Re: Catherine Todd's recording
 | from |  | Catherine Todd | 10.8.07 details | 9:19 pm | |||||||
| to |  | Jim Goodin | ||||||||||
| cc |  | Corin Nelsen | ||||||||||
| date | Oct 8, 2007 9:19 PM | |||||||||||
| subject | Re: Catherine Todd's recording | |||||||||||
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PrintThanks! I can't believe you said this: <<>>
Are you serious? Thanks!
I also can't believe I actually went there and did this, especially after being so out of practice. You have no idea how difficult it was, and how frightened I was going, and insecure I was feeling once I got there. But I somehow got through it; you would think I was playing to a crowd of thousands! Ridiculous... I have NEVER felt that nervous and just flat insecure about EVERYTHING ("there's nothing worth recording here, or paying $500.00 for! But don't chicken out now; finish what you started! Mine own drill Sergeant in my own mind). Now, of course I am so glad that I did it. Better late than never, that's my current motto... before it's all gone!
I finally started to "get a grip" when I told Corin that the recording wasn't worth the money, but the "recording seminar" definitely was, and I got a little something to take back with me. I have another 15 minute piece from the second day (unedited) which I am going to work with in GarageBand to see about layering, etc.
The most amazing thing is that the music "came" at all, and it did! I couldn't do the fancy trills and glissandos and all the rest for lack of practice, but that can be rectified as soon as I get some kind of small "real" piano to fit in this tiny little house I'm in now in NC, and my tiny little house in Panajachel, Guatemala, on Lake Atitlan. Plus Corin and I talked about my getting the newer M-Adio 17 lb. "weighted keys" keyboard that might make a difference compared to the dinky $99.00 I bought at the Apple store when I got my first laptop with GarageBand last year.
Where have I been all my life? What the heck have I been doing? Lots of things, but the last 20 years seem to have gone by like a blur... going to Vermont was definitely a new / earlier door opening in the right direction, and it's all due to you for recommending it and making it a possibility in my mind, and for Corin for opening that door and welcoming me in.
Shades of the Gaslight in NYC back in the late sixties - early seventies. It's all coming back to me now...
What a wonderful experience. I hope to go back in the Spring with more to do, now that I have a "musical map" and know a bit of how to go about all this mess.
Thanks to both of you... Your friend "in Art & Music," Catherine Todd
P.S. You are the first person I have sent this little piece to, so let me know if you think others would enjoy it. I haven't even had the nerve to send it to my friends yet. People always seem to when I sit down to play wherever I see a piano, but I could never really "hear" the music when I was playing, so I feel like a real novice in this area. Critique away! And thanks again to you both!
Corin did such a great job recording AND answering all my questions and letting me learn a bit about the whole actual recording business, and making me feel welcome and not like a pure flat out idiot! I can't imagine that I could have got through it without the mat he put out. What a nice person, just as you are! I got lucky two times...
On 10/8/07, Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com > wrote:
Corin hey. Catherine just shared with me a track from her recent IRS session. Really really lovely capturing on your part as I would only expect. Her playing is new (equally as lovely as the sound) to me this being only the second thing I've ever heard from her but I had a good sense from our Web meeting that she would bring a good magic to IRS as so many have. Last time I was there there wasn't a piano yet so pleased that that is now part of the sound there, this one sounds wonderful. I don't know when I'll get back there. I'm still a bit disappointed that we didn't present the Chinapainting concept very clearly to you which really resulted in Daryl and I finding another room. In the end for the money that we had and the desire for the amount of time, the studio we used in Woodstock was really perfect and we've got a great record in the works. Still describing Daryl's technology needs was not presented right on my or our part and it was no wonder it sort of hit you like this may be a mess perhaps. Regardless the capturing of his analog machines was done in a separate room and the noise in the end wasn't really an issue. Hope you are well. Again Catherine's recording sounds really nice Corin.BestJim
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