Duo Chronicles will be doing a short on-air performance on March 12th on Portland’s jazz station – KMHD.
The host of the show, Lynn Darroch, will join us for one of his “jazz stories” that he has prepared to accompany our piece “Common Ground.” We’ll also be performing another piece from our repertoire as a duo.
Tune in a 2PM on 89.1 or on the web at KMHD.fm
Duo Chronicles will be performing live at Brasserie Montmartre on March 18 from 8:30 – midnight. There’s no cover, so feel free to stop by for dinner or a drink and enjoy a chance to hear the project live.
On Friday, February 26th we’ll be playing a rare live Duo Chronicles performance at RiverPlace as part of the Portland Jazz Festival.
We’ll be playing selections from our videos, some new material, and maybe even a few standards thrown in here and there.
There’s no cover, so feel free to stop by for some dinner or a drink and enjoy some live jazz!
Friday, February 26th
8:00 PM
1510 SW Harbor Way
No Cover
On Friday, November 13th, Strange Love Live aired an episode featuring Duo Chronicles. They came over with bins of equipment, including multiple cameras, lighting, and even a Tricaster, creating a beautiful show including four performances and a short interview segment.
We’d like to thank the SLL team (including @camikaos, @drnormal, and @unclenate) for putting this together.
You can download the episode from Blip.tv or search for it on iTunes.
On December 19th, Clay and I will be volunteering on 30 Hour Day, a 30-hour telethon benefiting charities in Oregon, including the Oregon Food Bank, Toys for Tots, and Free Geek.
We haven’t set a specific time that we’ll be appearing yet, but keep an eye on the blog here at duochronicles.com -- we’ll post more information as we get it.
Happy Halloween from Duo Chronicles. What says Halloween better than subscribing to a podcast on iTunes?
We have an exciting technological development to announce today: Duo Chronicles videos will be available in iTunes in the podcast directory. That means you can subscribe in iTunes and have the newest videos downloaded for you automatically. We’re providing two different versions of the videos – one that is full HD and the other a 640×480 DVD quality version that is not only smaller to download, but also playable on portable devices like your iPod or iPhone.
For bandwidth reasons, only the last two or three videos will be available to download.
Here are the links to the iTunes store:
Experimenting with a new recording setup. In this picture, we’re doing the first tune that uses keyboard instead of piano. We also have a microphone setup for the piano and saxophone instead of using the built-in mics on the cameras. Moving up in the world…
Today we’re posting the video for week 5 of the Duo Chronicles project. We’ve had a great response from everyone that’s seen the project so far -- mostly the jazz community and fans around Portland. We’ve kept it small at the beginning, but as we start to move along in the project, we’re going to try to expand our audience and community beyond our Northwest stomping grounds. After all, part of the idea of having the project internet-based is that we aren’t tied to one specific locale.
So. as we go into week 5, if you have friends that are jazz fans, consider letting them know about our little project? As I write this we have 729 views of our videos on YouTube -- let’s see how long it takes to get to 1000. All of the videos we’ve posted so far are below.
Thanks for the support as we start to explore.
Looking forward to this project because it combines music and technology which are two interests of mine. John and I have talked about bringing in special guest musicians from the Portland area too, so look for that. Have plans to start recording the audio in higher fidelity. Although because a lot of audio/video is listened/watched online these days people are getting used to content being just “good enough”. For now though, the goal: one song a week, for a year, the Duo Chronicles.
