{"id":1038,"date":"2015-05-12T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T00:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/martydjculture\/?p=182"},"modified":"2015-05-12T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T00:43:28","slug":"back-in-oly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/back-in-oly\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Oly"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got back to Olympia on May 3rd, and went right back to Seattle again for the event I played there before at Maxim’s. My friends Lizzy\u00a0and Karl\u00a0of Garlic Man & Chikn were having their bi-monthly show and my coworker Jessie AKA Night Fox was playing, so I went up wit her to see the show. I brought my Minolta that had a few pics left on the b&w roll I had been using in the Bay and finished it off there. Like I said in my other post about them, Garlic Man & Chikn were so fun as usual, and Jessie performed a great set despite being extremely tired from an event the night before. They had raffle prizes there this time and I won a Garlic Man & Chikn patch and sticker, and various odd items that I’ll leave up to the imagination . . .<\/p>\n

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me, Karl and Jessie in Seattle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Every day since then I have been working on two related projects; the first is a DJ set for a show I’ll be playing at Obsidian on the 23rd this month, and I’ve been working closely with my friend Krysta to have visuals to accompany my set. When I say working closely I mean she comes up with all the ideas for visuals and works on them in her studio, and I incessantly text and email her my\u00a0opinions based on what she has told or shown me, and discuss the songs I’ll be playing with her to let her know what I’m interested in and why. When I saw her last and saw her visuals, they were\u00a0above and beyond what I expected, and I had anticipated that I would be happy with what she came up with, so I’m very excited about this collaboration.<\/p>\n

The second project I’m working on is the show I’m performing at on the 23rd, because I’m also organizing it with my friends who I’m in a collective with. We are a women and trans collective called Signal Flow, and started in order to promote women and trans people in the electronic music and technology scene. So far we have had one mini fest and one workshop and this will be our second mini fest (we are all busy people!). We have had meetings and many email exchanges in between meetings to discuss details and figure out who will be playing, when, who will be doing sound, etc. Last night we finally figured out the lineup and set times and since we want as many people as possible to see the show, we are having it start early at 6PM and will be all ages until 10:30 PM, which is when I and other DJs will round out the end of the night with a dance party for the older crowd. I’m really excited about this show, because we have people from Oakland, Olympia, Seattle and Vancouver (Canada) coming out to Obsidian to play our show, and I’m genuinely excited to see every one of them play.<\/p>\n

I finished reading the essay I was reading that I mentioned by DJ Spooky, and I was really inspired and validated in reading what he had to say about DJing. My question about what the DJ represents in the music scene felt like it was put into words in the quotes I had posted before this one, and I’m going to reach out to some DJs I know to see if they can maybe expand on my question and add some points of view I hadn’t thought of yet. I also have been searching for places to live in Oakland or San Francisco and have a promising lead around the time I was wanting to move, so I’m hoping I’ll get a chance to talk to my old DJ mentor in LA about all of this and get some advice from her about what I should be asking for in terms of my rates when I do move.<\/p>\n

Until the Signal Flow show this month, I’m expecting to be rather busy preparing for it as I try to make plans for graduation and my move. \u00a0Here’s one more of my favorite quotes from DJ Spooky on DJing and the endless changeability\/possibilities available from mixing songs:<\/p>\n

“…my work…describing its presence in the art objects (some still call them songs) I create would be to see that they focus on “art as potentiality” with regard to a state of being-as-void, or continuous becoming.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got back to Olympia on May 3rd, and went right back to Seattle again for the event I played there before at Maxim’s. My friends Lizzy and Karl of Garlic Man & Chikn were having their bi-monthly show and my coworker Jessie AKA Night Fox was playing, so I went up wit her to see the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1064,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[99],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}