sub-continental Saturday
I’m setting up my little “recording studio” in my room and the neighboring storage room in my new house.
Somewhere in all the wiring, I’ve managed to create an antenna tuned to an Indian Bhangra radio station. Weirdly, one of my microphones picks it up more than the other. I mean, I switch out everything else and it comes down to, whereever I move the microphone in my audio lines, that’s where the radio station is. I have a second, identical mic that doesn’t pick up the radio as strongly. Shit. It’s only audible when the pre is up around +50db, but shit.
The good news is I have a weakness for a little sub-continental flavor in my productions anyway. I guess I don’t even have to try now.
In a related item, I’m perilously close to buying Arular. I’m not a big fan of dance music that’s not hip-hop, and then I rarely buy it anyway, but there is something kind of infectious about this stuff.
Also, I took this picture of a statue of Shiva yesterday at the Denver Art Museum. I don’t remember the date, but it was pretty old. Between 1000 and 1500 CE, or something.
July 16th, 2005 at 11:11 am
i guess it’s more likely that a neighbor is driving speakers with my Bhangra radio station, and that’s leaking through the power supply, and the microphone is just amplifying that. rather than the antenna theory. =)
July 16th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
Are you sure you want to in a public forum refer to Shiva as “he”?
Speaking of dancing . . .
Can you dance the Shiva?
July 18th, 2005 at 9:08 pm
i’m surprising myself by really getting into Be, Common’s latest. (not that i even knew about Common before his latest.)
also bought Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in the same purchase, but i’m not quite ready for that yet.