I meet today with Warren 'Wiggy' Toal, who has worked with all the greats from Pink Floyd to Gordon Lightfoot. He's hopefully going to offer some advice as to how I should proceed as far as technical needs are concerned. My vision is to do some of the songs as kind of 'production numbers', where lights, multimedia visuals and effects are 'in sync' together, running off the same time-clock.
Warren has done a lot of this stuff for the artists he's worked with, so I'm looking forward to hearing his thoughts on creating a modular system that's easy to run myself.
Of course, there are many things to consider beyond these tech concerns (but these are one my mind today, so I will begin here). Still to be decided are the setlist, the stories, the physical set, and the show's name, among a myriad of details. I already have a booking agent willing to represent the show once it's all ready to go. So this summer I will be blogging regularly about my progress, so you can see me putting the show together in real time: from the germ of an idea that it is today to the fully realized production.
My hope is that it will be a show that will move people, entertain and introduce my music to new audiences. My motivation to do this comes from the enjoyment I get from crafting interpretations of other's work, and finding a way to make it work within the one-man-show paradigm. Also I like the idea of doing a show repeatedly until it really cooks, and then having the satisfaction of bringing that show to multiple audiences (in nice theatres). I know that I will learn a lot in this process which will enrich what I do as an original artist, from crafting stories to optimizing my gear and production sensibilities.
Plus I think it sounds like a lot of fun. So here we go...
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