Subject: Re: Wandering didj
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 3:06 PM

Drin asked :

>OK, so for those of us who appear to have missed the current status of the WD -
>Has it already begun its journey, or are things still in the planning stages?

I'm sitting here in Tasmania (south of mainland Australia) going wild wating for this baby to arrive - I believe Guan sent it last Friday, so it should be here by now. Perhaps today ???

So the journey starts at wandering didj's southern extereme.

Dave.

Yep, I raced home at lunch time cause I thought she would have to be here today

- and the journey begins
- my all too brief journey with this didj.
I spent 10 minutes playing her at lunch time, and it was all new territory for me ! This is a very responsive and lively instrument. She lips smoothlyand effortlessly between drone and up to 3 overtones - this is a real challeng to harness this versatility. The drone is bright, and because of this will be coloured alot by the space people choose to play in - get those cogs whirring for those magical acoustic spots.

It is a solid instrument, and well selected for the project - the versatility will mean a great diversity of styles will be able to comethrough.

Well done Guan!

Dave.

Well, after an incredibly badly timed glut of work, I finally got to sit down with wandering didj and a microphone - I would have loved to have more time to do it real justice, but I guess it's part of the nature of the project. I have 2 tracks in entirely different styles, and as yet am not sure which one to use.

SO, my question now is what to send on ? I have bought the journal - while there were some great hand made paper books etc that would have been great, I decided it would be good to have one that can roll up and fit inside the didj case. It is recycled paper with a marbled cover. I will leave the front page blank for someone with more artistic inclination than myself.

There was talk of sending on a copy of each recorded track. Is this really a good idea ?? I thought the idea was to see what people come up with from this instrument, totally independantly. I would suggest that maybe hearing other peoples tracks would influence people and we may not end up with as diverse collection as we would have otherwise - just a thought.

Was there anything else I was supposed to send on ??

Dave.

Chris has finished with the didj and it's on its way to Peter. Chris' recording is winging it's way towards me, where I will burn both his andmine to CD and send them on to David Blonski . My confession is that the journal is still with me !! (sorry guys-followed by a barage of excuses that no one wants to hear). I will finish my bit over the weekend and send it on to Chris on Monday. It is obviously important that the journal catches up with the didj before they leave Australia.

Will post an edited RealAudio clip of my submission on my website soon (will announce the URL once it is there).

Dave.

Peter Lister wrote:
>It's loud, so I need to fiddle with things a bit before I do my recording to ensure there is no distortion in >my final recording.

Everyone in the project take note of what Peter says here: My submission was recorded in a bit of a rush just because of my work schedule around the time the didj was here, and as a result there are a few peaks in the recording that I am now kicking myself for, and sound more obvious every time I listen !! I may have taken the 'no outboard gear/effects' directive a bit too seriously in removing my pre-tape (er.... disk actually) limiter.

Learn from my mistakes !

Dave
Blowin' with the roaring 40's

G'day all

It was a relief to finally get time to sit down and do my wandering didj journal write up. Hopefully now the journal can catch up with the didj before they leave Australia. The journal is soft covered so it can wrap
around the thinest point of the didj and hopefuly still fit in the didj case. There are plenty of pages for everyone ! - I'm afraid my entry turned into a bit of an essay, but I hope it is info that people find
interesting/informative.

I left a page for any artistic types to do a colourful first page - not really my tallent.
Dave.