The Jury Is Out...

[figmo]

...and I appear to have bombed.

I tried something different at ConChord for my concert. Instead of futzing with my guitar, I tried using the synth for all my numbers and using props and dancing around.

I thought it worked.

If the con reports of ConChord are any indication, it didn't.

In Debbie Ridpath Ohi's Blatherings I'm only mentioned by name (you know the bit: "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything") and in David Okamura's ConChord report on rec.music.filk I'm notably not mentioned at all (same thing).

Okay folks -- from those of you who saw it or heard about it, what am I doing that sucks so bad? Please! I can't improve my act if I don't get feedback!

Comments

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Honestly? From someone who (a) likes you and (b) was there for the whole thing? It sounded like you hadn't practiced. Like, at all. Your pitch was kind of tentative on some things, and one whole song was clearly topping you out - but you didn't adjust the midi beforehand ('capoing' down, as it were), or whatnot, you just let it shove you higher than you really ought to've been going. The scansion also felt kind of fumbled, in places, and just generally ... the overall impression was that you'd gotten the midis somewhere, decided two days before the con it might be a fun thing to do, and thrown yourself at it.

Plus, some of them seemed to go on for a very long time, after we'd gotten the joke and, honestly, after we'd already quietly wished you'd go on.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I actually did practice. The "gotcha" was I had a really bad cold and it totally f***ed up my range and accuracy. I was afraid I'd start hocking loogies on stage.

Re: the MIDIs and pacing, that's the kind of feedback I need. I'm not sure whether it's "too much at once" or whether I need to cut some of the poems down a bit -- or both. Anything more specific would be appreciated.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Huh. You couldn't tell you were flaring out the top of your range on that one song?