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Our students' work exemplifies the department's unique approach to blending the art and science in audio in the context of an educational program.

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Kirsten Lies-Warfield: All By Myself

Kirsten Lies-Warfield: All By Myself

"Recorded 2021-2022 at my home studio in Brentwood, Maryland. Thanks to those in the audio technology program at American University, both faculty and students, for teaching me so much. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I knew I wanted to do something.

I wrote "Washing is how the day begins" in my final year in the United States Army Band, “Pershing’s Own.” This is how I process the trauma of what happened to me there, * the gaslighting, the marginalization, the isolation and the betrayal. My workplace had become a somewhere that I could not exist, and yet I had to. I could not speak, I could only cry, surrounded by former friends who would not help even though they had ascended to the highest enlisted ranks. I endured two years like that and made it to retirement where I can freely reap the blessings of that retirement, one of which is the GI Bill that paid me to go back to school at American University and create this album. 

This is also a new and improved version of this piece which saw its premier at the International Women’s Brass Conference in 2019."

Track 7. Washing Is How The Day Begins

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Track 7. Washing Is How The Day Begins

All By Myself full track list

  1. Swarm
  2. Mangabey Rag
  3. State of Play
  4. Three Calls by Brad Edwards
    Mystery
    Frenzy
    Serenity
  5. Natural Skin
  6. Winter’s Exile, text by Robert Bland
  7. Washing is how the day begins
  8. Consummation

Vertically Spaced Microphones

Wyatt BalaEddy: Vertically Spaced Microphones

Wyatt BalaEddy demonstrates different orientations for recording via vertically spaced microphones.
 

Videos in this playlist

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  1. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Piano One 2.5' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  2. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Piano One 5' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  3. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Piano Two 2.5' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  4. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Piano Two 5' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  5. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Marimba 3' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  6. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Marimba 6' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  7. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Xylophone 3' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  8. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Xylophone 6' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  9. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Acoustic Guitar 1.5' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  10. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Acoustic Guitar 3' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  11. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Drums 4' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  12. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Drums 8' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  13. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Acoustic Guitar and Drums 2' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  14. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Acoustic Guitar and Drums 4' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  15. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Mandolin, Cello and Trombone Trio 6' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  16. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Mandolin, Cello and Trombone Trio 12' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  17. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Violin, Cello and Trombone Trio 6' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique

  18. Vertically Spaced Microphones

    Violin, Cello and Trombone Trio 12' | Vertically Spaced Stereo Microphone Technique