Dedications
Furnia - Prelude
Furnia - Prelude was originally written purely for my grandchildren and so is
therefore dedicated to them - all five at the latest count.
Furnia - Fugue
Audacity sound editing software was used to produce these audio books.
I was first introduced to Audacity in 2009 by John Kelly, who gave me the
confidence to start using it, at the Orpheus Centre in Godstone, Surrey where I still
work as a volunteer. Without this happening, I would never have been able to
produce these audiobooks.
In 2009 we were working in a class teaching young disabled adults to write,
develop and record podcasts. There was a problem because the finished piece
was too long, yet we had a piece of specially recorded music - about eight bars of
instrumental followed by four bars of singing - that needed to be fitted in
somehow. John asked me to see what I could do and, fortunately, he liked the
solution I came up with.
John encouraged me to start teaching the students how to use Audacity and I knew
I was getting it right when one of the students I had taught (LB) was in turn able to
teach a third student how to use it.
“Furnia - Fugue” is therefore dedicated to John Kelly, Musician and Disability Rights
Activist.