Nyakyusa

55!!!! Wait… only 55????

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

That’s the ping pong match going back and forth in me right now.
On one hand, I’m excited that 55 cassettes were taken by 5 different Nyakyusa pastors today.  It is progress.  It is God’s Word going out in a form that makes it accessible to more people.  It is an accomplishment that I should be [...]

Most Excited

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

I can say that right now is probably the most exciting time work-wise since I started in the language project well over a year ago.  I’ve got nine completely recorded audio books of the Bible, not counting the two books already released in the Sangu language.  NINE!!!  Wow.  Ruth and Jonah make up eight of [...]

Lʉtɨ and Joona

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Yesterday, I finished the master CD and cassette for Ruth and Jonah in the Nyakyusa language.  Take a listen:
Ruth

Jonah

Infamous sentence

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

This is the audio I spoke of yesterday:
Nyakyusa sentence
Good news is that after listening to it, our Partnership Coordinator, a Nyakyusa pastor, said the edit was sufficient and that we don’t need to have the original Ruth come in after all.  That’s awesome.  Now, it’s time to plan a time for community testing to see [...]

Oh, so close

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

I didn’t have anything really planned for the day.  I’ve given that up a while ago.  I get up each morning and let the day come to me, to see what is possible to be done that day.  I need another set of master cassette copies of Hapo Mwanzo (The Beginning) which are Genesis stories [...]

Uh, has anybody seen my week?

Friday, August 7th, 2009

It’s exactly how I’m feeling sitting here on Friday evening.  Wasn’t yesterday Monday?
This has been by far my most active week in that I made seven different trips to the office to pick up people to speak on recordings.  The highest was four in one day, Wednesday.  Couple that with a couple of shopping trips [...]

Upcoming newsletter excerpt

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

The following is an article set to appear in our 2nd quarter newsletter which is about to be released:
This was a CRAZY busy quarter in terms of all the things I’ve been able to do.  Let me begin by addressing the preview items from last quarter’s newsletter.
The Nyakyusa recordings will be tested and distributed. We’re [...]

Ad, Advert, Advertisement

Friday, May 8th, 2009

No matter what you call it, I have finished seven of them. The radio station is scheduled to cycle through the set playing one at 7am and one at 7pm everyday for a month starting today. Here’s a summary of what you can hear in the ads posted below:
1-6 sec : Language specific [...]

Imeisha

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

It is done.

Pastor Gordon M. speaking the narrator sections of RUTH and JONAH
Yesterday was a great day, especially in light of what happened Tuesday night. 60 hours after my studio was broken into, we recorded the last word for the RUTH and JONAH in the Nyakyusa language. It was very gratifying to be [...]

Ardour2 did me well

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Ardour2 is a native-running Mac OSX Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).  I can attest that it can run with the big boys.  Until yesterday, I considered my best DAW software to be Adobe Audition, but unfortunately it only runs on Windows.  So, in order to use my firewire interface from my mixer, I have to run [...]