Glad to be here. Climate seems a lot more sunny. Took a quick
look at the archive--before it has had a chance to grow to 16,547
messages... I tried to open that server for Teamtalk, but that was
perhaps not the right thing to do, for my system said that
"internet Explorer cannot open this server" or some such thing.
Anyway, just came home from choir practice. We're getting ready for
Christmas and are doing Carols, some in tricky arrangements. One
of them is "Deck the Hall" arranged by David Wilcox in a fugue-like
counterpoint. I've almost gotten two thirds of it--no recording of
that, though, anywhere on the net.
I'm also working on a presentation of "rounds, catches, and glees".
That will be presented by me, and I'll have ten or so singers to
help me demonstrate the various types of rounds, and we'll have
some easy ones for audience participation. Preparing audio files
and collecting sheet music, and making copies, and burning
CD's for that has been pretty intense. I've been recording the
parts separately and together, so people can learn on their own as
well as during our rehearsals. We have until Nov 7 to get it ready to perform.
Then, there's always the weekly radio show. For a while, I've been
taking it easy and aired a series I found on the net--Doctor Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde. Great adaptation by Betty Robertson, and she's turned
that short story into 53 15-minute episodes. It's saved my life
since I got back from vacation. All I've had to do is use a bit of
EQ to fix some fuzzy passages (vintage sound files, you know), some
normalization or volume fixes by hand, edit out all these intro and
outtros between the episodes and make one hour-long one for each Sunday night.
Rob, my partner, also does his own Sunday night show, so we have
had to turn our sitting-room into a part studio for him, so we
don't get in each other's hair.
That's more than you wanted to hear from me, but cheers, and
looking forward to a fun-filled cruise. Maybe I'll finally get up
the nerve and submit something--I've actually composed an
adaptation of "Six Days on the Road" based on our traumatic vehicle
almost breakdown at several stages during our trip home from music
camp this August...
Grin,
Gudrun
At 09:02 PM 10/5/2009, you wrote:
The most graceous and sweet natured and creative lady Gudrun has
just climbed aboard.
Welcome my dear.
We've got some nice goodies here like web archives, and a voice
chat server that we're working on, it's up and running now but
we're not through with it yet.
It's a teamtalk server and the host name is
realmusicians.slyip.com
pw is
cattail
You can get the software over at
http://www.bearware.dk/index.php?pageid=teamtalk
I'm going to compile all this useful info in to the welcome
message soon, we've only been up a couple days so hang tight,
we'll have fun and resurrect the old spirit of love and acceptance
which used to be over at you know where 'grin'.
I think Ross mcgregor will come over here, and I just invited DJX,
we'll see what happens.
Enjoy and I know your over there probably doing 10 things at once 'grin'.
The printers came today and left Julie's inserts, wow you know
what those guys did?
they gave us more inserts and cut the price in half.
Image maker is truly a great company to work with here to do
printing, they don't have cd printing yet, I been bugging them
about that, but they do very nice inserts and anything else, and
they make it easy for blind folks, knotching corners and such and
hand deliver stuff.
There a christian run company, they're actually the print shot for
St. Francis Hospital I believe, but they do out of shop stuff too.
They're pricing and service is just so good, I almost just don't
mind not having the direct on cd printing, but I'd like to find a
good option for that at some point, thermal printing seems to be
the cheapest and most practical but you know, it's the whole
sighted thing, we'll eat that elephant when the demand gets great
enough, but so far, so good.
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