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The Sound of A Human Voice
by Jim Bouchard

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Submitted on: Nov 08, 2008 - 07:17:59 PM
Last Updated: Nov 08 2008 - 07:19:34 PM

Description This is an experiment sort of quickly done today using Meringue, sort of influenced by Juana Molina, and at the last minute I decided to add this story by Studs Terkel from NPR's podcast of Story Corps. He passed away last week and I thought this might be an appropriate tribute to this great American Story Teller. RIP Studs.

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	michael2 said 62 days ago
	perfect love the story told over that super lush sound bed. it's so beautiful, i would love to hear a purely instrumental version. excellent job Jim.

Jim Bouchard said 61 days ago

Thanks!
Thanks for the call out!

For some reason, the voice came out really loud. I recorded that using Wiretap, which may explain that but it is a free podcast you can download from iTunes. It really started out as an experiment using Meringue. I had a free early version of this that I used a while back but it stopped working when I got my Intel mac, and they recently updated it and made the GUI really cool to look at, as it has a window that visually represents how the effect is working. It's a delay that plays backwards and forwards with various filters. It always was pretty trippy sounding, now it's trippy to look at.
http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/meringue.html
Unfortunately it's not free but that's the only negative.

The other thing that was inspiring me is the new Juana Molina album, and I set out to do something like that but to no surprise, I ended up with something sort of different since I have very different tools. You can get a free Juana Molina track here:
http://www.juanamolina.com/tourdownload/

	Relic67 said 62 days ago
	enjoyable. I enjoyed the story and the music... thanx.

	Roca_Atomica said 61 days ago
	Studs was a helluva guy. An appropriate tribute. Really nice music as a backdrop.

	egobandit said 60 days ago
	perfect MAkes you think its the little things , life as we know is fading. Another great gone. Love the song!

	estellie said 51 days ago
	Wow That story is just amazing. What a wise, wise man, and what a brilliance for story telling. You've done him a great tribute. *E P.S. You've made a Juana Molina fan out of me! Thanks.

	davisamerica said 35 days ago
	great track Studs Terkel was an American treasure ... very nice tribute and very well done

	bud said 2 days ago
	Very cool track Jim great idea to use Studs on this - he's a quintessential story teller. our backing is wonderful - like M2 I'd love to hear alone also. I like how the percussion sounds like big metal mixing bowls sometimes. I used to have a standing lamp with a large metal shade that made it onto a lot of 4 track recordings.

	bud said 1 day ago
	Thanks for the tip on Sonivox. New to me - and very interesting. I gave my daughter a Tibetan singing bowl for Christmas this year. She's getting interested in meditation and sound healing. Again - really interesting piece of music.

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