Happy new year my friends! My resolution was to deliver to you the best album I know how to make. We are on track for that (we’re now in post-production), so I wanted to share this sneak preview with you. Enjoy!
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Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I’ve posted videos from the private concert we did in Artemisia Royal encampment during middle weekend of Pennsic 50.
Yes, a number of these songs were also done in the PA tent concert a few days later, and I’ve shared out those videos. But the private concert space was different. It was a small space, but it was quickly packed as we started performing. We were all looser. And the audience energy was much more like a regular SCA bardic performance than the stage was. And…we mixed in solo performances from my friends Silence, Bird, Colette, Robbin, and Eadaoin, which all were fantastic.
So check it out if you feel like it. My new filk “Putting It Together”, in particular, played completely different in this space, and it makes me really happy.
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New song: Homecoming
We just got back from Pennsic (and boy is our everything tired). We’re extremely happy with our decision to only go for peace week this year and manage our risks. More about that later.
While I was at war, I debuted my newest song, “Homecoming”, which I finished last Friday, just in time for Pennsic. I was able to share it at a couple of bardic circles and a number of private performances for friends and chosen family.
And 5 weeks later…another new class! This one is titled “Developing Stage Presence as a Bard”, and I remembered to get a recording of it! This was a lively class with lots of interaction, which I really enjoyed.
Saturday, Jess and I attended the Yule event for the Baronies of Bergental and Beyond the Mountain. It was a lovely chance to get to see people one last time before we pack it in on SCA events for the winter (and the corresponding COVID surge, which of course is already on the rise). We were primarily there so I could deliver a commission:
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Summer Project: Video #3
This is the third video in my summer series, “An Elizabethan Afternoon”: Thomas Campion’s “I care not for these ladies”. (CW: The author compares women based on how “easy” versus “high maintenance” they are.)
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Summer Project: Video #2
Here is the second Elizabethan Afternoon video: “The Binding of Isaac”.
I have challenged myself for this summer to return to my focus on Elizabethan music, and put together a short “concert” of my favorite lute pieces. This is the first song from that collection, “Come again, sweet love”. I really like the outdoor setting, though it creates its own challenges, and the audio is re-recorded separately. Enjoy.
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How to put subtitles on a video
I promised in a previous post that I would share a detailed explanation for how to place subtitles or lyrics directly on a video using a powerful piece of free software, VLC Media Player. This is the easiest and best way to do it that I’ve seen, and the approach I used for “The Zoom Where It Happens”.
Here are the steps:
The motto of an SCA artisan is basically: “Show your work and share your work”. With the release of “The Zoom Where It Happens”, it has turned out that editing a complex video is part of my skill set. And since the upcoming First Bardic War is going to include editing of group videos as a key judging metric for a number of War Points, I thought I would discuss my process for creating this video, as an editing novice.
Here are the different technical components used to create this video:
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