Mother of a day!

School ends Tuesday. Final Exam is in Music Perception. Studying when the sun is up until 11 PM is quite hard, especially when most students are done and they are all having out-door cook-out parties. These cook-outs and the lofty evergreens have made my entire neighborhood smell like a camp-site. But somehow, I've been able to take time out of my busy procrastination scheduale to do some studying.

In fact, this morning, I went out to study outside on the path towards the lake outside my building. It was just like going to church. I read from the Gospel according to Perry R. Cook. Today's sermon focused on 'Memory for Musical Attributes' and 'Auditory Scene Analysis'. The eucharist took the shape of clean, morning air and instead of wine, I drank my coffee in my trusty travel stainless mug. I've drunk so much coffee in Finland, that I fear it will actually replace my blood. But as I always say, it could be worst, I could be addicted to crack.











And today, of course, is Mother's Day. I wasn't sure what I could offer my mother seeing as transatlanticism does not permit me to make her breakfast in bed or a beautiful finger painting, or even a macaroni necklace. So I recorded for her a Mother's Day song, Hail Holy Queen, in a slightly folky style and emailed it to her the .mp3 (eventually). I hope she likes it. I set up my audio digital interface and tried a few trial recordings. The first few takes were quite emotional but I was never satistfied with my voice and my PowerBook's fan, along with the air duct in my aparment, were causing what audio engineers call, negative re-enforcement!!

To solve this, I divised a little isolation booth underneath my desk, making a little 'dead room'. It was like a little fort! I finally got a good take, and voila...a beautiful Auditory Mother's Day Card for my beautiful maman! Je t'aime Maman!!