katamari – Kai Strandskov Music https://kaistrandskov.com Another musician on the Internets Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:13:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 61957399 Gamer jam https://kaistrandskov.com/2013/03/gamer-jam/ Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:06:53 +0000 http://kaistrandskov.com/?p=388 Continue reading "Gamer jam"

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]]> My pal Sean Downey has set up a monthly Gamer Jam, where a live band plays the soundtrack to video games as people play them on a huge screen. There are also homemade games, and songs inspired by games, and some gamers like Louis who show their mad skills in games like Mega Man. I got to play in the “house band” last time, and took some major risks. Apart from learning all the music for Street Fighter 2 (including Thailand in 11/8), I organized the band to play two songs off of Katamari. Susan played the levels live! It was so awesome! But scary, because I had never performed as lead vocalist before. I really took advantage of the 80/20 rule to prepare, because there was so little time! But the other musicians, Steve, Louis, and Sean, totally pulled together and made the whole thing work! And of course, none of it would have worked without Susan on game controller. So here’s my first attempt at leading a band. Please be gentle. ;)

The next Gamer Jam is coming up on April 4th at the MIX in Georgetown (Seattle). I hope you can make it out! Come over and say hi.

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