Oregon Art Beat; #205; Coast Lab Band

What does it matter? It's a place different. Like, do you want to go together? Yeah. Okay. What was it? Tell me your names. I'm Mariah Dordey. And I'm Ansel Bennett. Okay. And once you just tell me why you guys, you know, give up your Wednesday nights to come down here and play with the band. Well, I actually heard about it from a friend of mine and said it was a lot of fun. And I'm thinking, you know, that could be so kind of fun. And that was about a year and a half ago. So I just love it because, I mean, everybody, you know, it doesn't matter how good you are or whatever. You probably saw the day on the camera. If you, if someone got lost or something, you would see about five different hands, point the music. And that, that's what kept me coming because I came and I really didn't know much about the sax, because it wasn't really my first instrument. So I came and everybody helps me. So it was really great. And I, you know, I just love that spirit type of thing. Let's go on. How about you? How do you have? I come both. Well, I recently made Senior Laban. And so I've been coming to

both junior and beginning because I helped the younger kids because I know it was like, walk in and be totally scared out of your mind. I play a trap set and I've only played it in the band for a year. And it's really different playing it in a band than by yourself up in your room, because you can hear other people. Do you guys hope to continue on with your music? What do you think you'll do? I don't know. I want to play music in college, but I don't, you know, it's probably not going to be a major, but you know, maybe a minor for me. I'm thinking about possibly becoming a band teacher, high school or elementary, but I'm not sure yet. Great. Anything else, what's your favorite part about? Well, it's just for me, it's that we have so many opportunities because I played and began in junior, then Greg let me sit in with Senior, and then I was in Senior. And now Greg's giving me an opportunity to help the younger kids by directing, and that is something that I really, really enjoy and love. And Greg just gives us so many opportunities that, you know, I feel

I'm a better person because of it. It's such a positive environment here. I mean, you really feel like it's one big family. I mean, it's not just a band. If you have problems outside of this place, such as school or family problems, you can come here and anybody or listen to Greg's wonderful about that. It's great. Yeah. Great, you guys, thank you very much. Sure. So now you guys are all, and are you in the senior band, right? Is that right? Me and Matt. Or me too. You guys are in the beginning, the beginning band. Okay. Why don't you, why don't we start with you too? Um, why don't you just tell me your names? I'm Amy, and I started like a year and a half ago. Oh, I'm Matt, and I play the drums. I started about the same time as her. What made you, what, how did you choose the bass to play? Um, because my dad

plays bass, and when I was little, I'd, um, he'd be practicing in the living room, and I'd pick it up, and I'd start playing, and he'd teach me something. So I wanted to be like this. What's your favorite part about being a little Batman? Um, is that what I agree? I think it's what they teach us, that, you know, about passing it on. I think that's my favorite part. How about you? Why do you come here? Well, my brother, he played the drums when I was about four or five, and he always used to let me go in there, and beat around on him. And... What? I know he's dumb. I'm clumsy. And I just always let to go in there, and beat around, so playing the drums. What's your favorite thing about performing? Probably, just the... I'd say the knowledge, also, you know, that we get passed on, and that we pass on to other students. Do you think it builds your... makes you feel more confident, and makes you feel good about

yourself? Yeah. Do you think you'd do better in school, or how do you think it affects your work at school? Um, it makes me want to work harder, because like, I used to think I wasn't needed, but I know I am needed here, because there's like, not very many bass players, so... Okay, now we'll talk to you guys. Yeah. So you're... You guys are in the beginning, yeah. How long have you been? I've been playing about a year. Yeah, I've been playing about, maybe four, five months. How did you guys feel the first time when you came into this room, and met everyone? Um, it felt kind of important to be with everybody, and sort of feel like, in the crowd, and stuff. I was kind of shy, you know, felt like I was really embarrassed, because I was afraid I might mess up, or something, and somebody might make fun of me. But once you walk through the door, it's like an equal. I mean, you know, it's pretty awesome. You feel equal, and everybody's... everybody likes you. Yeah.

Do you guys... What's your favorite thing about performing in front of an audience? Sometimes they get into it. I like it when they like dance and stuff, it's more fun when you get into it instead. I like it because, you know, people get into it, and then it makes you want to start dancing and once you have fun, then the audience has fun. Hey, great you guys. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

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not plugged up later when we're blowing the grid, so I have to wait a while for it to cool down before I gather over it so that it won't drip off. What do you have to let it cool when you put the collar on, that means that you're feedback? Well, you have to let it cool so it's not moving anymore, so when I put it back into the furnace to gather more glass, unless it's on there, it's not going to like just drip off into the furnace because it's so hot. So that's pretty cool, so I can gather over it now. So I'm going to marinate this a little bit so you can actually shape it and pick up the

color I want. Because I'm all going to work with it. What's all this? Those are called pieces of print, which is just crushed up, shaped glass, or other kinds of glass. There's different sizes of print, so this is about a medium size. I'm going to roll the print on the bar, and I'm going to smooth it out and work it into the piece. I'm going to roll it out. I'm going to roll it out. Well, I'm going to

heat it up until it's nice and hot and smooth, really easy. And then I'm going to go over the bench, and I think this shares a little twist in it. And that swirls the color around and also creates a texture when the piece is blown out. That's me hot enough to move to work with, and it pulls down so fast that it's only a certain amount of work going on. I'm not even doing this. I've been doing this about eight years. Mine is dark. Oh, because I had to. I couldn't not do it.

It's my passion. So this tool that I'm using here is called a block, and it's used to make the shape nice and round. And it's made of green wood, and the reason it doesn't burn is obviously because it's soaked in water. And it has a layer of charcoal built around that part that touches the glass. There's a block that bubbles again so I can start blowing out the whole piece on the bench. We'll slowly.

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blob of clear glass that's plugging the hole. So it'll actually float and then we just pull it and flatten it at the same time with the metal tool. And we stick it in the annealer, which is it's going to like a gel that's set it about 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. And what it does is we're working the glass in 2000 degrees. So if it was going to go right down the room temperature as fast as it would just sit now it would explode. It would have all the thermal shock and thermal stress. So we put it in the annealer and it stays about a thousand so we turn it off. And then it'll slowly cool down overnight to room temperature and it takes about 10 to 12 hours. How many does it give you a day? We generally do 18 to 36, which means like we can fit 18 each one of our two annealers. So it depends on how many orders your clothes would have that day. So you get orders. We always talk about

our stores of course and then we solve all sorts of different galleries of anneal and clothes. So if you talk about anything. Just different glass blurs. And I learned a lot on my own to just do a lot of it from experience. So like you're going to glass for the best or the best. No glass blurs are pretty simple. And I've done so many of them. It's like... Oh sorry. Yeah that's one of the examples of glass pulling down quickly. But yeah anyway I really like doing doglets right now. Because it's more of a challenge and getting more into more intricate pieces and stuff. What kind of things do you have to do today? What do you want to come up with? Oh I love some different things. But the heat's the way it moves, the way that I can work with it to create

something. And I also think of it as, you know, I'm usually listening to music when I'm doing it. I really love music. I kind of think of it as dancing with the glass because I'm always moving. And the glass is moving with me. Any else? I don't know where I'm going to go but I'm going there. There's so many things that I want to do and I have lots of time to do it with. I just kind of want to bring what's in me out and express it in the glass. Alright. Let's see. You

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