One More Day
Video of most recent Mix. Includes Morgan and Allison. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Length is now around 2 min.
Category: music
The Snow Geese
Each year the snow geese migrate from the Arctic and pass through Ladner where they pause to refuel at Reifel Isalnd Bird Sanctuary. I was inspired to write this song about them. They are a seasonal marker for me, and I love to go and watch them in their hundreds as they rest and feed in the fields and on the shorelines.
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Pat Howard – banjo , Janie Benna (harmony) and Rena Pinteric (on mandolin).
More music
The links above lead to the video because I can’t make the music category apply to a page.
Wedding Song
I had to hack this a bit to cover for my screw up near the beginning — I mean my video work not John’s playing.
900 Miles
Here is a very old blues.
Scarborough Fair
Man of Constant Sorrow
This has an extra sound track that good observers should already notice. I’m still working on the video edits so the final transition is pretty rough.
Ballad of Edward Snowden
Snowden Introduction
In 2014 the Documentary Movie Citizen Four won an Oscar for best documentary.
In January 2013,documentary film maker Laura Poitras started receiving anonymous encrypted e-mails from “CITIZENFOUR,” who claimed to have evidence of illegal surveillance programs run by the NSA. Five months later, she and reporter Glenn Grenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden.
The STAZI were the East German Secret Police.
The Intercept is an online news publication dedicated to “adversarial journalism”.
The Amnesic Incognito Live System,TAILS, is a secure version of LINUX that along with TOR and PGP can enable private secure communication.
References to an hundred million in the song are vastly understated but I couldn’t make realistic numbers scan or rhyme.
Multi Track Video
The video edit on this clip is pretty good. I suspect they are using ProTools which is pretty expensive and they are pros.
We can achieve the same effect as follows:
- Create a click track on an mp3 file. Sound recorder and a metronome will serve.
- Each musician records the song using whatever they have to create an mp4. A smart phone on a tripod works pretty well. Count the start in 1 2 3 4 to sync the tracks. We cut this out of the final production.
- We pick the most likely version and each listen to it while re-recording our own part.
- The tracks are mixed into a video using LightWorks or ShotCut.
- We could post the individual .mp4s on vfss.ca so we don’t need to email huge video files.
The mix is the big job I think I can do it in a day or so. I’ve created a demo with SHOTCUT, just me playing two videos rhythm and lead side by side. When you see it remember I don’t play all that well but the video and sound quality is pretty good. The video shows the process for creating the combined track which is the last part of the presentation. Two tracks are harder than one but three or four will not be that much more difficult.
Vancouver Folk Song Society 