LNOYL

Our first gig as a trio. Lot’s of ideas got implemented this night:

Venue is booked: “KunstKINO 108″

48 Abell Street, Toronto, ON. Nov 28, 2009. 7pm to 11pm.

LNOYL Vinyl, CD, & Graphic Novella Release. 48 Abell Street, TO. There is no cover or cost to attend. Food and beverages on site.

When: November 28th, 09. 7pm to 11pm. Live recording starts at 9:30…

Where: 48 Abell Street, Toronto, ON. We booked a studio space called “KunstKINO 108″. It means artfilm. See the map:

Details (scroll to the bottom to see the latest):

The night will comprise of a cool gathering of friends. December is soon, and rest assured, stocking stuffers will be provided -- you won’t be going home empty handed.

There is a raffle for a “test pressing” of our new album. This vinyl record comes in it’s own custom wood box. Someone is going home with it on Saturday.

If this event were a food group, it would be granola -- we are adding new ingredients to daily to make it sweet but crunchy. We are literally building everything from the ground up:

This is the floor plan:

This is what we will fill it with:

Here, you can see that Dareck has converted his girlfriends armoire wardrobe into a display table for the records and books:

Once I tried to turn a display box into an armoire, but it didn’t turn out as well:

Dareck has assembled sheet metal into a specialized camera adapter:

As such, we will be filming the events of the night in 3D. For real. The evening will be documented by Val, from RedCat Film.

We will be integrating the release of recorded and published work from LNOYL (Vinyl LP, CD and Graphic Novella) together with a musical performance. We will perform an “unplugged” set as a trio. It will be recorded live, and if you leave us your email addy, you’ll be sent a link to download the Live EP produced from the performance.

Our first performance will be an introduction to the mind. No, you can’t smoke it. Instead of an opening band, we’ve got Josh Grant. He’s the guy that showed the effects of Zen Meditation on pain perception.

He says:

“Our experience of the world around us is the only way we know that we exist. In other words, if you were not able to ‘experience’ there wouldn’t be much of a ‘you’ to talk about. At the same time, the reality that we experience as ‘normal’ day to day is anything but stable, being easily manipulated by things like drugs, mood disorders, diet and certainly music. Yet we know practically nothing about why or how experiences arise in our minds and brains. As technology and knowledge advance we are beginning to scratch the surface of how the mind and brain interact. I’ll talk about (and demonstrate) several scientific paradigms, such as the rubber hand illusion, which will clearly reveal how our experiences, which we normally consider very stable and accurate, are actually very fragile and malleable.”

This is the video box. It’s in development, and a secret. Show up to figure out what it does.

First shipment of Graphic Novella’s arrived yesterday:

Dareck just finished the dimension glasses. You spin the record, then put them on. Sort of along the lines of this: http://whatisupright.livejournal.com/

Scratch your name on the fence to finish this piece. We’ll use it in an upcoming release

I play with this thing live -- an expression pedal. M-audio has constructed the picture perfect definition of “planned obsolescence” in creating their “M-Audio EX-P Expression Pedal”. It broke for the 4rth time yesterday. Using the lid of a “Rudolf the red nose reindeer, abominable snow man” coacoa lid, and a dremel tool, Dareck forever fixed the weak spot of this pedal, by making this metal brace. M-Audio decided that the most important moving part of this pedal should be make out of the flimsiest, lightest, cheapest plastic ever. We’ll see how it works through our rehearsal tonight…

Rehearsals…

See you there,

Kris, Dareck, Kirk