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I was driving by the old Mushroom Studios across from False Creek not long before Si left us. We were going somewhere with the family and the light was red so we were stopped there for a minute. I got a bit of a pang – thinking back to the old days. I told the girls, that’s where we recorded the first Uzume CD, Chirashi, way back in the stone age, on TAPE! Gary produced it and Simon was the engineer. And that of course got me thinking and remembering. Those were happy times, exciting times, making an honest-to-goodness CD. We felt so grown-up; me and Eileen and Leslie. We spent long hours on the floor with Si, getting the sounds of the drums just right. Takeo Yamashiro was there too, and Theresa Kobayashi. . . Then we spent many more hours in the soundbooth listening and editing. My clearest memory is of Si cutting two and a half extraneous minutes out of my piece “Q” armed with only a tape machine and a razor blade. If he screwed up there was no control-z, no way to undo it. He listened to the recording a couple of times, determined where it should be cut, made two marks with a grease pencil, cut out what seemed like two miles of tape and spliced the two ends together. We listened back - it was perfect. Seamless. At that exact moment I realized that Si was a true wizard. Not a Harry Potter-type make-believe wizard, but a real wizard, someone who could shape time at will.
We made more records afterwards, but it wasn’t the same. As they say, you always remember your first time. Years later digital became king and it was quicker and easier than analog, but it sure as hell wasn’t better. At least not when it came to the sound.
And now here we are. Mushroom has been sold, moved to Toronto I heard. And Si, well, we know how that ended.
One more little memory . . . Si sold me my first computer, a PC. He was doing that in those days - taking custom orders, buying the components and assembling them for clients. So he asked me what I was going to do with it. Mostly text editing and writing I said. What about the internet? he asked. Oh, I won't be needing that, I said . . . what the heck would I use THAT for? It makes me laugh now remembering that conversation.
Right around the time Si passed away I finally made the move from PC to Mac after fifteen years as a graphic designer. I wish Si was still around, and we could argue the various merits of Mac vs. PC. The program for his Celebration of Life was designed on a Mac. How about that . . .
It was so amazing to be at Performance Works last night, surrounded by so many old friends and acquaintances from all walks of life. If there is a tribute to Si, it is that he could bring together so many disparate people in the spirit of love and remembrance and, yes, celebration. The Life of Si. He would have loved it.
John Endo Greenaway
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The Dark Side
groucho: yo
travis: yo
groucho: as eric says, i went to the dark side
travis: you bought a mac?
groucho: ya
groucho: and i hate it already
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Don’t read statistics. How do you know what end of the spectrum you’re at? You don’t. The only truth is now. Everything else is science fiction.
Simon John Garber - May 2, 2013
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