Ridiculous Thoughts » The Kid http://www.ukmelia.com/ridiculousthoughts The ramblings of a slightly mad chick with far too much time on her hands :) Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:09:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 A lovely treat http://www.ukmelia.com/ridiculousthoughts/2009/10/18/a-lovely-treat/ http://www.ukmelia.com/ridiculousthoughts/2009/10/18/a-lovely-treat/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:58:34 +0000 Melia http://www.ukmelia.com/ridiculousthoughts/?p=709 Tonight I got to hear my daughter sing. I know to some that may not sound like a big deal, but for me, it is. She usually pleads shyness whenever I ask her to sing. Whether I’m belting out music in the car or just bopping around the house, she gets all shy and reticent.

But apparently the key was having her boyfriend ask her to sing for him. He had been asking her to sing for him too and she was playing the shy card with him as well, I think. But when she ran out of present ideas for his birthday, she decided she’d relent and record herself singing one of her favourite tunes: Russian Lullaby.

She downloaded Audacity and taught herself how to use it to create three versions of herself singing the same lines and layering them so it sounded like she was singing in a round. It came out fantastic and not only am I proud of her for doing it but as a geeky editor, I’m proud of her for creating and editing the whole thing herself.

I don’t have a really good way to record it and share it so I jerry-rigged some mics and earphones together on my craptop to make this AudioBoo. yes, she gave me permission to post it. I think she’s pretty proud of it too :)

Listen!

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Because I’m me, here’s some pix and video from today :)

onthewayunk football dormroom dormview

Outside her dorm:

A tour of her room:

Trying to make her loft bed:

The fun happening at the weekend :)

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