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Sizzling August
14 years ago
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and a full moon overhead.
Back during the late 1980s, I attended an all-day course on metal work - soldering and welding - being given by a professional ornamental metalworker (he specialized in gates) as arranged by Leisure Learning Unlimited; his workplace was in a rather marginal part of town - as I approached the place I happened to observe a row of somnolant winos laid out on a stretch of sidewalk before an abandoned shop like so many dead, hardly something I was prepared to witness so early in the morning. The course was interesting, but this isn't about metal.
Across the access way from the studio, some workmen were busy clearing out what proved to be a now-defunct music studio, tossing equipment into a large dumpster brought there for that purpose. I was appalled at the sight and would have helped myself to some of it , only I had no idea at the time what would be useful and how to use any of it. Gone! to the dump, something no longer legal now - this sort of stuff has to be taken to a recycling site instead.
I did, in spite of myself, manage to rescue a few music tape cartridges from the holocaust, and have them still. One, marked "Belize Music," was a recording of drums and singing at some unknown location in Belize, the former colony of British Honduras that was settled mainly by Africans.
After about ten years, I finally got around to making a digital copy on my computer, burning the resulting two tracks (one for each side of the tape) to CD, and there it rested until the other day when, having set up a computer with Ubuntu Studio, I was looking for a project to practice with.
Copying the two tracks onto my computer, I fired up Audacity and proceeded to use copy/paste to separate out the different parts - there were finally 17 in all, not all of which involved drums. Further experiments showed that Amplify and Normalize had good results and the rest was routine. I have not reburned it to CD yet, but that is to be this project's fate.
I thought of sending a copy to the Belize consulate here but it seems there isn't one. Ah, well...
Back during the late 1980s, I attended an all-day course on metal work - soldering and welding - being given by a professional ornamental metalworker (he specialized in gates) as arranged by Leisure Learning Unlimited; his workplace was in a rather marginal part of town - as I approached the place I happened to observe a row of somnolant winos laid out on a stretch of sidewalk before an abandoned shop like so many dead, hardly something I was prepared to witness so early in the morning. The course was interesting, but this isn't about metal.
Across the access way from the studio, some workmen were busy clearing out what proved to be a now-defunct music studio, tossing equipment into a large dumpster brought there for that purpose. I was appalled at the sight and would have helped myself to some of it , only I had no idea at the time what would be useful and how to use any of it. Gone! to the dump, something no longer legal now - this sort of stuff has to be taken to a recycling site instead.
I did, in spite of myself, manage to rescue a few music tape cartridges from the holocaust, and have them still. One, marked "Belize Music," was a recording of drums and singing at some unknown location in Belize, the former colony of British Honduras that was settled mainly by Africans.
After about ten years, I finally got around to making a digital copy on my computer, burning the resulting two tracks (one for each side of the tape) to CD, and there it rested until the other day when, having set up a computer with Ubuntu Studio, I was looking for a project to practice with.
Copying the two tracks onto my computer, I fired up Audacity and proceeded to use copy/paste to separate out the different parts - there were finally 17 in all, not all of which involved drums. Further experiments showed that Amplify and Normalize had good results and the rest was routine. I have not reburned it to CD yet, but that is to be this project's fate.
I thought of sending a copy to the Belize consulate here but it seems there isn't one. Ah, well...
