“Sometimes Things Get Boring”
This was the gentle advice that Mr. Hodgin gave the other intern and me after a three hour (or three year?) long session with a pianist. The pianist came in and recorded three songs, which were all eerie, atmospheric, soundscape kind of songs that followed classical music patterns and keys. It was the type of music you’d expect to hear in the background of a medieval role-playing video game.
Mr. Hodgin, who (like us interns), is a fan of hip hop, rock, and anything with some energy to it, revealed to us after the pianist left that he was bored out of his mind. But he sat us down and explained to us that this is part of his job. While the experience might have been dull to us, the pianist was loving it. So, as the engineer, Mr. Hodgin has to find a way to get as “into it” as the artist is. He warned us that sometimes this is a lot easier said than done, remembering how easily entertained we were by the youthful rapper from wednesday. 