I’m on the road now with three friends heading to Tylertown, Mississippi for the funeral of the father of a good friend of ours. I’m having a bit of a geek moment enjoying the fact that I’m on my laptop with internet access thanks to AT&T and the iPhone (only getting Edge coverage though… but it’s good enough!).
We’re only about an hour and a half into being on the road for real (made a few stops before really getting moving). We’ve already had one great road trip song: “if you’re out there” by John Legend. I hadn’t heard the song since the time of the election – but we certainly went to church in the car listening to it!
I’m going to try and check in from time to time even though this will only be a short trip. We’ll be right back on the road coming home to Chicago after the funeral. In the mean time, I’m going to attempt to get some of this backlog of work done. For now, check out the video and I’ll talk to you guys soon!
Wow – that’s my response to my first experience with Multi-Track recording on the iPhone using FourTrack (Apple app store link). It’s pretty impressive what I was able to do with little to no difficulty! I really could have invested more time into making a better recording, but I just wanted to see how difficult it would be. This was SUPER easy and intuitive for me. I actually had some nostalgia thinking of my Dad and how he would have loved something like this. He spent hours creating and recording his own music with various forms of technology.
Anyway, check out my first recording. I’ll be the first to say, the pitch is a bit off – but that’s my fault for not getting a key center before I started recording. This was just for fun.
Technical notes: this is actually a 6-track recording that after ‘bouncing’ or re-recording all the separate channels into one channel I imported into Audacity to add reverb and convert to mp3 format.
I did begin to get memory usage warnings, but that was only after recording a 4th track and I never experienced any trouble recording. There were a few times where the program would lock up during playback, but exiting using the home key and returning to the program loaded everything again without error.
Transferring the files via WiFi went without a hitch as well. I can see this app consuming hours of my creative time.
Zephaniah 3:15 says “The Lord has taken away your punishment, he has turned back your enemy…” and verse 17 goes on to remind us that God is with us, delighting us, loving us, and even singing about US. Tonight I had a long conversation with a friend who was feeling the guilt of sin and failure. In all of that he was frustrated the discrepancy between where he wanted to be spiritually and where he was in that moment. I’ve been there myself, but this scripture brings out a GREAT point about the Grace of God that applies in his situation as well. Read the rest of this entry »
Wow! This week at the Willow Creek Arts Conference, Nancy Beach encouraged us to embrace the “wow” moments that we often look past. This week has been a continual state of ‘wow’. I’m so full of wonder and inspiration to dig deeper, stretch further, and grow more as a creative professional, as a worship leader, and as a Christ-follower. I’m embracing a greater awareness my calling and the experience that God has equipped me with. My idle thoughts are racing with new realizations and greater aspirations. I’m seeing this new energy affect things around me. Taking risks and responsibilities that I wouldn’t have taken before. Read the rest of this entry »
First I want to send a shout-out to all those lurkers out there who read but don’t comment. Lurker is a common internet term for people who are actively reading a site or discussion, but not responding / joining in the discussion. Though it sounds bad, it’s not always – we all would do well to observe what’s going on before we go to saying whatever is on our minds. With that being said, I do want to encourage anyone who drops by to let me know that you were here. Just a quick hello or even a smiley face . Sure Google tells me I had X number of visitors each day, but it’s nice to hear from you rather than Google. This comes up because I recently learned that one of the two primary ways I experience love are “Words of Affirmation” ( which also scored equally with “Acts of Service”.)
On my way home from a concert I was feeling a bit frustrated. As I dug into what I was feeling I was even so bold as to tweet about it (here and here) – speaking up was a GREAT idea because it sparked a small discussion on Facebook (where my tweets show up as my status message). Read the rest of this entry »
. Sure Google tells me I had X number of visitors each day, but it’s nice to hear from you rather than Google. This comes up because I recently learned that one of the two primary ways I experience love are 
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