Re: Composing

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@...>

> --- Sally Caves skrzypszy:
> > Me (yry), I am primarily a songwriter in Teonaht, with music to
accompany my
> > songs.
>
> Yes, I heard them. They are lovely!
Thank you!  They will be much better once I can get them recorded with
better musical accompaniment on my husband's digital recorder.  I'm thinking
of looking into the Audacity software that Terry Donnelly mentioned.

> > I used to play piano hungrily, and have composed several short piano
> > pieces.  All of them deliberately weird.
>
> You don't have by chance any recorded matter online (of the piano pieces,
I
> mean)? Or scanned pages?
No, not yet... I've never been a great performer, especially under pressure.
Especially with my husband holding the mike, setting the registers on the
TASCAM, and giving me the start signal.  Hands get sweaty, heart pounds,
because perfection is EVERYTHING in a recording, and our little recorder
doesn't do cuts and pastes very well (you hear a definite cessation of sound
before the jump).  I'm better when I'm alone or with a group of people.
HATED recitals.  If "Audacity" can give me note by note control, I'd prefer
that, but I wonder if the program will record my singing?  I'm much more
confident when I'm moving my vocal chords than when I'm moving my fingers
over a keyboard.  Don't know why.  But I'll work on it!


Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."