MarshWorks

I sent out about 30 emails so far mentioning my YouTube video, and the response has been very positive but also shows some interesting viral distribution... I got 100 views in the first two days. My goal is 1000 views, which will mean that quite a few more people than everyone I know will have seen it. And it already led to a media interview (Actually an venue director for an upcoming concert forwarded the link to the local paper).

Gus Thomson at the Auburn Journal gave a pretty good description of what I'm doing:

NEW AND OLD

“Some Like It Hot” is the classic movie being shown at the State Theater this coming Thursday but the opening act – violin player Jason Marsh should provide some heat of his own when he plays live before the Billy Wilder comedy lights up the screen.

Marsh will be combining high-tech know-how and old-fashioned musical smarts in the theater atrium during a pre-movie celebration from 5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. The movie starts at 7 p.m.

... Marsh plans to provide a multi-faceted musical performance that will see him turning on and off sound loops he creates as he plays – essentially backing himself with his own instrument. The fiddle itself is a classic – a century old violin probably made in Germany – but the score will be pure 21st century computer magic. Marsh, a Christian Valley resident and Berklee College of Music degree holder, switched from the life of a pro jazz player to Apple employee in the early 1990s. Marsh, who now is guiding a startup working on software for hospitals, will be melding sounds as diverse as Stephane Grappelli and Jimi Hendrix into some atmospheric soundscapes.

Thanks Gus!