Short: First part of a three part suite Author: William F. Maddock Uploader: billsey earthlink net Type: mods/mpg Replaces: mods/mpg/Foundation1.mpg Architecture: generic ---------------------------------------- January 1, 2003 In the late 1980's I was in my home when a thunderstorm struck. I had decided sometime before that it would be cool if I could record a thunderstorm, so when this one hit, I grabbed the Vesta Fire MR10b that I had recently bought, grabbed my microphones (rubberbanding them into baggies), and a cassette and went to work. I had the recorder set up in the garage and the microphones hung on a pair of clothesline posts. I recorded thunderstorm for the next ten minutes or so. Now the only question was, "what am I going to do with this recording?" I had also recently purchased a little four octave keyboard (Casiotone MT-68) that I liked to play around on. I pulled that out and started playing, building things up track by track, mixing down. That's where it lay until I just recently (about a year ago) purchased a CD-Recorder for my home stereo system. I went digging through those old cassettes to see what I wanted to preserve and discovered the old Foundations tapes. I even discovered the two multitracks that had not been (stupidly) destroyed.The condition of those multitracks is a testimony to the quality of Maxell cassette tape. Laying around in boxes, stacked in, on, and around who knows what for thirteen years or more. These multitracks were in pristine condition. I even still have the MR10b. Though it has seen much better days, it did the job and Foundations made it to CD. Seven months ago, I finally purchased a CD-RW for my Amiga 1200. A couple of months ago I got an incredible deal on a G3 accellerated Mac 8100, and I have been putting software on that, including Quick Time Pro 6. I use that to, among other things, convert WAVE files to MPEG format. The 8100 has a CD-ROM drive, so I have been able to move those Foundation WAVE files (done in MakeCD) over to the Mac for compressing to MPEG format. Now they are here. I hope you enjoy them. William F. Maddock -- Foundation1 was the first part to be recorded, and it was as a direct result of having the thunderstorm on tape. I decided to do something that could, however poorly, illustrate the foundations of music; so this piece is very basic: just two guitar tracks fronting the thunderstorm.