Author name: Alma Drake

Normalizing

There’s a function in recording software called normalize.  It does some kind of magic to bring a track into a more uniform volume level, mostly by boosting what’s too quiet to bring it more in line with everything else. Sometimes it’s great. Sometimes it’s terrible. Sometimes it does nothing at all. But it got me to

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Baby Steps

On Tuesday, April 20, a jury in Minnesota defied our weary expectations and convicted a White police officer of murdering a Black man.  Let the bells cry hallelujah! Justice is not dead! When confronted with overwhelming evidence, they didn’t turn a blind eye and do the thing we feared they would do, and they deserve

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