And so the WAYO cycle continues

This Saturday, Miss 10 has her first audition to join a WAYMA orchestra.  Her cello playing has improved in leaps and bounds in the last 2 years, but so far, she’s really only been playing by herself. 
Playing in an orchestra or ensemble is such a different and enlightening experience that I really cherish from my [...]

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Well, it’s nearly time for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra concert! 
I’ve noticed a bit of news coverage over the last day or two about it in Australia.   Like this one on the Sydney Morning Hearld website – http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/video-in-symphony/2009/04/14/1239474911896.html.
I did have to re-upload my final Tan Dun video a month or two ago to be potentially used [...]

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Head shot photography

On the weekend, our 9.5yo daughter had an audition for a child part in an upcoming Les Miserables production. Wifey had a read through the sheet with instructions about the casting audition and saw that we needed to provide a head shot. I thought “Cool! I’ll get to use my flash setup!”.
So, I set up [...]

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No news is probably bad news

Well, it looks like I probably didn’t get into the next round of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra auditions. 
The offical “rules” say that potential finalists and potential alternates will be notified by or around the 5th February.  With eagerness, I’ve been checking my YouTube account and email accounts multiple times daily, but there’s been nothing…  It’s [...]

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra Audition Prep – Day 16

It’s ALL DONE!
My YouTube audition videos are finally online!   Although, when I checked this morning, they weren’t listed on the YouTube Symphony Orchestra audition videos, but I’m hoping that this is due to some delay in approval, etc.
Here’s video  1 of the Tan Dun Internet Symphony No. 1.

And here’s video 2 [...]

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra Audition Prep – Day 15

These last few days have been busy preparing for our 7yo’s two birthday parties – one for her school friends, and another for family and family friends. And so, I really only had parts of Saturday and Sunday to video the Tan Dun Internet Symphony violin part for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.
I set [...]

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra audition prep – Day 12

The deadline is fast approaching!
I haven’t had much practice lately, but the other day, my wifey took some time out to give me some feedback. I hadn’t realised yet, but I haven’t really played the Paganini for anyone else properly yet! I figured there was not enough time to get a violin [...]

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra audition prep – Day 8

The deadline for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra is coming up soon. And unfortunately practice hasn’t been going so well.
Two evenings of having friends over meant I could only play through the Caprice instead of doing a good practice session. I designated Saturday as a day of “rest” (and cleaning the pool), leaving Sunday [...]

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra audition prep – Day 3

I knew I had set a challenging target to get an audition entry in for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Two weeks to get the audition piece and a solo piece up to a standard I’d be proud to put on the internet for everyone to see.
Well, it was Day 3 yesterday. The Tan [...]

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra

I can’t believe I just found out about this yesterday.   It seems that Google/YouTube have started a project called the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.
You basically submit 2 videos – the first video has to be of yourself playing a piece composed by Tan Dun for this project.   This video will be mashed into a video of [...]

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