Wow

So I did my first senior concert and it went really, really well. Everyone seemed to like it and recognized how hard I worked, blah blah blah. Old news! I played my first show with a band I joined, Septic Mountain, tonight, but I'm having a hard time not freaking out about how much I want to do for senior concert 2. I keep having ideas that sort of stick with me, but the problem with just "doing them" is that each seems to represent an extra 10-15 hours in the workroom, and I live in there as it is. At the moment I'm thinking about a drumpad consisting of a long mousepad on top of some piezos, where each piezo is linked to an amplifying circuit which is then linked to the triggers of a 4066 quad bilateral switch, causing brief connections between two fucked-up points on this big Radio Shack keyboard I've had since I was ten. I've also made some really good looping cassettes (always fun), and am working on rigging up two nice tape decks I found for loop-dubbing purposes. I also want to work out a synthesizer rig which I can play while I play drums, which involves gutting a broken wah pedal, building a good synth circuit, making the one foot-controlled potentiometer cause as much change in sound as possible, then putting it back together. I also have this whole insane LED thing I really really want to do, plus a more meticulous version of the piece for buzzers, cymbals, and gamelan tapes that I performed at SC1, plus maybe this collaboration with this crazy guy from my E-comp class last semester. All this is still in the early stages, and I have about six weeks until I must must must do another thing. Just had to write all this down before sleep.