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DEDICATION by Douglas M. Flynn: This musical memoir is dedicated to my family and friends who have fuelled my passion for singing through their encouragement and support. I'd like to especially dedicate this to the memory of a friend, musical director Frances Keen, whose last words to me were "keep singing Doug, you have a gift... use it."
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: All the songwriters whose songs I have adopted and adapted; the Good Lord, who has allowed me the opportunity of spending my retirement years singing (and fishing!); my wife, Lorraine, for her constant, loving support and insights; my son David, and Barbara, for always sharing my desire to perform; my son Joel, and Lorena, for their creative inputs into the title and cover design; Bev Armstrong for graphic and layout design; my daughter Monica, and Brian, for their production and musical skills, and vocal backups; and Lois Wiley, for her keyboard accompaniments. Without Monica and Brian's persistent efforts this project would never have materialized.
Making this recording of some family favourite songs was inspired by my two grandchildren, Luke (18 years) of Campbell River (now UBC) and Alexis Elizabeth (8 months) of Fort Greely, Alaska. CDs will be available by donation. After production costs, any proceeds will go to charitable organizations.
– Gone Fishin', Doug Flynn, September 2006
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Earlier in 2006, Doug's son Joel created an "enhanced podcast" as the keystone piece of an extensive Master of Applied Science thesis at SFU's School of Interactive Arts & Technology:
https://soundcloud.com/podstream/big-fish-desolate-sound
The point of this digital media artifact was to show how value could be created by reframing bits and pieces of digital culture - even stuff considered to be of poor audio quality, or "junk" - by pulling it all together as part of a narrative. Several songs from the yet-to-be-released "Desolation Sounds Vol. 1" were featured in this audio-based story, and the thesis defence took place not-coincidentally on a St. Patrick's Day (March 17, 2006).
https://www.academia.edu/1320506/Travels_in_Intertextuality_the_autopoetic_identity_of_remix_culture
As the thesis concerned interactive narrative and the emerging practice of "remix", as well as the perceptual construct of "identity", this digital artifact attempted to tell a story similar to the one in Tim Burton's "Big Fish". This was done by sampling clips from the 2003 film as well as the 1967 NFB short film "Fisherman's Fall" about Campbell River's fly fishing author Roderick Haig-Brown. Both the thesis and the related podcast resulted from Doug having donated his Haig-Brown book "Fisherman's Summer" to his son for what unknowingly turned out to be important research purposes!
https://www.academia.edu/658702/Fishermans_Eyes_An_analysis_on_experience_design_the_fishing_experience_and_the_work_of_Roderick_Haig_Brown
In the original enhanced podcast, these samples and songs featured images, text, and links that were embedded right into the audio file in order to add context through Apple's M4A format that were not possible using audio-only format's like WAV, AIFF, and MP3. Unfortunately, that additional contextual information and interactive capability while listening is not available here on a SoundCloud stream, but the entire thesis document can be linked instead (see above)... if you have lots of time to read it! :)
Since then, the Flynn family work has led to more singing and music and podcasting and fishing!... well as a proposal for research in "narrative ecology"...
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_surXE4bpCBTfhGc9xx_duni-HBR04JszUumvXauvY8/edit?usp=sharing
a video of a fishing trip... https://vimeo.com/2787265
and some audio from that day... https://soundcloud.com/podstream/ipod-microphone-phone-test
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