The Sound of A Human Voice by Jim Bouchard [Email]
Genre: Ambient
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This is an experiment sort of quickly done today using Meringue, sort of influenced by Juana Molina, and at the last minute I decided to add this story by Studs Terkel from NPR's podcast of Story Corps. He passed away last week and I thought this might be an appropriate tribute to this great American Story Teller. RIP Studs.Hardware:
Taylor GA3, Kurzweil KME-261Software:
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michael2
love the story told over that super lush sound bed. it's so beautiful, i would love to hear a purely instrumental version. excellent job Jim.
Jim Bouchard
Thanks for the call out!
For some reason, the voice came out really loud. I recorded that using Wiretap, which may explain that but it is a free podcast you can download from iTunes. It really started out as an experiment using Meringue. I had a free early version of this that I used a while back but it stopped working when I got my Intel mac, and they recently updated it and made the GUI really cool to look at, as it has a window that visually represents how the effect is working. It's a delay that plays backwards and forwards with various filters. It always was pretty trippy sounding, now it's trippy to look at.
http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/meringue.html
Unfortunately it's not free but that's the only negative.
The other thing that was inspiring me is the new Juana Molina album, and I set out to do something like that but to no surprise, I ended up with something sort of different since I have very different tools. You can get a free Juana Molina track here:
http://www.juanamolina.com/tourdownload/
Relic67
I enjoyed the story and the music... thanx.
An appropriate tribute. Really nice music as a backdrop.
egobandit
MAkes you think its the little things , life as we know is fading. Another great gone. Love the song!
estellie
That story is just amazing. What a wise, wise man, and what a brilliance for story telling.
You've done him a great tribute.
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P.S. You've made a Juana Molina fan out of me! Thanks.
davisamerica
Studs Terkel was an American treasure ... very nice tribute and very well done
bud
great idea to use Studs on this - he's a quintessential story teller. our backing is wonderful - like M2 I'd love to hear alone also. I like how the percussion sounds like big metal mixing bowls sometimes. I used to have a standing lamp with a large metal shade that made it onto a lot of 4 track recordings.
Jim Bouchard
The metal bowl sounds are Tibetan Bowls samples by Sonivox. They also make a very nice Mellotron and their DVI instruments are fairly cheap. I really enjoyed this. I listened to a podcast of his interviews with people reminiscing about the Depression and it was quite intriguing sonically, and when I heard this little story, I couldn't resist sticking it in this little bit of music I'd put together.