Can you get more confused than Confuzzled KC

Involvement in Eminence

Many of my friends don't understand why I'm so heavily involved in Eminence. They see me put incredible hours and brain power into what they see as a stressful, unpaid waste of time, and even my dad feels the same, but I enjoy working with EO and working with the people in it. In the year that I've joined, I have done a lot, experienced a lot, and learnt a lot. Here is a ramble about my involvement so far.

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I joined EO around April/May 2006 after watching Piano Stories 3. Lucy was my ticket in, coz I know her from uni (we do composition together) and she was the MC at PSIII.

I started off as a crew member, doing (highly unorganised) poster and flyer runs under the 'supervision' of R.S (who basically turned up late every week to Kino and sat there whilst the rest of us ran around the city).

After experiencing the mass mayhem of ANIF06 and realising EO was lacking some basic things that concerts need (and I have done many concerts with my school at the Opera House and Sydney Town Hall so I know) e.g a runsheet for concerts, I believed I could bring something to the company if I worked my way up the ranks.

At the infamous heated ANIF06 debrief , I was assigned the title of assistant librarian with Lucy, because we both do music, and I also became a Team Leader for the Uni aged crew.

The teams idea was only recently abolished, and I was granted the new title of Crew Management Team with Steve and Cathy.

I helped Chris do some data input jobs, i.e putting survey data into electronic form, and Jona and I had a few laughs over the funny survey responses.

And thus PSIV and Passion went by (which btw for those who did not know, Passion was held on my birthday, so I spent my birthday working for EO *sigh*) I also got to go to Studio 301 for the recording of the Passion cd and met Mitsuda-san and Sakimoto-san there.

Many people don't know that there was a very small recording project done near the end of 2006 at Trackdown for some korean thing which used some of our musicians. I was called up the morning of by Hiro and asked to go and supervise.

Another thing that many don't know about, was that I was actually offered a scholarship by EO in January 07 to learn to do some copywriting/printing work with our 3 arranger/orchestrators, but I had to turn it down due to overcommitment.

I have done some work with Nicole Brady and Laura Bishop before, mostly to do with fixing scores and writing out harp pedal parts (Nat, if you ever get to see this, remember it was all for YOU!)

I was also involved in the PlayStation3 Media launch, which was when I first got to meet and work with Elaine and I began to do some orchestral management work with her. I also got called up at 1am the morning of by Hiro to do some last minute fixing of the scores to be played at the launch and was working until 3am with him on the phone.

The next big project was of course Romeo X Juliet where again, I did orchestral management work with Elaine. This involved going to Demetri's house and covering his garage floor with paper. Sakimoto-san came around to visit us as we were working and he even remembered me from Passion and now calls me Poon-chan ^^

And here we are at ANIF07:SGE. I was given the title of Assistant Orchestral Manager and spent another 2 full days at Demetri's house sorting music, went to all the rehearsals the week before, and got to Sydney Town Hall at 9am the morning of. Of course, I've neglected to talk about the poster rounds that I have been organising with Steve and Cathy the months before-hand, and writing a run sheet for Sydney and chasing up various departments about missing info (coz I like to know everything ^^).

And then I went down to Melbourne for ANIF07 and although Soon keeps saying I didn't do anything, I got the orchestra on the plane, on the bus, into their rooms at the UniLodge (all with the help of Danny) and then I also helped Elaine collect the music and pack up at the end of the concert.

So there is my involvement in a nutshell. Of course, it's been highly simplified coz I wouldn't want to bore you all with the nitty gritty details ^^
I may not be a famous musician known and loved by the public, but I'm one of the many staff who actively work to get things done in EO and I thoroughly enjoy it.

Labels: Eminence, involvement

posted by Confuzzled KC @ 10:05 PM