Below are the 16 most recent journal entries recorded in Harold S.'s LiveJournal:

Monday, June 22nd, 2009
9:32 pm	Concertino 2009 - Home Safe I am home safely from ConCertino. It was a lot of fun and the concom ran a great event. Thank you to them for making my first time as a guest anywhere a wonderful experience. It was a nice drive and took a little longer than planned (traffic on Long Island (rush hour), delivering a songbook to my co-author on the one song in it that I actually assisted in writing and putting the recording studio back into its storage location (my parents house). More about the con, when I have a moment or two. I might even go thru the concerts and see what everyone did sing. (Time to get started on the transfer of the con recordings to a 2nd hard drive and THEN dinner.) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
10:43 pm	ConCertino 2009 Writing from the dead dog at ConCertino where I was Techno-Guest. Its been a fun weekend of lots of excellent concerts and open filk music. The concom were great and deserve a lot of credit for the wonderful job they have done running the convention. Thank you to madfilkentist and the rest of the ConCertino 2009 concom for inviting me as a guest. Once I heard the other guests of the convention, I would have been here anyhow. They did try to keep me out from behind the soundboard. They were somewhat successful. I ended up playing insta mic wrangler a few times. I didn't touch the sound board all weekend. I just was constantly swapping and downloading recordings from the Zoom H2 recordings. I produced a CD for the members of the con who paid for a premium membership and it turns out I did a LOT more than madfilkentist expected. Originally, it was supposed to have been a couple of songs from each guest. (Its grew as the audio was located.) :) 76 minutes of audio later, the convention has a CD. ONLY 50 copies exist (they ARE numbered) and I won't be printing more. 2 more copies will appear at interfilk auctions (including OVFF). Unknown on the other location to get it from the convention. In opening ceremonies, instead of performing, I contributed a recording that had been made of John Caspell, who was missed. I also ran a session on recording and editing audio. The recordings will need to be permission granted to be shared, but people did get to see what I see on the other side of the screen and a few features of what I know about in Audacity and Adobe Audition. Kathleen's concert was great. She called up Kathy Mar to assist on Dr. Anne Prather's Spiral Dance which the audience appeared to like. (Anne really needs to get some of her songs back into print.) Bill and Gretchen did a great concert with a number of their duets that don't have live versions in print. Apology was fun and they did cover a song that Bill posted in his LJ a couple of months ago, Cruising. (Thank you Katie for a line to start a good song.) Brooke's concert was a lot of fun and extremely good. John's presence was missed. Brooke did cover two songs that John had written. I look forward to finding more recordings of John to give her for John's family. (I know they exist, but not where they are located in the recordings.) The concom printed John's badge and provided that to Brooke (along with his copy of the Premium CD for his family.) She also as a new CD out with her and John on it. I know there was a memorial circle for both John Caspell and Lois Mangan, but I unfortunately was not able to attend it. A small number of shorter concerts occurred during the weekend from Kathy Mar, Judith Hayman, and Sassafrass. Kathy's concert was also for her CD/DVD release that officially happened this weekend. Sassafras had 5 of their 13? 14? members present and their concert showcased a few songs that will be on their next CD. They released a CD for the Con with some of the songs from the new CD and some reprints from their earlier CDs. Judith's concert was a nice introduction to her music. (I have not seen her concert before.) There also was a childrens' concert with Paul Estin, half next year's (Conterpoint) GOH Mary Ellen Wessels and Lady Bear. I was waking up at that time, but I did get to hear Lady Bear in open filk and she is fun to listen to. I did ask the performers how their concert went and they said it was good. I will have to see what turns up on the recordings. There were a lot of people who normally I only see at Worldcon or GaFilk attending the convention, including the other Guests of the convention. Kathleen, the Ropers and Brooke were wonderful in concert and in circle. I look forward to the next convention with any of them at it because I know its going to be a lot of fun and great music. Thank you to everyone for making my first time as a guest of a convention a great time! (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
7:55 pm	ConCertino... I am leaving as soon as this is posted. See everything there after midnight. 200 mile drive in wet weather... (Its easier than taking the ferry.) http://www.concertino.net (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
4:02 pm	Concertino 2009 CD 'Come Filking' song list As I have mentioned in the past (June last year), I am attending ConCertino 2009 as TechnoGuest. The convention is NEXT weekend. The convention web page is at http://www.concertino.net. As part of my contribution, since I am not a performer, but a tech, I put together a limited edition CD that will be given to the members of the convention who purchased a premium membership, but you can purchase an attending membership at the door. There are only 50 copies that exist and NO, I am not publishing any more. Here is the song list (and liner notes) that will be on the CD. 76 minutes of audio. --- Come Filking ConCertino 2009 Premium CD Guests of Honor - Bill and Gretchen Roper 01 Cruising Bill Roper (Bill & Gretchen Roper)7 02 Just Play Bill & Gretchen Roper (Bill Roper)1 03 Library Song Bill & Gretchen Roper 1 04 Sinister Walk Bill & Gretchen Roper (Bill Roper)1 05 Apology Bill & Gretchen Roper1 Interfilk Guests - Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell 06 Worm Herder Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville2 07 In a Histaminor Key Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville)2 08 It's Just So Nice When Someone Knows Your Name Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville)2 09 The Space Lasers May Already Have Penetrated My Tinfoil Helmet (Despite My Extensive Field Research) Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville)2 10 The Giant Squid Has Not Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell (Brooke Lunderville)2 11 Burn It Down John Caspell (Michelle Dockrey/Tony Fabris)3 Ghost of Honor - Lois Mangan 12 Ballad of Lois Mangan Judith Hayman/Lois Mangan (Mark Mandel/Percy Montrose)4 13 Come, Filking, Filking Lois Mangan/Kathleen Sloan/Heather Borean (Lois Mangan)4 14 The Phoenix Lois Mangan (Julia Ecklar)3 15 The Woad Ode Lois Mangan (William Hope-Jones/Traditional)4 16 The Hand of God Lois Mangan/J. Spencer Love/Gary McGath (Julia Ecklar)3 17 Carmen Miranda's Ghost Lois Mangan/Gary McGath (Leslie Fish)5 Toastmistress - Kathleen Sloan 18 Magic To Me Kathleen Sloan6 19 Catalog Queen Kathleen Sloan6 20 Discipline Queen Kathleen Sloan (Paul Kwinn)6 21 Spiral Dance Kathleen Sloan (Dr. Anne Prather)6 22 Meat Kathleen Sloan/Paul Estin (Kathleen Sloan)2 23 Take It Back Kathleen Sloan2 Performer (Composer, if different from performer) Thank you to Bill Roper, Brooke Lunderville, Paul Mangan, Ken Lalonde, and Gerry Tyra for contributing recordings for this CD. Thank you to everyone for permission to record your concerts and to use your songs. Kathleen's song “Meat” is based on Terry Bisson's short story “Meat”. More of Leslie’s songs are available at www.lesliefish.com Recording locations - 1 GaFilk 2009 / 2 Denvention 3 (Worldcon 2008) / 3 Practice session / 4 FKO 16 / 5 ConCertino '95 / 6 Fencon 2007 / 7 Recorded specially for this album Bill and Gretchen Roper's web page - http://www.filker.com Brooke Lunderville's web page - http://catfish.dhs.org/~happyfish/filk/ Engineered and published by Harold Stein for ConCertino 2009. Cover art by Jane Sibley MASSFILC logo by Virginia Taylor http://www.concertino.net http://www.nefilk.us Floating Filk Studios FFS-008 http://www.floatingfilk.com ---- Unfortunately, you can no longer get a premium membership for the convention. (Sorry, they will not be selling those at the door.) There WILL be copies donated to interfilk, so you will get a chance to get a copy at a filk convention some point in the future. I have uploaded a different take of "Take It Back" to the filk archive. The version of 'Meat' that is used on here is the same one that is on Paul Estin's 'Mind the Stopgap' CD. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
11:55 am	Concertino 2009 - Take It Back I just uploaded a copy of the Toastmistress's song "Take It Back" onto the filk archive. 'Take It Back' is the theme of their song contest. http://www.filkarchive.org.uk/cgi-bin/song.cgi?FileID=449 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
10:11 pm	Hall of Fame Inducties 2009 No, I am not at FilkOntario, I am at I-CON (NY) where I am running filk. (Maybe I will attend it next year.) I just wanted to say congratulations to the 2009 inductees to the Filk Hall of Fame - Frank Hayes and Erica Neely (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
11:25 pm	web page... Its actually updated... I finally updated my web page tonight. (I was planning on doing it last summer after Concertino announced me being a guest.) I added the cover and song list for Dr. Seti's new CD, 'Sing More Songs of SETI', which was officially released this weekend at Boskone, along with the cover and song list of Paul Estin's CD 'Mind the Stopgap'. These are the latest 3 CDs I have done audio engineering on. In addition, the Contata 2008 housefilk CD song list is now on my web page. 'Flying Stone - Doo-wop Version', which is on that CD has been on the filk archive since August 2008. I will see about more permissions to put songs from there on the filk archive. (Cover art is coming soon. Along with a couple of more songs to be uploaded onto the filk archive.) (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
2:02 pm	Filk song publishing - permissions question - opinions wanted A song I recorded for Roberta Rogow is a retelling of an urban legend. She mentioned that she had gotten the story from a book of Urban legends and did a retelling of that story as a filk song. What I am wondering is.... Should I be contacting the author of the urban legend book for permission to use the song on a CD or for posting to filk archive. Mostly the permissions I am wanting to get (and wondering if I need their permission) are permission to post the song to the filk archive (eventually) and for putting it on a filk CD. (Roberta's next CD being the main one planned for, but potentially a convention/compilation CD, too.) A copy of the CD(s) would be sent to the author as a standard thank you for permission and their archives if their permission is required. I do have the author's name and book name so I can try to contact them via their publisher (or the fanish community if a contact exists.) The song in question is 'The Woman in the Snow' which Roberta has performed at a few conventions including Worldcon 2008. Crossposted to FILK. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
1:02 am	OVFF 24 Home from OVFF. Good visit to Ohio. I am going back again next year. I ended up with a lot of CDs (most being relayed to a filk dealer @ Philcon.) My collection has a number of new CDs (and 5 cassette tapes including a couple I only previously had mp3s.) I ended up assisting all weekend with the sound crew. Fuzzyvanman was great to work with again. I am glad I was able to assist him out by mic wrangling. (yes, I am back next year to do the same over all 4 days.) Pegasus awards were wonderful. Congratulations to all of the winners. It was nice to put faces to the names I have been talking to on here for a while. Concerts (and one/two shots were wonderful.) A CD I put together for Contata 18 (2008) was donated to interfilk since I can't sell them and raised over $300. (I think the number was $325.) my jaw dropped when it cracked $200. I still have a few copies I owe for thank you copies (many were delivered over the weekend, so I am happy. The remaining to be delivered copies is down to 3 copies. (2 for replacement/problems with disc (one had an empty case!) and one more contributor copy.)) CDs released @ OVFF (or fairly new (aka since Worldcon in Denver)) - Jeff & Maya Bohnoff - Mobius Strip Graham Leathers - Bears All (this was out pre-worldcon, but I am not sure when in 2008 it released) Randy Hoffman (featuring Kira Heston) - More Vocals in the MOnitors OVFF GOHs - Tim and Anne Walker/Wilderwood - Dancing Through The Past Juliana McCorison - Not Just Lullabies from Planet Earth Paul Estin - Mind the Stopgap (CD-R released @ ConChord when he was an interfilk guest). He numbers his CDs and #42 was donated to interfilk. Reprinted - BOTH Duras Sisters CDs with 2 extra tracks on each CD. (4 new songs - Live recordings.) And a fundraiser for Duckon - DVD video (not audio) - Live from Duckon 16 - In Concert Murray Porath, Frank Hayes and Michael Longcor. (2007 Duckon) DVD Video (not an audio CD) - Acoustic Vs Electric (parody of the apple Mac/PC commercials) About an hour in length, from Duckon 2008. (I don't have the details off hand, but I believe its Rand and Adam English from Ookla the Mok.) Time for me to head to bed. I have to work in the morning. Current Music: Tim and Anne Walker - GOH concert from OVFF 24 (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
4:19 pm	2008 Pegasus Awards Ballot is Live! I just found on the pegasus awards site that the 2008 Ballot is Live! Congratulations to those nominated!!! http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/2008finalballot.html (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
10:00 am	Contata 2008 songs on YouTube A few weeks ago, I ran sound @ Contata. This morning, I found on my friends list, some links to songs from Contata by the group, Sassafrass. Link to their posting - http://community.livejournal.com/sassafrassmusic/2038.html They have one CD out and are working on their 2nd one. (The first CD is now only available as a 2nd printing on CD-R.) Their web page (with song samples.) http://adapalmer.com/sassafrass/index.html (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
11:47 pm	Live from New York CD - NYC Housefilk Sampler CD Just wanted to share the song list that was on the CD that everyone got @ Contata 2008. All members were given a copy. (This will save everyone the retyping time.) Thank you to everyone who gave permission for the CD to be published. Its is appreciated. It was a limited print run of 150 copies. Reprints are NOT planned. When I have time (a few weeks from now), a cover scan and this track list will appear on my web page. The track listing and liner notes: 1. Ho! For the Death of Time, Narf! – Joshua Kronengold, Batya Wittenberg, I Abra Cinii (Feld/Smith) 2:46 2. Jabbercroce – I Abra Cinii (Caroll/Croce, Arr. Cinii) 2:12 3. Dried Frog Pills – Batya Wittenberg (Wittenberg/Fish*) 1:43 4. Geist – Dave Weingart (Weingart) 2:11 5. Precious – Leah Smith (Smith/Trad) 1:03 6. Evil Is A Four-Letter Word, Too! – Batya Wittenberg (Leger/Fish*) 3:35 7. Grew It Myself – Joshua Kronengold (Kronengold/Sutton†) 2:00 8. Eat It Slow – Batya Wittenberg (Wittenberg/Faber) 1:23 9. Chocolate Jesus – Rennie Levine (Levine/Rush&Cromarty) 3:55 10. Banned from Pesach – Liam Browne (Browne/Fish*) 0:16 11. Fluorine Atom – Paul Estin (Estin) 4:23 12. The Old Issue – Batya Wittenberg (Kipling/Fish*) 2:55 13. Dollar Fifty Movies – Dave Weingart and the whole room (Bellavia/English/Hoffman) 3:52 14. Monster in the Lab – Joshua Kronengold (Kronengold/Trad) 2:04 15. Run Little Bird – Merav Hoffman and Batya Wittenberg (Hoffman/Wittenberg/McGuire) 3:01 16. Flying Stone (Doo-Wop Version) – I Abra Cinii and the whole room (Cinii) 6:17 17. A Gown Too Blue – Batya Wittenberg and Dave Weingart (Sutton) 4:03 18. Yielding to Temptation – Yehuda Porath (Mandel/Faber) 2:35 19. Swing Low, Sweet Double-A – I Abra Cinii and the whole room (Cinii/Trad) 5:54 Bonus tracks Recorded Live @ GaFilk 2008: 21. Man in the Moon and Time Travel – Team B – Greg McMullan, Nancy Louise Freeman, Larry Kirby (McMullan/Freeman/Kirby/Trad) 1:07 22. Broccoli and Fishing Pole – Team A – Mark Bernstein, Beth Runnerwolf, Judi Miller (Bernstein/Runnerwolf/Miller/Smith) 1:39 23. Instafilk response to previous 2 songs – Tom Smith (Smith) 2:12 * Please support Leslie Fish by visiting LeslieFish.com † Music copyright 1985 Bill Sutton / Mad Tom Music. Thank you to everyone for your permission to use your song(s) on this CD. Recording, Production, Editing: Harold Stein | Lots of advice for this CD: Merav Hoffman FFS-005 (8 Comments |Comment on this)
12:58 am	Concertino 2009 Since it was officially announced while I was busy running sound @ Contata 2008, I did not take the time to do more than a BRIEF check on everyone's LJs over the weekend. (And the occasional comment on my friend's LJs.) I will be attending Concertino 2009 as Techno-Guest. http://www.concertino.net/ The rest of the guest list for Concertino are - GOHs - Bill and Gretchen Roper Toastmistress - Kathleen Sloan Interfilk guests - Brooke Lunderville and John Caspell Ghost of Honor - Lois Mangan I know I am going to be looking forward to seeing all of them @ Concertino. They are worth the trip to see live! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
12:29 am	Contata 2008 Now that I am home from Contata (and backing up the recordings from the digital recorders running @ the con.) Contata 2008 - a project that has been at least 2 years in the making. (I have been a member of the Concom since I heard about the planning meeting @ Concertino 2006 which I was attending.) We ran this past weekend. It was great. I was behind the sound desk (and on the stage setting up microphones and running between rooms checking/changing the digital recorders) all weekend. When I did actually get a chance to sit down and listen to everyone (I think there was about 2-3 points during the weekend and during part of the dead dog.), it sounded great. The sound team who jumped in and helped out and did an excellent and commendable job (AND DESERVE A LOT OF CREDIT!!!!!) were http://jslove.livejournal.com/, Joe Kessleman and from England, http://fleetfootmike.livejournal.com/ (was on his 2 con tour due to a work conference in Chicago during the week between cons). THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!! You did a great job and deserve a standing ovation and a round of applause! I can confirm the con was recorded in all 3 rooms for most of the convention (dead dog/open filks might have had a song missed when equipment changes were occurring). The few concerts I actually DID hear (and not ran around like a headless chicken) were great. The Tom Smith Tribute was wonderful and had lots of songs (including a wonderful 5 part harmony on Falling Free.). I will be posting into the filk LJ what the song list for the concert was in the near future. LadyMondegreen ran a great con and was an invaluable help in getting out the housefilk sampler CD. Thank you for doing that. To answer the obvious - yes to sound crew for 2011. I will do it again. (Can you get me the same crew again? They were GREAT and were wonderful to work with.) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
4:55 pm	Update and CD available from Floating Filk Studios Wow! I am actually using this for a change... Its time for the once a year post.. :) Best way to reach me is still via email. I released a CD for Roberta Rogow back in August and NEVER advertised it online beyond emails to the dealers. Today, I came across a posting for people to advertise CDs and I finally got around to advertising Roberta's CD. I posted this in Filk, FilkNews and rec.music.filk. Ok. Time for me to finish updating the web page files. (2 songs (combined intro and music) are going up, updates to the recording locations on about page and a listing of KNOWN usage of my recordings. (Conterpoint 2007 Songbook CD, 2 FuMP songs, Dr. Seti's new CD.)) Harold --- "Roberta Rogow - Alive and Filking" is now available. Its a live album recorded at two of her 2006 concerts (Lunacon 2006 and Philcon 2006). Most of the songs have never appeared on Roberta's tapes. CDs are available directly from the following sources - Tales from the White Hart (Kathy Sands) - via email @ talwhi at earthlink dot net Dag - Filk.com - now in the store - http://www.filk.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16211&cat=0&page=1&featured Secret Empire (Dodeka/Bill Roper) - Cons only And of course, Roberta at conventions she is attending. (Philcon next week where she is running Filk). Web page (where I am going to go update and post some sample songs. Songs will be available tonight (after 9pm EDT, 10 Nov 2007)) is at http://www.floatingfilk.com. Song intros are separated from the songs themselves as a separate track. Song list is as follows - 1 & 2. DS9 Farewell (tune: ‘Jamaica Farewell’ by Erving Burgess) 3 & 4. Salute to a Lady (tune: ‘The Queen of Argyll’ by Andy M. Stewart) 5 & 6. Padme’s Lullaby (tune: ‘Layla Layla’ by Mordechai Zeira) 7 & 8. Darth Vader’s Confession (tune: ‘The Patriot Game’ by Dominic Behan) 9 & 10. Palpatine, He’s No Good! (tune: ‘You're No Good’ by Clint Ballard, Jr.) 11 & 12. Clones (tune: ‘Boots’ by Leslie Fish) 13 & 14. Selling the Rings (tune: ‘King of the Road’ by Roger Miller) 15 & 16. Do-Svidanya, Mir (tune: ‘Those Were the Days (Dorogoi dlinnoyu)’ by Gene Raskin & Boris Fomin) 17 & 18. The Little Rover That Could (tune: ‘The Little Engine That Could’ by Mark Mueller) 19 & 20. Pluto’s Degradation (tune: ‘Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ by Harold Spina) 21 & 22. The Flight of Apollo Thirteen (tune: ‘Ballad of Transport 18’ by Leslie Fish) 23 & 24. Warning: Dangerous Planet (tune: ‘Little Fuzzy Animals’ by Frank Hayes) 25 & 26. The Writer’s Revenge * (tune: ‘Sell a Lot of Beer’ by Bill Anderson, Brad Warren, Brett Warren) 27 & 28. Blind Date (tune: ‘She Never Cried When Old Yeller Died’ by Danny Mayo, Freddy Weller, Diana Rae) 29 & 30. Dragon Riding (tune: ‘Donkey Riding’ Traditional) 31 & 32. Meerkat Mad Love (tune: ‘La ci darem la mano’ from Don Giovanni, by W. A. Mozart) 33 & 34. Fact/Fiction (tune: ‘Both Sides Now’ by Joni Mitchell) All songs performed by Roberta Rogow. Guest appearance by Dr. H. Paul Shuch from the audience at Philcon on ‘Pluto’s Degradation.’ Current Music: Do You Dream of Electric Sheep? CD (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
3:24 pm	Actually using this thing.... Ok... This account was created for posting on other people's LJs. At the time, I needed a throw away name for something I was not going to use. Hence, the previous LJ name I used. Since then, its become something I regularly use. I have been thinking about changing this to what I normally go by for a while... I actually changed it today. I still will not be posting very frequently.... When I do, its likely going to be filk announcements of what is new out there. The fastest and best way to reach me is still via email. Harold (2 Comments |Comment on this)