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today’s “enjoy the silence” webcast is about to begin (Patreon)

Published:
2022-01-25 22:11:31
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2026-06

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HALLO LOVES

greetings from roundhewd studio, day 2, in auckland. 

WE ARE ABOUT TO GO LIVE FOR DAY 2!! there's already about 300 people heading in!!! come come come: 

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/eaywgp19

YAY

if you missed the memo, the cast yesterday was WONDERFUL (you can watch the replay here, but not NOW, for god's sake!) and the upshot is that we decided i would do a cover recording, today in realtime for the webcast, of depeche mode's "enjoy the silence".

so i've been practicing my little tuckus off last night and this morning and i'm READY. 

here's me at lucy lawless's living room piano, practicing my ass off this morning at 7:45...don't say i don't fuckin work hard for the money betches



the cast will begin at 11:11 sharp and i'kll have a meeting with the engineers and before you know it, i'll be at that piano, banging it out, doing takes, making magic in the studio while ytou watch live, for the first time. I CANNOT WAIT. this is usually such an intimate space for me, but helll.....i'm ready. come watch me do bad vocal takes, one after another! watch me make mistake after mistake on the piano!!! COME SEE ME BE FLAWED. 

it's a process. this is music. this is art. i want you to understand how it all works. 

the whole recording should take about 2-3 hours, and if we are lucky you'll get to watch us in the control room as we work on the final mix of the song. it's a really amazing thing to watch if you've never seen anything like this. so.....pop in! pop out! cook food! use the chat!

i was so giddy after our webcast yesterday that i hit a vintage shop next to the studio and bought a pretty dress and a new imono for the webcast today. THERE WILL BE AN INTERMISSION, AND AN OUTFIT CHANGE before i do vocals.


the plan today is that we'll kick off in a few moments, i'll have 

this comment made me really happy, by the way. 

it's TRUE.

the comments and the community conversation - and connections - in and through the chat have just been getting better and better over the years and webcasts. i love watching you guys meeting and learning and loving each other. keep that going. don't be afraid. there's nothing to lsoe here. we're a community. if you wanna say something, reach out, empathize, suggest....help.....just do it.

love all the people, as bill hicks wisely said.

see you in a couple minutes.


xx

a



Comments

Ragamonster

ooooooooh this song! it might kill me! <3

Nikki

The last couple days have been amazing to see. I have to admit that I'm more than a little bummed that we'll miss out on the mixing. Thank you so much for sharing this with us Amanda! Really looking forward to hearing how the cover turns out after hearing the pieces slowly come together!

Kimerly Hurley

Thank you thank you thank you from California. Love you love you love you. Needed this today! Just amazing and soothing to the soul.

Stefanie Oepen

Love seeing you work and talking us through things. <3 Watched the replay of the first one yesterday, because I fell asleep during it. Same happened with this one - I lasted 30 minutes this time. Will go and enjoy the replay now. :D I have to be up between 6 and 7 to go to work so sadly it is impossible for me to watch these live on a weekday.

Kathryn Drew

Wow, I want to share with you just quite how amazing this was to see. I watched live: a few hours of the arranging day, and 2 hours of laying down the piano tracks, and then after a big rest during which I laid down in silence and darkness for two hours and then went to the beach and played this song on my wooden bass flute which is in the key of b flat minor, I caught the very last live half hour of mixing. When I logged on the first day and you were just beginning to figure out the piano arrangement, and then talked about the meaning of the song - this has so much actual literal meaning for me. In the past year due to chronic illness there has been so much time where my cognitive function has been so poor, and sound sensitivity so intense, that listening to words and the act of comprehending speech is literally painful, and the majority of my time I have needed to be alone and/or only able to manage a few minutes of conversation and very little reading or writing or texting or even listening to music (maybe one song a day). I couldn't really watch your casts because you talked so much that it hurt, I've found myself unable to get out of conversations with people when I needed to when it was actually physically hurting my brain, and that would lead to headaches and insomnia, and ongoing exhaustion to the point of needing to lay in silence and darkness for many hours of the day just to survive. I even wrote a song (on the ukulele, only two chords!) about flowers and the way they speak to me silently with their beauty, that you can hear them too if you sit quietly with them, and in the song I ask "can you speak to me silently? can you speak without even making a sound?" because I was really so sad and so hurt about how hard it was to be with humans without them talking and making noise and making my brain hurt.... and then in the song I go on to explain that most of what we say to each other as humans IS communicated silently (which is so true, and beyond feelings, so much of it is even subconscious, it's in our body language and deep in our nervous systems - the words we speak are just the teeniest part of our communication, when *in person* together) and my song also spoke of the way words confuse and abuse me ("words like violence break the silence" is often exactly how it feels for me, even if they are 'nice' words). I think I actually mentioned to you that I was writing a ukulele song when Good Habits were staying down here at Steve's 'The Sandcastle' during lockdown but I was too ill to actually hang out - you replied to keep making music - and this was the song. And yesterday when I logged on to your cast and found you explaining the Enjoy The Silence meaning and showing your process of figuring out the piano arrangement, I cried at the utter perfection of the moment and the meaning... So, to not only be able to have the capacity to watch your stream for 2 hours, 2 days running (I still could Not have lasted for two hours of straight talking) but also to hear this song and this lyrical meaning expressed, so very related to my own recent and ongoing very deep personal experience of actual physical pain and exhaustion from the act of hearing sound and cognising words, and to get to join live in this process with you, the curiosity and excitement of witnessing the whole process, has made me so unbelievably happy on so many levels. Thank you for being so raw and real and intimate and vulnerable with us. Thank you for your beauty and wisdom. Thank you for covering the perfect song for me. And, please do, enjoy the silence. I love you. thank you, you are so fantastic, thanks for being exactly who you are xxx

Eva Ozean

the dress is freakin' awesome, what a catch! and the kimono has your name on it, thought you owned it since ages.

Lindeee59

I adore watching you play piano...I'm working hard at playing chords and not so much sheet music.