What an education.  Thank you Eric for the opportunity to learn something new - audacity.  I think I learnt a little of the complexity of your work too.

I added some tabla and raised the levels on little snippets that I adore and that somehow moved me, so you could say I puncuated it with my own response to the individual tracks.  An experimental piece.  Timing is not great at the end, forgive me.

Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise - Experimental Remix (SalGoodwin)

[ Eric Whitacre invited people to re-mix Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise - here is a link to the original: 
http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir/history/vc4-flytoparadise  ]
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I have created an xperimental re-mix, that began from the sense of call and response of the angels(voices) that I sense when I listen to the original.

I improvised a line with the soloists that attempts to represent the voice in me that appears when I listen to the piece and added sounds from the original tracks and extras to try and create the movement I also feel.  

Jamming in the sky is what it felt like trying to get this to come together - if I had been in a room with all the instruments and voices that make up this piece, I think I might be in heaven.  Eric, you have a fantastic job, thank you for the opportunity to 'play' and create.  This is my second attempt using audacity.

Virtual Choir 4: Fly to Paradise - Jamming in the sky remix

This weeks 2 hour learn and record - I love this song, I felt nervous on this one, hard to keep control of the voice the more I got into the song. Some issues with recording levels too high.

Cover : I Will Remember You by Sarah McLachlan

This was the song I practised first for this weeks singing challenge and was finding it really hard - it's such a classic and the original is one of my favourites.  Anyhow I decided to give it another go, so this was recorded in a few takes over 20 minutes, there are many imperfections. I didn't want the effort to go to waste.

Thank you Joni for a great song to try.

Cover - River (Joni Mitchell/Sarah McLachlan)1971

Cover - I Will Be There by Katie Melua

This was in response to Virtual Choir friends completing a choral performance in New York that I couldn't be there for.  This song was my way of celebrating from across the Atlantic.

Spontaneous one take recording.  Found a karaoke YouTube track, plugged the mic in and sung.  

I've Got the World on a String - Frank Sinatra 1953

Melody Gardot cover - using a karaoke instrumental track and audacity free software to record my voice.  

Out of sync at the beginning, why does Audacity do this when I mix it to a .wav file?

If The Stars Were Mine

Love Me Like A River - Cover (Melody Gardot)

Back to challenging myself with some jazz and learning & recording my efforts in one evening. 

Classic sung by Carmen McRae, Tony Bennett ...........and this version by Jamie Cullum.

Old Devil Moon

Composed by Wayne King, Victor Young and Egbert Van Alstyne with lyrics by Haven Gillespie. 1931 

Beautiful Love (Anita O'Day)

It has been a tough week, so I sang. Love this song, not really my genre. Hunter Parrish does it so well. Backing track has the wrong key change and tempo at one point! Perfectly Imperfect.

Recorded using audacity

Cover: Beautiful City from Godspell

Bad week and a general election necessitated more singing ;) 

recorded with a purchased backing track of Tony Bennett's version and simple record using audacity and a mic.

The Best Is Yet To Come

Working on getting words out and not holding the ends of notes too long!  Love this track. Singing along to the track playing in the background.

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