{"id":726,"date":"2010-11-16T21:23:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T05:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.92.17.21\/?p=726"},"modified":"2011-03-23T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:27:03","slug":"tonights-kaddish-intentional-improvisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"daily kaddish: intentional improvisation &#038; accidental counterpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mira is away at a conference for the week, so I don&#8217;t know how well she&#8217;ll be keeping up with the daily recordings, but for the rest of our virtual minyan, today&#8217;s Kaddish is ready and waiting in the usual location.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I made my first attempt to play from memory, and the result was a brief improvised passage when I needed to recover from either a left turn or a blanking-out; I can&#8217;t remember which.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I didn&#8217;t attempt to play from memory, but I did deliberately wander off and back onto the page, improvising between written passages. Expect a lot more of this in future recordings; I&#8217;ll be mixing up straight takes with improvisation and other surprises.<\/p>\n<p>The recordings should be higher quality again starting tomorrow\u2014my Mac is busily downloading its Pro Tools 9 upgrade, at long last. I&#8217;m glad that I had the fine shareware tool Amadeus Pro available for the week in which I couldn&#8217;t seem to keep Pro Tools 7 working, and I&#8217;ll be even more glad to get back to the high-end software. In audio software as in so many things, you really do get what you pay for. (Of course, you also get a much steeper learning curve. My head already hurts in anticipation.)<\/p>\n<h3>update<\/h3>\n<p>Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>Zoe was right (see comments below)! I embedded a pretty cool surprise. Unfortunately I did it entirely by accident!<\/p>\n<p>The surprise comes to us through a string of mishaps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While working on my Pro Tools 9 upgrade and driver updates, I accidentally nudged one of the gain knobs, so the right channel was recorded at about 10% too high a level.<\/li>\n<li>The distortion from this was pretty unpleasant, so I attempted to do some repairs. First, I split the stereo track into two separate mono tracks. Then I used Amadeus Pro&#8217;s amplify function at \u20131dB to bring down the distorted right channel.<\/li>\n<li>Then I tried to put them back together, but couldn&#8217;t figure out how to do that.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, in frustration, I converted the good channel to stereo, selected it, and bounced it to disk. While doing so, though, I discovered that I&#8217;d left a little too much dead air at the beginning and end of the track, so I trimmed those and resaved\u2026<\/li>\n<li>\u2026not realizing that my selection of the one good pseudo-stereo track was disregarded by the save command. The result? A three-track recording of me at a good input level and myself at a bad input level, somewhat but not completely repaired by the deamplification, in canon at several long beats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could fix it, but that&#8217;s not really in the spirit of our rules (where each take has to go out how it is), and moreso because the effect, although accidental, is actually really cool.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear it for happy accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mira is away at a conference for the week, so I don&#8217;t know how well she&#8217;ll be keeping up with the daily recordings, but for the rest of our virtual minyan, today&#8217;s Kaddish is ready and waiting in the usual location. Last night I made my first attempt to play from memory, and the result&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}