Freaked
Is it Freq Boutique, or Freak Boutique? At last night's Freq Boutique, one of the performers brought his cosplaying furry friends along, and he was dressed up himself during his performance. Freaky!
I performed a couple of sets later. Without a freaky costume I felt seriously underdressed. But I made good music that was well received by the crowd.
Here's the live stream of the night. I start at 2:14:40. You can skip earlier to the second performer to see AMRA play in costume, and perhaps catch a glimpse of some of the cosplayers in the audience.
This was my third time playing at Freq Boutique, and I'm starting to get quite comfortable performing live with a modular synthesizer.
The first time I had a highly sequenced and heavily practiced set, with some improv but mostly driven by the sequencer.
The second time was more free form, but I still practiced a lot to create an overall composition that drove the live performance.
This time, my practice was mainly just improvised jamming. I made the patch several weeks ago, jamming and evolving it because it was fun rather than trying to build a song. I wasn't originally on the schedule for this Freq Boutique, but when Alex called for more performers at the last minute, I volunteered since I had this fun patch in progress. I recorded one practice set to check the mix, then went into the live performance with very little organization in mind. I just played an improvised jam following a loose A-B-A structure, and made the intro and outro the same. I'm very happy with the result and hope I can find time for more modular synth performances.