Since my brother introduced me to Found Magazine several years ago, watching the gutter and sidewalk for interesting things has become a hobby of mine. Unfortunately I was never able to find a good website on which to post the things I found. Found Magazine has an online section called “Find of the Day” but it only allows tiny images, and the wait to get your finds posted is interminable. Fed up, I designed, coded and published my own solution to this internet shortcoming. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: GutterGold.com. Feel free to peruse, rate and comment upon my finds, subscribe to the RSS feed, or post some of your own finds. Also: tell your friends!
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This is my first doo-wop arrangement, and the first full song that I have multitracked. Unfortunately with five tracks at once, the noise on the recording becomes rather annoying. If anyone could help me reduce the noise, I would greatly appreciate it. I plan to write up the arrangement in the next few days (as an exercise) so you can expect to find that soon.
Update:
I typeset the arrangement using Lilypond, a wonderful open source program for engraving music. Here are the results:
My friend Joachim Luis came over tonight and started reading though the beginning piano book that was resting on my keyboard. Being the jock party animals that we are, we decided to try to sing a few of them as two part vocal pieces.
First we sight-read “Rondino” by Jean Philippe Rameau on movable “doo” with Joachim on bass and me on treble (this one is for my dad):
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Then out came the solfeggio. “A Farewell” by Henry Purcell with Joachim on treble and me on bass:
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