Upcoming music stuff
Here’s what’s currently going on with my music things.
The unrelenting passage of time
Wednesday night I had a massive pain flareup towards the end of choir practice, due to some stressy situations that were developing all at once on top of my continued lack of sleep due to working on Transitions. This had me basically incapable of doing anything for several days, and I spent the next few days mostly just lying on the couch and smoking weed.
Yesterday as I was coming out of that haze I learned from my next-door neighbor Joe that my back-yard neighbor Rick died, also on Wednesday night.
postponing the concert
I’m having a bad pain flareup and as much as I’d like to push through it and do the concert anyway, from experience I know that’ll just make things worse and I’m trying to get better at self-care and showing myself the same understanding I show others.
So, tentatively I’m planning on my next VR concert being on September 29, at 9 PM Pacific time, hosted on my VRChat group. And of course it’ll be streamed over on my Owncast. Here’s a Discord event link.
The great thing about performing virtually is that I don’t have to worry about venue booking. I can make my own rules for this and I don’t have to feel bad about the reality of my health.
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Concert time polling
Hey y'all, it’s been a little while since I’ve done a VRChat music performance, and I have a hankering to try out my new performing gear. Please vote in this poll so I can figure out what the best time is for a show!
(Don’t worry about the name you put in, and I’ve also set it to hide responses from each other. Strawpoll doesn’t have any “allow anonymous responses” option for time polls, unfortunately.)
Too many ideas, not enough time or energy
My brain is constantly exploding with things that I want to get done but my body keeps telling me “no.”
Stuff! And things!
Hello! It has been a hot minute! I should probably post things here!
Show went well
My first full VRChat concert went pretty well considering it was my first time doing such a large set. Previously I’d done single-song performances or song-circle gathering type things, so there’s a bunch of stuff I learned during the process of doing this.
TODO
Just tracking stuff for my own reference and also so y'all know what I’m up to too
Bandcrash updated
Well, this is silly: I just discovered that Bandcrash doesn’t properly escape HTML entities in the web preview player. Or rather, it didn’t. It does now, as of v0.7.9.
Upcoming VRChat performances
I have two upcoming VRChat performances happening.
- On Wednesday, August 28, at 7 PM PDT, I will be performing a song off my upcoming album Transitions at the Trans Academy’s “Moonlit Academy” concert series. Join the Trans Academy group for access to the instance.
- On Friday, August 30, at 3 PM PDT, I will be playing a full set of my songs in-world. This will also be streamed to my owncast instance for folks who are unable to join in VR (and I’ll hopefully record it for YouTube as well), but for the best experience, join my VRChat group for the easiest instance access.
UPDATE: I have made a separate VRChat group for my music stuff, MUSIC.1138. Please join that one for my VRChat concerts!
I hope to see you there!