The Mae Shi at the Pink Mailbox
Elia Vargas
Revisit, revisit, replay (I have indeed already mentioned PRE)-
On March 25th, at the Pink Mailbox in Isla Vista, SBDIY hosted a show of the old school and a bit of the new school. Fresh out of this year's South by Southwest, The Mae Shi (San Diego) headlined over Pre (England), and the legendary Homosexuals. I used to live at the Pink Mailbox and SBDIY is filled to the brim with good people, and so One Night Music had a sort of experiment with filming in non-controlled settings. Its not quite a One Night Music session, but we brought it right to your face. Here is a small sample, the show was nuts.
Watch the last song on the video, it is worth it…
Here's the digits:
Pre at the Pink Mailbox, March 25
Elia Vargas
They said they were from Australia. Those liars. Those sweet, sweet demon-noise liars. They are called Pre, and they are from London. Fresh off, or particularly wound up, after South by Southwest the loud noise made its way out West, and on March 25, particularly to Isla Vista. They came along with The Mai Shi, and it just so happened that The Homosexuals were around too. It was a show. The Pink Mailbox was white noise and dark noise-pop. I posted up in the mush, and my toes tap tap tapped there way around.
Continue reading for more videos from the show.
One Night Music Continues in Santa Barbara
Ryan Andersen
In one week from today, I will pack my belongings into the back of my brother’s pickup truck and leave Santa Barbara for Paradise. Paradise, CA that is – a town located 8 miles from Chico, CA (about 1.5 hours directly north of Sacramento). There I will spend the summer and fall in a small cabin. My hope is to cultivate my own music and spiritual growth within the context of solitude. I am also excited to start an awesome garden, ride my bike, read, and build a community of friends. After my stay in Paradise, I intend to move to the Bay Area to be near my father, brother, sister, and girlfriend.
Recording the Music of Mike Conway and Adam Bianchi
Ryan Andersen
Three of my favorite people in my life packed together in a car to drive from San Francisco to Santa Barbara for the One Night Music Valentine’s Day Launch Party on Saturday, February 14th, 2009. Needless to say that when my brother tried to coax me to the park with him and my great friend Mike Ballan and my girlfriend Ildiko that evening for a glass of wine and a round of bocce ball, I couldn’t say no. We walked to the park together laughing, smiling, and talking about the activities yet to transpire for the evening. At the park we shared a toast and began a game. It was amid this air of friendship that I interrupted them: “I have to get home to set up.” It was time for business, not fun and games.
Setting up for a One Night Music session is not something to be taken lightly. Sure there are easier sessions than others to produce. A single singer songwriter is going to be easier to set up and record than a guitar, two vocals, a Wurlitzer, and a drum kit in my tiny bedroom studio. The only predictable factor in this comparison, however, is the amount of time each will take to set up. The latter will take longer, obviously.
However, most of the other factors for each session are completely unique to the individual session. Each session has its own character and intricacies that must be addressed anew, without precondition to how it should be approached. It’s in this mindset that I feel each One Night Music session will be produced with the integrity that each individual artist’s music deserves.
One Night Music Celebrates Two Months of Local Santa Barbara Music
Ryan Andersen
One Night Music celebrates its two-month birthday this week! We’ve now recorded the music of 24 artists, a number far beyond what we originally thought we would achieve by this point in time. The reason for this number is a result of the great interest in One Night Music from the community and the efforts of Megan Sullivan and Elia Vargas in booking the artists.
The reason that only 8 sessions are currently on the website, when we have so many recorded, is because of the amount of time that post production for each session takes. Each session takes approximately 15 to 20 hours of combined work in postproduction. Given that everybody involved in One Night Music is a volunteer, this means that we are only able to launch new sessions every two weeks. However, we are going to start to try to launch sessions every week, seeing that we are refining our postproduction processes to be more efficient.
Since we launched the website, there have been several new developments with One Night Music. First, two new Contributors have joined the team of Ian Andersen, Molly Hahn, Elia Vargas, Laura Birhsan, and Megan Sullivan. Karen Nedivi is now filming and illustrating for us and Candice Davantzis is writing for us. It’s only with the help of One Night Music’s contributors that we are able to sustain this project, so I send a very grateful welcome to both of them.
New Music in Santa Barbara - One Night Music Launch Party
Ian Andersen
The Valentine's Day One Night Music launch party is happening right now with about 25 of our friends at our studio in Santa Barbara, a new music venue where we've been recording local artists for the past two months.
To help launch One Night Music and make the night one to remember, we've invited Michael Conway and Adam Bianchi to record live sessions in front of our friends for an intimate living room concert. These will be the first two sessions recorded outside of the normal studio and in front of a larger audience, something that we are looking forward to doing more often.
Right now Adam Bianchi is wrapping up his set of four songs. Here's a short preview of the session recorded a few minutes ago. We'll have the full, high quality session up in about two weeks.
Michael Conway at the One Night Music Launch Party
Megan Sullivan
Mike Conway, featuring cellist Betsy Wise, just kicked off our One Night Music launch party with some stunningly beautiful songs. Here is a clip of Michael performing tonight. The full set will be posted in high quality audio and video to our website in about two weeks.
New Live Music Venue in Santa Barbara Comes to Life
Ryan Andersen
One Night Music is live. What a glorious moment. Initially a simple concept as a way for me to manifest my passion for music production, One Night Music has turned into a project that now boasts six amazingly talented contributors. We are a team of artists defining a new type of music venue.
One Night Music is a space that provides musicians the chance to record high quality audio and video sessions of their work for free—an opportunity that they may not otherwise have. These recordings are then made available to a vast audience through our website. The media revolution of the internet combined with the relative ease of recording high quality audio and video was bound to eventually capture music and take it for an exciting ride. Well, this is what it looks like.
My visions for where One Night Music can go are grand. I envision a new kind of music community, one that harbors the talents of contributors who record, film, illustrate, photograph, and book artists not because they are looking for money, but because they thrive off of the concept of creating this new space; of creating opportunity where it might not otherwise exist. Sure, this opportunity is fabricated in providing musicians the chance to get quality recordings and publicize their work for free using our resources, but it also fabricates itself in the ability it provides music enthusiasts to find new music that they may not otherwise find.
One Night Music’s First Session
Ryan Andersen
We are proud to announce that Santa Barbara singer songwriter Meghan Lehman will be joining us for our first One Night Music session. Meghan will share her talents with us on Saturday December 6th. She will be accompanied simply by her guitar. You can hear Meghan’s music at http://www.myspace.com/meghanlehman. We also have a new member on the One Night Music team. Elia Vargas, who has just returned from a long journey in South America will be filming the live set! We have contemplated the addition of video to this project, but would have never dreamed that our first set would be filmed. Elia just happened to be back in Santa Barbara at the right time.
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