Tape 1, side 1: August – Sept 1984 — Varmazis family in Iraklion, Crete. Latter part of Side 1 is from Dec. 1984, Jan. 1985 and March 1985. Dimitri sings Christmas songs from school. Costa plays with Maria, Katina chats with Maria, who is learning to speak.
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Tape 1, side 2.
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Costa tries to get Maria to speak. She babbles. Dimitri does not want to recite math problems for the tape recorder.
This was near the end of Costa’s one-year sabbatical, before M/A-COM offered him a permanent job. At one point Costa and I can be heard discussing his job options for the U.S. (none), and our return to Crete. He says he will have to push for university-sponsored housing [once we are back in Iraklion].
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We took a family vacation to New Mexico (mama, baba, D, me, E) in 2014. A few months before we spent time together around Christmas to plan out where we would go. I recorded that conversation, about an hour long, and here it is:
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Theia Anna was kind to let me borrow some cassettes of Theio Harry chanting in church. I just finished digitizing these cassettes tapes and have the audio available for everyone in a few different formats.
There were 2 cassette tapes, I’ve digitized each side separately. You can listen to the audio on this page and download the files directly if you’d like to save them for yourself. Each file is about 65MB (encoded at 192 kbps) and about 45 minutes long.
Tape 1: Father Costa, Theoharis Papayannis chanting- August 25, 1996
Side A: http://merakiedits.com/audio/orthros-liturgy-tape-1-side-a.mp3 (direct download)
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Side B: http://merakiedits.com/audio/orthros-liturgy-tape-1-side-b.mp3 (direct download)
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Tape 2: Theoharis Papayannis chanting (not sure when this was recorded or where)
Side A: http://merakiedits.com/audio/tape2-side1.mp3 (direct download)
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Side B: http://merakiedits.com/audio/tape2-side2.mp3 (direct download)
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I will upload the OGG-Vorbis versions of each file shortly, they are about 150MB each as they are lossless file formats, so it will take a little while to upload them all.
Please note that aside from some minor volume adjustments I have not modified the audio whatsoever. Since these are from a cassette, the audio starts and stops abruptly at the beginning and end of each file where the tape runs out. (I could have added fades but that seemed totally unnecessary.)