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68. A Tune Searching for a Story
1 year ago
This started with music. I was listening to some new tracks and loved two of the solos so much that I put them together with Movie Maker to make a duet. I then looked for a story to play it over.
This first draft is a series of screen grabs from a DVD, with Photo Story 3 defaults all the way.
Thanks to the photography and video skills of Chuck Bentley... the music by Randon Myles Chisnell, and the combined solos by Catherine Sugas and Chris MacLean Nagle... I'm looking forward to chatting with you about it at our next get-together.
This first draft is a series of screen grabs from a DVD, with Photo Story 3 defaults all the way.
Thanks to the photography and video skills of Chuck Bentley... the music by Randon Myles Chisnell, and the combined solos by Catherine Sugas and Chris MacLean Nagle... I'm looking forward to chatting with you about it at our next get-together.
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FANTASTIC! The way the two voices, so different in timbre, also are not quite in sync. And even the variation in words sung gives the whole "duet" a very real sense of two people who are both in tune with each other yet are quite distinct individuals. What a happy, long-lasting marriage they will have! I wonder if they've ever met.
So much for my cultured ears. (Note also that he also caught the variations in the words.) I’m going to wait a day or two before listening again. Stay tuned, John!
as an aside, Christopher C. Nagle is Assistant Professor of English at Western Michigan University, where he teaches courses in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature as well as critical theory and gender studies. Here's a link to his latest book:
us.macmillan.com/sexualityandthecultureofsensibility inthebritishromanticera
Catherine is a close friend of Randon who created the music and recorded the two separate vocals.
And about the duet, I think I was more than "not overly disturbed." [My interpretation of his original answer to my question.] I found the lack of sync distracting, and wished it wasn't there. I trust it was a technical difficulty, and not intentional--?? If it was intentional, it was a serious misstep in my opinion. [He's even less sophisticated than I when it comes to understanding how you combined the two vocal lines.]
I have a technical question, though--I'm still fascinated by what you tried to do: were the singers singing a cappella, and if not, how did you deal with the independent musical accompaniments in Audacity?
And last, a literature question: is the shot of the house at about 2:28 a house on Eccles Street, maybe Number 7?
I guess it was recorded in cappella style... Randon first recorded the music, then in separate sessions recorded Chris and Catherine singing solos with it. As it was the same music, it was easy to overlay the two solos with only the vocal sync or lack of it to be concerned about.
I played with them a bit more today but didn't find anything better.