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My Neighborhood

I live now in Washington Heights, near Fort Tryon in the upper Manhattan island area. It’s informally called Little Dominican Republic (the Tony-award-winning musical “In the Heights” is based on this area of the island). I feel like a white girl, but know that there are a lot of other artists who choose this area to make their home. The rent is cheap(er) than normal, there are parks, I’m right near both the A and 1 train lines, and there’s a great community/family feel. I wish I was a little closer to Midtown, but all in all it only takesContinue readingMy Neighborhood

Editing a Vocal Demo

sierrarein.com/sierra/audio/mp3s/sreinvocaldemo.mp3 Experimenting with a vocal demo – comment away! I want to know about bad notes, redundancy, and length. I put this together with audio previously recorded from other projects. Eventually, I want to go into a studio and really RECORD a vocal demo – but I need something in the meantime to send to people as a suggestion of my vocal range, prowess and personal energy. It’s currently 3’44” but I’d like to get it down to 2’30” or less. -Si

E.B. White – “Here is New York”

Quote from E.B. White I’ve noticed several times on the billboards within the subway trains: “There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter–the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling citiesContinue readingE.B. White – “Here is New York”