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Smaz Blues
I finally got around to installing software on my digital audio workstation today. The machine, cobbled together from old parts, is an Athlon XP 2600+ with 512MB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive. It’s dual booting Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and Ubuntu 8.10. I usually have it running in Ubuntu as my media server and, when I upgrade the RAM, a VMware server for development projects. The only reason I have Windows on it is to run Cakewalk Sonar 6, which I picked up on the cheap at the CompUSA fire sale a little while back. Now I finally have a dedicated environment for audio software only, which prevents a lot of configuration headaches.
Anyway, when I got Sonar fired up, I dug around for some old project files. That’s when I discovered this home recording from 1997. This is a spontaneous improvisation between myself and Stephen Mazzetta on guitar. Originally recorded with some crappy dynamic mics and a Gravis Ultrasound card, I did what I could to make it presentable:
Smaz Blues
This is from the same home recording sessions that produced the Flam and Mars Walk takes on my audio page. There’s more, too. It’s fun listening to this stuff twelve years later!