Visiting Mama 2005

I have big news. This November I will be traveling to Africa.

I'm really excited about this. It has just come about because of work; I'll be visiting our South African user group's meeting in Johannesburg, but will also take time off to journey about a bit. Where, I haven't quite decided yet, but I've just bought a fat Lonely Planet guidebook and am getting ideas.

If you've traveled in Africa and have advice, please add a comment.

One thing I've just read is that music cassettes are very widely used. I'm thinking I'd like to make a mix tape of songs by friends to give as a gift. If you're a musician and want to send out a song in my "Hello, Africa!" tape, please email me.

I'm hoping to come back with some sounds of Africa. If you have advice on unobtrusive recording options (I'm not talking "furtive"; I mean not boom mikes), especially ones that are lightweight, please leave a comment about that as well. I don't really have any experience with field recordings, so there'll probably be more posts to come about acquiring that skill.

(Somehow audio souvenirs of my trip are more compelling to me at the moment than the idea of photos. Interesting.)

This is going to be exciting.

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Visiting Mama

I have big news. This November I will be traveling to Africa.

I'm really excited about this. It has just come about because of work; I'll be visiting our South African user group's meeting in Johannesburg, but will also take time off to journey about a bit. Where, I haven't quite decided yet, but I've just bought a fat Lonely Planet guidebook and am getting ideas.

If you've traveled in Africa and have advice, please add a comment.

One thing I've just read is that music cassettes are very widely used. I'm thinking I'd like to make a mix tape of songs by friends to give as a gift. If you're a musician and want to send out a song in my "Hello, Africa!" tape, please email me.

I'm hoping to come back with some sounds of Africa. If you have advice on unobtrusive recording options (I'm not talking "furtive"; I mean not boom mikes), especially ones that are lightweight, please leave a comment about that as well. I don't really have any experience with field recordings, so there'll probably be more posts to come about acquiring that skill.

(Somehow audio souvenirs of my trip are more compelling to me at the moment than the idea of photos. Interesting.)

This is going to be exciting.

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