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Recording Project
We did twelve hours of recording sessions, plus rehearsal and editing sessions besides that, over Friday, Saturday and Monday, Oct 30-Nov 2.
Joined a collaboration with eight other musicians, recording six songs together, in addition to a few solo tracks. All other musicians happen to be Black. This is part of a full professional project (in a recording studio, with a paid professional sound engineer), and it will take several months of editing, re-recording some individual tracks, second round editing, mixing, and mastering, before we have a finished product. The funds chipped in out of our crowdfunding effort are but a small part of the total being put into this recording.
It will be awhile, but I expect we will all enjoy the final product when it comes out.
This is the first time I ever recorded on Halloween, specifically rehearsing from 5 to 7 pm and recording from 7 to 11:30 pm. As it happens, the recording engineer left his car unlocked. Found out when I came back for the final session on Monday, that he’d called the police after our Saturday session upon finding what he presumed to be blood all over his car, inside and out. However, dispatch called them off after the engineer determined it was fake blood, a prank committed by area youth.
The project came in slightly under budget on travel expenses. As a result, the last bit of extra crowdfunding mailed to me while I was traveling, and included in the budget for the trip, is now being applied to a future project instead.
The rest of the trip
The “paid time” was all for the recording project. But there were a few other things along the way.
Joined Rev. Todd O’Neal’s radio hour on WCVG Radio, 1320 AM in Covington, KY, on Saturday, Oct 31st. If you are a supporter or patron and want the link to hear the radio show, please get in touch with me directly. WCVG was kind enough to give me a copy of the show, but it is for private use only. No publishing it to the world!
House of Joy Worship on Sunday. This is a two hour service, and for the most part I sat back and enjoyed it. However, there was one song I participated in at 0:47:53 that you may enjoy, mistakes, phlegm crossings, and all. https://www.facebook.com/578831915/videos/10157318251561916/
Together, my brother Tim and I spent three hours on voter database updates, and six hours knocking on doors to get out the vote, Nov 2-3. Knocking on doors is so much more effective than calling or texting! Yes we wore masks, and we never went indoors.
This was my first time spent with any family since March 4th, right before the shutdown. My brother was my host while I stayed in Cincinnati. Also owe a shout out to Jerry Hall. He was kind enough to host me for a back porch chat in Indianapolis on Wednesday afternoon, Nov 4, which, timed as it was, allowed me to avoid rush hour traffic in all four cities (Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City) on my return drive home.
What’s Next?
A new commission for local composer Ed Frazier Davis is in the early stages. This means I’ll have a triptych of his work soon. We will record this in January. Have the first full draft edit in hand now for The New Moon, recorded in July, and am working with the others involved to finish and release it in the coming weeks, as planned.
Will be doing a recording of Advent and Christmas music for a church which has canceled all in person worship until sometime next year, due to the explosion of new COVID-19 cases all over the US, but particularly in rural Kansas.
After I finish sending out this report, will take apart and rebuild my desktop computer with brand new processing-related components (CPU, GPU, RAM, Motherboard). This upgrade was in the plan I made in May, because it will cut in half the time I spend waiting for video and sound editing processes to execute. It is because of your support that everything I put into the budget back in May, has actually happened, thus far.
Will subscribe to professional sound editing software after I have the upgraded computer that can run it.
