From f5f793124fe7ae9950b0fd9457374946b3b6c294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rekado Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:05:17 +0800 Subject: use Hakyll instead of middleman --- posts/2010-07-14-one-night-in-beijing.markdown | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/2010-07-14-one-night-in-beijing.markdown (limited to 'posts/2010-07-14-one-night-in-beijing.markdown') diff --git a/posts/2010-07-14-one-night-in-beijing.markdown b/posts/2010-07-14-one-night-in-beijing.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64535c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2010-07-14-one-night-in-beijing.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +--- +title: One Night In Beijing +date: 2010/07/14 +tags: music, youku, video, show +--- + +When I noticed that the online voting system for the big Niuren 2010 event was +not to be trusted, I was pretty convinced not be one of those chosen to perform +on stage in Bejing. In order to be sure, I wrote a message to my friend at +Youku. Some hours later I was informed that disregarding the number of the +votes (which did turn out to be comparatively high in the end) I was supposed +to be invited to give a performance on the Stick. After all formal issues were +agreed upon, I prepared to leave for Beijing on Sunday morning with the Chapman +Stick in tow. + +When I arrived at the venue I was surprised to find the stage to be a lot +larger than I anticipated. + +The stage in Beijing + +When it was time for my soundcheck the clouds had formed a dark opaque blanket +across the unattractive skies of Beijing and at times rain drops mixed with the +soil on the vast meadow to form squishy mud. The crew seemed to marvel at the +impression of hearing two instruments' sounds, each articulated by one +individual hand on its own set of strings but on one instrument. + +At about ten o᾿clock in the evening, the show began. It only lasted for +about 15 minutes as the occasional rain proceeded to grow into drowning +vertical streams of water. The stage was lacking any sort of rain protection +and it didn᾿t take long until the stage lights went off as the cables +were drenched. + +The show was eventually cancelled which only made sense considering that most +of the mud-dwellers in front of the stage had given up their hopes for better +weather and had left the premises in shoals. + +Disappointed we returned to the hotel. When finally everybody had returned we +discussed with the organizers how to proceed, how to salvage the investment. At +first the idea was going around to stage the event on Monday evening, without +an audience, just recording and pretending it all happened the day before. This +idea was soon discarded, though, when the organizers learned that most of had +would be flying back home on Monday morning. A compromises was found when the +decision was made to record individual performances—or rather very pale +and primitive versions of what was originally planned—in the lobby of the +hotel. + +![Recording video clips in the hotel lobby at 2am](/images/posts/niuren2010_beijing_lobby.jpg) + +These clips—all of which were recorded between two and three +a.m.—are supposed to serve as teasers for the actual show which has now +been postponed to some time in August or September. I will add the links to +those video clips in the next few days, provided I can find them. A new entry +will be posted once the date for the postponed show in Beijing has been +confirmed. + +**Update (July 29):*** The short video clip has been uploaded. You can [watch +it on youku](http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTkzMzc1NDI4.html). + +**Update:*** Gao Ming interviewed the participants during the preparations of +the show. There is a 25+ minutes [video clip on +youku](http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTg5NzMwNDI4.html). At about 2:40 he comes +across the table where I am relaxing with other participants. -- cgit v1.2.3