"tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE @ Synesthesia": From mid-March to mid-June, 2000, my partner in grime, etta cetera, & I traveled 1st, briefly, in Malaysia, & 2nd, for most of the time, in Australia. During our stay in Melbourne we were initially hosted by composer/performer Warren Burt who introduced to many interesting creative people. Warren also arranged gigs for me that I wd've been unlikely to get on my own. One of these was at the Synesthesia CD store that specialized in more experimental musics. This was a strange uncert insofar as I was set-up behind the sales desk, there was a captive bird in the air-shaft to my left, & there were only 6 people in the audience who were seated uncomfortably. But, as is typical of me, I was trying something new &, thanks to Warren, I was using a pitch-to-MIDI converter for the 1st time - a device I've since found very useful. etta cetera was cooperative enough to shoot VHS footage of the gig (& I shot footage of a dancing puppet made available to me by other hosts, the "Autobarnies"). This was one of the last of the "Triple-S Variety Shows" that'd started in CacaNada in 1994. This edit is made of excerpts now linked together that were originally in my 8:24:43 movie of this trip called "Don't Walk Backwards". The entirety of that is on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: youtu.be/kODzM_2_bRM . The original uncert was much longer. - October 26, 2017 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
