Time to Calibrate

Mark your calendars: May 1st will be the first official podcast. I'm sending out tone as any good audio producer would do to make sure everything is calibrated for Saturday.

I guess this means I have made a commitment to doing this blog/podcast. There will be some old shows and some new but I hope each podcast will be interesting.

Thanks to Jimi for encouraging me to do something creative. I'm looking forward to this adventure.

Calibration

I'm doing a blog? I never thought I would be here but I am. 

I also thought that people who did blogs were under the illusion that they had something IMPORTANT  to say but really. . . Let's just say I was never enthusiastic about blogs. Everything changed after having dinner with my old friend Jimi- catching up on what's been happening the last 12 years since I last saw him- when he said "You should do a blog."

So I thought about it. I do not really have anything important to say. If I did do a blog it should have to have an unique angle at the very least not to mention a cool name. Kevin's blog? Vini's blog? I used to write a column called "Vini Vidi" but no. So I thought about my life and how much of it centered on the spoken word- years of Forensics/Debate- years of producing radio plays and audio shows. I'll start there.

One of the first things I learned in audio production ( in the analog years) was to place tone at the beginning of a reel of tape so that when it aired the playback calibration would be at its optimum.  Tone  is One Thousand Hertz. Welcome to One Thousand Hertz.

One Thousand Hertz (or OTH) is not merely a blog. Since the spoken word is so important to me, I've decided to have my blog be a podcast. It will be a place to post original productions from past radio projects (On Airotica, Rumor Mill and Pagliacci's Fools) and future productions. In time I would like to invite others to submit audio works to share. There are so few outlets for audio plays and spoken word producers on commercial or public radio so this is just a little blog providing an opportunity for people who enjoy creating spoken words pieces and for those who enjoy listening to them.

Soon I'll begin posting audio plays and other audio projects. Stay tuned.

So that's it. No special insights. No issues to discuss. Not that insights and issues will not be part of the blog because I believe artists are the true historians. 

My life is not that exciting but my imagination is limitless. It's time to calibrate. One Thousand Hertz.