{"id":613,"date":"2016-01-18T21:49:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T02:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2019-05-24T18:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T22:22:53","slug":"found-sound-summer-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/found-sound-summer-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Found Sound: Summer 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across another box of Reel-to-Reel tapes in the basement a few months back. One box titled <strong>&#8220;Instruments of Peace&#8221; (Recording Session) 4-Channel<\/strong> caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>So this edition of Found Sound takes us back to the Summer of 1979.\u00a0 At that time, I was part of a singing group called &#8220;The Instruments of Peace&#8221; (IOP).\u00a0 Originally formed in 1977 with the encouragement of Dick Bumpass and under the auspices of the Baptist Student Union of the Annapolis area, IOP went through several iterations and I joined the group in the summer of 1978.\u00a0 We sang at a variety of venues and presented concerts of Christian musical styles from classical to contemporary. We arranged and recorded many of our own accompaniment tracks, but also presented a few selections <em>a capella<\/em>.\u00a0 One in particular was an arrangement of the Spiritual &#8220;My Lord What A Morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1979, we decided to do a recording of some of the selections in a &#8216;session&#8217; held at the Glen Burnie Baptist Church.\u00a0 I recall the sanctuary had pretty nice acoustics and they had just installed a custom built mixing board that was quite advanced at the time.<\/p>\n<p>So, I fired up the ol&#8217; TEAC deck, cleaned the heads, threaded the reel and prepared to transfer the session from 35 years ago to the computer.\u00a0 It took a couple of tries due to the TEAC acting temperamental, but it&#8217;s almost 40 years old!<\/p>\n<p>I was pleasantly surprised with the sound.\u00a0 So I thought I&#8217;d share.<\/p>\n<p>I created a lyric video, partially because I wanted to try my hand at it by learning a new technique with a program called &#8216;Blender&#8217;.\u00a0 I used some licensed stock sunrise footage and did some custom graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>The Instruments of Peace (at the time of this recording):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jenny (Cheston) Francis &#8211; Soprano<\/li>\n<li>Amy (Cheston) McMonigle &#8211; Alto<\/li>\n<li>Amy (Hunter) Stoddard &#8211; Alto<\/li>\n<li>Richard Strickland &#8211; Tenor<\/li>\n<li>Doug Jackson &#8211; Bass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Lord What A Morning - Instruments of Peace\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iw1Yyz-P9QM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across another box of Reel-to-Reel tapes in the basement a few months back. 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So this edition of Found Sound takes us back to the Summer of 1979.\u00a0 At that time, I was part of a singing group called &#8220;The Instruments of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","category-media","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}