Nerdio audio experiments, podcasts
“O hai. I’z in ur radio crackin’ mahself ups.” Wow, recording a full story for radio is really hard work! You have to slow way down, waaaaaay down, when you read, and then, sometimes, you have to say stuff over and over and over again. “Okay, now try it this way…” and then, sometimes, if …
Here’s a little video in which I do not entirely mangle this delightful 1936 tune. This is the fourth take. I’m posting it with mistakes, crazy bed head hair, and the dropped last couple of seconds because who do I think I am, Madonna? I have no stylist, video production crew, sound engineer, or, oh, …
When we were little kids, my folks used to pry us out of bed before dawn on summer weekends, bundle us in the back of the Buick Estate Wagon, and drive us over the winding hazard that is California’s Highway 17. I don’t remember anything about the transition from bed to car, but I can …
I got some nice mail about this bit, so I’ve recorded it. The music is Nanci Griffith, Morning Song for Sally, off Other Voices, Other Rooms. The birdsong is from a cool site called Freesound where there’s loads of stuff for aspiring podcasters and audio nerds to use in their work. It’s been a while …
My pal K. called me about a week ago. “You gotta learn to play this song,” he said. I was kinda ambivelent – my original ambition had been to learn a good classic Hannukah song for the Seattle Ukulele Player’s Association holiday party. I started fishing around for music and everything was minor key and …