The Iowa-New Orleans Recording Connectionby Iowa's Tom Poe, Studio for Recording
The New Orleans disaster wiped out most of the recording studios in the region. This tragedy is not life-threatening. However, it is compelling. Our country is founded on the principle of stimulating creativity and innovation. Silence music and the arts, which rely on recording studios, and our country suffers. Of course, it doesn't take a hurricane to do that. In Iowa, we have the telecom and cable monopolies doing exactly the same thing.
Imagine a child, sitting at a computer. She plays a tune on her Kazoo. She clicks and can instantly play back that tune. She clicks again, and her tune is played back, with the sound of a piano. She clicks, and she can see her tune as a musical score. She can edit the notes, and change her tune. She can add instruments, and create an entire orchestra.
If the computer is nothing more than a low-end PC, and the software is freely available from Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, there is no good reason not to have a computer for every child in Iowa, the New Orleans region, or anywhere for that matter.
If every neighborhood had one, we could all be participating. And the cost? Free.
Shane Pressley needs a computer donated, so they can start a community-based recording studio in the New Orleans region. Can you help? We need two computers, one for Shane, and one for Iowa. Each time we work with a community outside Iowa, we also set up a community-based recording studio for Iowa.
You can learn more about this exciting project by visiting
http://www.studioforrecording.org/ or email us at tompoe@studioforrecording.org
