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Hey here's looking at you!

Just reminding you I'll be jetting into London with ORT to take part in The 2024 Improvision Contest!

Making up Eurovision songs to raise funds for The Flying Seagull Project! London peeps (and those that can make it), be there to show your support and enjoy a show like no other!

Tickets 🎟️ link in my bio ⬆️

Hoopla @ The Miller SE1 8pm

Come join me this weekend and get your groove on, as I perform at Hoopla Improvision 2024

What will we sing?
What country will we represent?
What genre will the song be?

We won't know till the big show itself!🕺💃

Live at Hoopla this Saturday, raising funds for The Flying Seagull Project.

Link in my bio!

Hoopla Saturday 23rd November

£8.50, plus BF.

Doors open 7:45 pm / Show at 8pm

Hoopla Impro SE1

If you need some restorative listening this evening, I'll be doing my 235th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream tonight (Monday November 11, 8-9:30 PM EST/GMT-5). No synth: guitar, fuzz, wah, volume pedal, delays, reverb. Often it sounds like wind instruments. Give yourself an hour and a half break from things at twitch.tv/onezeromusic

Twitchonezeromusic - TwitchMusician, programmer, vertebrate. Apparently also a Twitch streamer, now. Live ambient music from Pittsburgh, PA.
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this week's deadcast explores the entwined roots of the & longform , including an interview with wavy gravy. before founding the sufi choir, allaudin mathieu helped invent (& personally named) The Harold, an influential structure for longform improv, alongside del close, who'd collaborated with the pranksters & the dead at the LA acid tests. close's partner john brent was one of owsley's early LSD distributors (as was w. gravy). dead.net/deadcast/dead-and-suf /2

this week, on a left-turning/zig-zagging good ol' -cast, we recover a lost tape of the dead jamming with 's sufi choir at winterland in march 1971, diving into hidden threads of dead history. it features the remarkable story of choir director allaudin mathieu (now 87!) who was an arranger for stan kenton & duke ellington, a downbeat writer, & pioneer with second city & the committee before meeting sufi sam lewis. dead.net/deadcast/dead-and-suf /1

It's the day before the election, so it's understandable if you feel stressed out. Tonight I'll do my 234th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream since I've started the Monday night series. Tonight seems like a #pedalSteel night. If you need to cool out or retrench, stop by from 8-9:30 *EST* (GMT-5). twitch.tv/onezeromusic

Twitchonezeromusic - TwitchMusician, programmer, vertebrate. Apparently also a Twitch streamer, now. Live ambient music from Pittsburgh, PA.
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Context: there's a local haunted house called Scare For A Cure that raises money for charity and is fully volunteer run. (Last year raised $50k for the Breast Cancer Research Center and also distributed thousands in scholarships and other donations). Additionally this isn't your typical "here's a series of themed rooms and spooks and nothing more", Scare runs a full plotline with interactivity, you do stuff and have a story you're participating in... in addition to getting shot with about a half dozen gore cannons within one hour...

I've been volunteering in different roles throughout the month, with some interruptions here and there. On Saturday, the final night of the event, I was resetting "Jekyll and Hyde's secret storeroom". This involved sneaking in behind groups to replace the mcguffin (a vial of serum) and reset the exit portal. Normally this involves sneaking down the hallway as soon as they're in the storeroom, waiting for the moment they exit the store room to slip in, reset it, then slip back out into the hallway and out a side door... but if groups run close together, I might have to wait in the store room as one group enters the hallway and the next group lingers in the next space, the moment they leave I slip out the door behind them and slip between the buildings to get back to my starting position.

One group however... they were moving so slow and had zero consideration for the fact that there's a production that cares about timing... they caused 2 groups to pile up right behind them. So resetting after them I had to duck into the next room instead of returning back... but then the group right after them was stuck waiting a really long time in that space before they could move forward while another group was in the hall... I literally had nowhere to go and by the sound cues there was only seconds before they came in the room and the group ahead wasn't even starting to leave...

I dropped into the fetal position, started sobbing about how Jekyll killed everyone and just played the victim who was completely broken and hiding, and when they left i cried about how it wasn't safe out there (the portals all led to "in between" spaces where "The Hunter" was).

Funnily enough the guide for that group was the casting director and the actor playing Jekyll/Hyde was one of the main co-directors of the show watching through a crack in the wall going "oh shit" at seeing me still in there.

The actual official plan for that happening was to just suck it up and let it happen... nobody counted on me coming up with split second improvisation to maintain immersion...

SCARE for a CURESCARE for a CUREA 100% volunteer organization in Central Texas, we create interactive haunted adventures while mentoring youth to raise money for Breast Cancer Resource Center and other local charities.

Tonight, Monday October 28, from 8-9:30 EDT (GMT -4) will be my 233rd #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic. After all these weeks...this feels a lot like four years ago. It's ok to feel under stress right now. If you need something gentler to focus on, join us at twitch.tv/onezeromusic

(Tonight might be a six-string in open tuning; likely the $60 Fahey-tuned Univox hollowbody.)

Twitchonezeromusic - TwitchMusician, programmer, vertebrate. Apparently also a Twitch streamer, now. Live ambient music from Pittsburgh, PA.

If you plan to vote by mail THIS TUESDAY (October 29) is the deadline to request your absentee ballot.

However you will #vote, please make a plan and do your research on both the candidates so you can make informed choices.

Important Dates for Ohio Voters:
➤10/8 - 11/4: Early In-Person & Mail-In Voting
➤10/29: Absentee Ballot Request Deadline
➤11/5: #Election Day (vote in-person or drop off absentee ballot)