so and got some feedback from Mark Swetz that i realized the 3rd Act could be so much more. In fact, i realized it so late, i literally wrote In The Movement 2 days before leaving for London to record the singers and had them record 2 different versions of Act 3 in case i was making a dumb mistake by changing it so late in the game.<\/p>\n<p>I need time in between &#8220;finishing&#8221; the writing of it and recording the vocalists. i need to send the album to my trusted consultant Kevin Hulburt and Mark Swetz and maybe even Reggie Lutz to review and make sure i&#8217;m not making abd choices that i don&#8217;t see.<\/p>\n<p>So late june. Probably a July release. I would mention again this album will be released differently. I will release one Act every week for 4 weeks. THEN i&#8217;ll release the entire thing as one package (if you&#8217;ve gotten the week by week release it won&#8217;t matter, you&#8217;ll have the whole thing by then anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>The AO&#8217;s version of the Voodoopunk song is by far my favorite of the 3 operas. It&#8217;s not in Act 3, but i&#8217;m just saying.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there&#8217;s your update. Act 3: done. Act 4: comin&#8217; up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay i have to change all the G chords in the verses of the last song\u00a0to Bm chords, but otherwise, the 3rd act is basically in the bag. In each of the operas i have a personal favorite act. 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