Artifacts

@Alex In California: Now that I know that my government smartphone, besides having given the U.S. Census Bureau a way to tally me and my ilk, whose last address was someplace in Florida in the nineties and whose mailing address is a resource center for the homeless; is good for capturing audio when being used as a video camera.

My initial test with the "sound recorder" application in the phone yielded such a garbled "music you hear when on hold " sound quality that I had written the phone off as perhaps not having the right hardware, etc.

But, along with maybe a five minute version of The Guy Who Plays Late Into The Mornings On Canal Street doing a whole song, and after having introduced myself to him and gotten, yes, his name and I guess his permission to shoot a video (maybe he has some arrangement where I would have to like him on Facebook in exchange, or something)...

His job is probably the first one that I would want here, if I were to quit the Lilly Pad.

To play on Canal Street, through an amp so loud that the sounds of your playing ricocheting off of buildings and things, supplies an echo effect.
I supposed a totally deserted and quiet city where you could hear a pin drop would be a cool recording studio for a band to set up and play live.
But that can be achieved in the studio by using echoes panned left and right coming back at different time intervals and then some de-tuning of notes to simulate how a note that has traveled a great distance and then bounced back can be resonating at a slightly different frequencies, due to differences in air pressures.

Reminder to self: Pick up cat food!!

But, it would be satisfying to play at that volume level, no doubt.

The opposite of the Lilly Pad "unplugged" situation where a harmonica played acoustically is at the outer envelope of sounds tolerable to those who sleep there.

At the Lilly Pad, though, I could add amplification in the form of an amp small enough to fit in my backpack to go with a headset microphone, which would be concealed in the harmonica harness thing. This invisible amp would have its effects settings pegged to the max; a setting that would be way too much echo, reverb or whatever if a person were to stick their ear right on the amp but which would function not so much to boost the volume of the singing, but only to add the echo or reverb; so I would be singing at the same volume but would sound like I was in a shower, BRILLIANT!

I would still prefer to do this at the Lilly Pad, rather than go blast out Canal Street, but the divide is not to big.

Speaking of which, I have the money to go to sell plasma tomorrow; or I could stay up working on my next piece of music which will be to add my voice and my guitar to a track similar to the "Unearthed" piece.

This time I will have the added advantage of being able to put a dope beat together, armed with the knowledge that I acquired by putting a beat after the fact to the "Unearthed" thing, to make "Artifacts."

What I hope I have created is my own very customize-able drum machine which will take a back seat to the guitar harmonica and lyric driven stuff which is my bread and butter.

Not that I would try to live on bread and butter
 

Left: I ponder a world without kratom...