Re: Orycon filking redux

replyOn Tue, 19 Nov 1996 j.bunnell at genie.com wrote:
> On having two rooms/circles: this seems to me to have been a major
> net gain over the "one room, badly oversized bardic circle" problem
> from last year.

        Hear, hear on that one. After the 4.5 hour revolution, things kind of got hairy.  

> (We also apparently stuck Cecilia as sole guitarist in some of the
> bardics for longer than we should have, although I have this partly at
> second hand.)

        This wouldn't surprise me. That was probably Friday night. The one time I looked into the bardic room she was the only person with instrument at the time.

reply> Chaos circles: also worked quite well, as far as I could tell. I don't
> know that I saw a lot of the "beware" phenomenon; what there was of it
> is likely an artifact of chaos being relatively new in the Northwest,
> so we simply aren't as used to it. Certainly it didn't seem to get in
> the way of people offering up material.

reply        I think it went well in chaos. I just didn't like people telling newbies that chaos filks were evil things where filk hogs ruled the room and woe be it unto you to get a turn in a chaos filk. We're not monsters.  

reply> Mini-concerts: best we've had in several years, I think, especially as
> there was a good balance between people we've heard often before (Roy
> and Joan, Cecilia) and those who haven't done them here before (Jeff,
> Cat/Eglantine).

reply        I think it went great. I enjoyed myself immensely! :) I hated going up against a filk circle, though.

reply> The delay problem was, of course, an artifact of Variety
> Show overrun; this may be alleviated next year as I understand next
> Orycon will return to a traditional Masquerade.

reply        HA HA HA HA! [Commander Claus falls to the floor in a fit of laughing. He picks himself up, brushes himself off, and continues.] Take it from a person who has done a few masquerades by now. They have more of a chance of overrunning than a variety show. Last Norwes, the masquerade was 45 late in starting, and the judges took 20 minutes longer than the allotted time for judging.  

> Concerts as program slots: it wasn't necessarily apparent from the program
> information, but there *were* several performance-oriented daytime music
> events--not concerts, but a "jam session", an unusual-instrument session,
> and a filk program aimed at kids (though I doubt they'd have tossed adult
> kids out <g>). Beyond this--yup, available space again.

reply        We need more jam sessions. That was a great panel! The kids panel was.....interesting.  

> Filk con: I think the Northwest is indeed close to critical mass in
> terms of support for one of these. And I agree that OSFCI is the
> logical parent to it, although I wonder if performer-geography might not
> make Seattle a more logical physical venue.

reply        Well, it'd be easier for me to get to, that's for sure. :)

Jeff Received on 11/19/96