Thanks John,
Best of luck
Gene
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 03:56:58 PM MST, John Wanat
<johnwanat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carolyn and others have shared some videos and audio clips of musical groups
who have managed to perform together even though they were physically apart.
I'd like to know if anyone in CES is willing to experiment in doing the same.
Carolyn and I think that if we can put together a performance or more this way,
there would be some nice benefits. First of all, we keep singing together.
Second, we can offer music to those in our audiences where we have their email
addresses. And third, if we get sophisticated enough, perhaps we could produce
a CES channel on Youtube for the duration of the corona season.
How do we do this? I certainly don't have all the answers, but with a little
help, we can get started. Last week I discovered that I had GarageBand on my
MacBook and began to play around with it. GarageBand is an application that
lets you lay down tracks of individual music and combine them. As I am
learning, you can also massage the individual parts a bit to get a more
professional sound.
A few days ago, I took a simple version of Wade in the Water and, using
GarageBand, recorded the bass, the tenor, and the soprano parts separately
using a built-in metronome to coordinate. Then I put them together and they
more or less matched up. This suggested that we could put voices together
though we be apart. I am attaching the MP3 version I produced so you can see
the result. Please don't judge it too harshly; it's just a proof of concept
recording.
Anyway, the next step is to put together voices from separate locations. I
would like to get at least one voice from each SATB group to use their iphone
(or android I think would also work) to record a video of the same song, sung
at the same pace, from the same score. Could I propose we use the
Star-Spangled Banner we pretty much have under our belt? Set a metronome at
100 and start from the "O say" in measure 5 in the score we sing from.
Ideally, we would individually sing to a track of the accompaniment, but for
now let's try singing from the score to the metronome pace.
You would record this as a video, but at this point the sound is more important
than our beautiful faces. In combining the voices, I will strip off the video
portion -- at least for now -- so that I can focus on the audio. Then email it
to me at: johnwanat@xxxxxxxxx I will try to put the voices together and
send you all the combined sound. Then, who knows what would happen. Ideally
we will be able to get the video back in the final product.
I am hoping that there are some in CES who have done something like this before
(Steven, Blair, Ken, Pat?). If so, please let me know. Anyway, if you are
interested, send me a video and I'll get started.
Hopefully,
John
