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Yesterday, we watched a Swedish dramadocumentary that we had received on VHS – Upp till Kamp. This inspired us to look for more stuff from the 60s and 70s Gothenburg… đ The video clip above is from TĂ€ltprojektet – the Tent project. It shows Sillstryparn a.k.a. Garotta Di Anchovy performing his most famous hit.
>This is posted using my new iPod touch. The interface is just great. The functionaity sucks.how the hell does Steve jobs think that safari would be acceptable without flash and various media players?
>Very early morning. Got out of bed 05:00 and arrived Hilton at 07:00. No sign of iBahn, Hiton’s preferred ISP. After 35 minutes we found iBahn’s technician. but no conference code. I phoned all their support lines, without luck.
After some coffee and more telephone calls, and some nasty emails via Hilton’s free Internet, we got the Conference Code.
Suddenly all rooms worked, but one. The Harris room net was not working. It was a patch cord in the wrong place.
Hilton had also managed to swap vga feeds between conference rooms!
Finally, just before 09:00, everything worked. At the end of the day, I have to say that Hilton‘s and iBahn‘s efforts are quite unprofessional…
>It’s been one of those… significant weekends. Coming out from the local shopping centre, Hugin (or Munin) was talking to me. The Raven speaks, the Raven flies…
Saturday, we had Sushi. Sunday, we had lobster (see older blogs for pictures)
We [re-]watched the movie Ray [Charles]
I cried and laughed.
>It’s been a good day. I’ve been working at home on the …. PhD. While trying to re-conciliate some odds and ends on where and how we start thinking about sound making I came across some really good and funny sources.
First of all, I remember going o various music hall and variety shows in the 1960’s and onwards where, quite often, one of the acts would be the sound guy. This was normally some short funny stories where the performer created all the sound effects with his or her voice (or body) live, on stage. Part of the trick was the performers understanding of how to use or utilize the microphone [perspective] in relation to their voice and body.
While trying to find a written source on this topic, I found Fred Newman’s book Mouthsounds, which I immediately ordered. Continuing to refine my search terms, I also found some very good examples on YouTube:
– Joe Saba
– Harry Potter sound f/x
– Amazing beat box
Listen and enjoy!
>Over the last couple of weeks, Softday has completed yet another interesting piece of electroacoustic music. This time, we had an invite from Germany to create something about Orpheus. We looked at all kinds of source materials and eventually landed on the parallels in Irish mythology. The result will be released on some kind of German compilation CD.
>My wife is in hospital. I’m the âspouse of the patient, from Hellâ. What this means is that I ask too many questions. Between each visit, I use Google, all university accessible Scientific Journal databases, etc., to find out more about how little we know [me and the medics] about what’s going on.
Yesterday, I realised some of the Medical Magic… It’s actually the same in Tech Magic.
DON’T TELL THE CLIENT
So, what does this mean? Well, it’s pretty simple. As a professional, as data unravels, one hypothesises. While doing this, it may not be such a good idea to tell the Client about all possibilities. Just tell them:
âDon’t worry, we’ll have this sorted by the end of the weekâ
or
âWe’re all going to die, so there’s nothing to worry aboutâ
Uh, Oh, don’t tell them the latter. It’s probably to radical… Let’s try
âYour hard disk it totally corrupted. They’re quite cheap these days. Let’s get a new one, re-install everything, and load your backupâ
Uh, Oh….
Anyhow, what dawned on me was that as professionals, we all do the same. The more we know, and hypothesise, the less we should tell the Client while we’re trying to make our minds up what the hell we’re going to do next.
As a patient, I don’t like this. I’d like to know it ALL. On the other hand, if we accept this, the implications are that I don’t need to worry about things:
My Accountant: should worry about my tax returns.
My Bank Manager: should worry about how to keep me supplied with cash.
etc…
That’s a happy thought đ
>I had a really good time at ICAD2007. Despite tha fact that I don’t like to be in big cities, the excellent company and academic content made it worthwhile.
Montreal is a beatiful city. In a distance, I even spotted a Bucky-Ball!
Finally, on Saturday we went to the Jazz Festival. My favourite act was definitely Rick L. Blues.
>SkĂ„l! It’s the longest day of 2007. After spending most of the day at TSSG in Waterford on the HEA Site-visit, I made it back home to Limerick. After dinner, we browsed the video shelf and picked Erik the Viking. Good topic for a day like this.
>Yesterday, we picked up the news that Povel Ramel had passed away. It’s a sad day. Povel was the most amazing show-man. I saw him and his KnĂ€ppUpp-team several times when I was a kid. So many of the best performing and comedy artists in Scandinavia today owe him everything. Apart from the great music and musicianship, his way to deal with text and lyrics was just amazing. What really surprised me was that Swedish Television didn’t include comments from Robert Broberg!
Mikael Fernstrom 