Internship Entry 5 — March 23

Real quick shout-out to the Medium Workers Union.

Yesterday was different. I knew that Amy, the other intern in the studio on Tuesdays, was recording. I didn’t know that she had asked another intern, Jimmy, to assist. I met Jimmy on my way into the studio, as we had arrived at precisely the same time.

The three of us spent half an hour getting the microphone and headphones working, and the next two hours recording Amy’s vocals. At one point, she was struggling to hit a low F#, so on a whim I said “I can hit that note” and suddenly I was in an isolation room recording backing vocals for a song I hadn’t heard until that day. The song was called “You’ve Got A Lot To Learn”.

We spent the rest of the shift recording acoustic guitar for one of Jimmy’s songs.

I asked at one point how recording worked if you were an intern. They said that if it’s for a project, you can do it for free as long as it’s all planned out. A seed has been planted. I’ll ask whoever’s in Friday about that.