I'll bet that's a fascinating recording to listen to! I wish I had
such a treasure. As to southern accents, the recordings of my
husband speaking as a child always crack me up because he sounds like
he crawled out from underneath some extremely southern rock. lol
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Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA
--- In Hugh Livingston
<> wrote:
>
> My grandmother took an old (well, modern at the time!) Sony
cassette
> deck with her while on a riverboat down the Nile in the mid-1970s.
> She recorded audio letters home to me and my brother, replete with
> interviewing bizarre people she met and asking them to send
messages
> to us. All the while you can hear the engines chugging in the
> background and kids calling out from the shore as the boat passes.
> Quite an evocative experience. I have used the material in my sound
> art work several times.
>
> Also, it turns out from family recordings that I had a really
strong
> Southern accent when I was 6.
>
> Thank goodness for the audio record.
>
>
>
> --
> Hugh Livingston
> El Mirador
> 491 Crescent Ave #304
> Oakland Calif 94610
> (510) 205-HUGH
> www.livingstonsound.com
>
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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