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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

ushering oneself into hyperreality

I have become one of the countless users of blogs. However, I hope this will help me keep everyone updated as to my travels (and thoughts) this summer. I can only apologize for the shortcoming of this somewhat less-than-personal medium.

a rough plan of my summer follows;

may 27: depart o-town for el paso, tx
june 1-7: backpacking grand canyon, monument valley, and four corners area
june 14: depart for cochabamba, bolivia and study at the maryknoll language institute - http://ideim.org/
july 31: depart bolivia for cusco peru and the salkantay trek to machu picchu - http://www.sastravelperu.com/english/alternativetreks.html#Salkantay
august 7: return to el paso, tx and decompress for a few days
august 12-19: work with no more deaths along the arizona-mexico border and put my emt license to good use - http://nomoredeaths.org/
august 23ish: return to omaha by car with emily via colorado

a side note;
the title "bbc radiophonic workshop" was chosen since it was obscure enough to not have been picked. But I will do my best to tie its obscurity into my own-this follows. They were one of the first studios to generate reverb in post-production. This required building a smooth-surfaced soundproof room in the basement of the workshop into which they pumped an unprocessed signal via speakers, allowed it to bounce around, and then picked up the subsequent mess with several microphones in various locations which allowed them to dial in the sound they desired. The inefficiency of this process seems parallel to my future attempts at the maintainence of this monstrosity.