Worldcon-2006

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If you're seeing this on the website, don't expect too much. This file is basically just a placeholder until I cook up a proper index.html file for the directory. On the other hand, if you're browsing the directory tree, you already know that I put a HEADER.html file into every directory to aid in navigation.

This concert was performed at the Worldcon (LACon IV) in 2006. It was recorded using a Griffin iMic and a Griffin lapel mic clipped to a button, which in turn was pinned to a chair in the front row. The software used was Audacity running on a Macbook Pro.

In the working directory, Audacity was used to split (a copy of) the original recording into .wav files after an attempt at normalizing the levels -- unfortunately this is rather labor-intensive. An attempt was made at noise-removal on the various intros, which normalization boosted 15-20dB. This left a few artifacts that sound a lot like ringing, but I'm not going to worry about it too much.

Note that I don't have proper license information in the .ogg files yet -- they're all cc-by-sa-nc except for "Ship of Stone".

Annotated Contents

Tracks

1	[ogg]	talking-soundcheck
2	[ogg]	intro_to cicero
3	[ogg]	Cicero in the Twenty First Century
		This is the song that made me realize that I needed a script to format set lists for posting in my Livejournal.
4	[ogg]	intro_to demon
5	[ogg]	House Carpenter / Demon Lover
		I wrote a story that included a description of a duet between a singer/songwriter and an AI built into his guitar. ``House Carpenter'' and ``Demon Lover'' come from their first gig together.
6	[ogg]	intro_to ship
7	[ogg]	Ship of Stone
8	[ogg]	intro_to silk
9	[ogg]	Silk and Steel
		Another song about the AI guitar. I still don't know the backstory behind this one.
10	[ogg]	The World Inside the Crystal
		My first serious computer song.
11	[ogg]	intro_to guilty
12	[ogg]	Guilty Pleasures
		This was actually written in realtime---I finished it at about 2am after everyone else had gone to bed.

 Name                      Last modified       Size  Description

 Parent Directory          01-Jul-2008 22:18      -  
 00-talking-soundcheck.ogg 16-Sep-2006 19:46   795k  
 01--intro_to_cicero.ogg   16-Sep-2006 19:46   465k  
 01-cicero.ogg             16-Sep-2006 19:46   1.7M  
 02--intro_to_demon.ogg    16-Sep-2006 19:46   448k  
 02-house-c_demon.ogg      16-Sep-2006 19:46   5.8M  
 03--intro_to_ship.ogg     16-Sep-2006 19:46   309k  
 03-ship.ogg               16-Sep-2006 19:46   2.9M  
 04--intro_to_silk.ogg     16-Sep-2006 19:46   227k  
 04-silk.ogg               16-Sep-2006 19:46   2.2M  
 05-world.ogg              16-Sep-2006 19:46   1.6M  
 06--intro_to_guilty.ogg   16-Sep-2006 19:46   572k  
 06-guilty.ogg             16-Sep-2006 19:46   2.2M  
 Makefile                  20-Mar-2007 08:43     1k  
 Worldcon-2006.html        22-Sep-2006 09:32     3k  
 Worldcon-2006.list        16-Sep-2006 19:46     1k  
 notes                     16-Sep-2006 19:44     1k  
 tracks                    16-Sep-2006 19:27     1k

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