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Music in the L Astoria Column Local fl utist Larkin Stentz will hold a CD release concert benefi ting the Friends of the Astoria Column Larkin Stentz, known to most North Coast residents as the owner, organic farmer and teacher of farming techniques at Green Angels Gardens on the Long Beach Peninsula, has an- other engaging talent — he is an extraordinary on three continents. in our area. At the end of last year, he and his technical team recorded an entire CD of songs in the Astoria Column. Stentz got the idea while listening one day Submitted photo “Inside the Astoria Column: Flute music through Larkin” is an album of fl ute music recorded inside the Astoria column this past August by Larkin Stentz.. Photo by Joshua Bessex needed at the Column and brainstorming ideas Larkin Stenz recorded a CD of fl ute music inside the Astoria Column in August. Stentz will have a release party at the Liberty Theater’s McTarvish Room on Sunday, Jan. 11. recording in the column. Then, after recording costs, they could use money from the sale of this cell tower and a number of other emergency shortwave,” Stentz says. me and a recording engineer, Alec Gear.” ing in an unusual location. old cloister in Boxmeer, The Netherlands,” zendall, and the resulting album is ‘Blossom in a marvel as it exalted sound, echo.” The cloister recording midnight and, in the same recording team knew they would need to hit the Col- umn at a time of relative quiet. So one evening they human ear but with the sensitive recording determined that they would need to record with all the lights turned off. The other challenge was the seven-second delay for sound inside the Column itself. one of the levels of the Col- umn to get a sense of what was best, and it turned out that the third level gave us sible tones,” Stentz says. So stories above. the session. 8 | January 8, 2015 | coastweekend.com 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11 McTavish Room, Liberty Theater 1203 Commercial St., Astoria www.liberty-theater.org ‘Playing in the dark meant that I was totally focused on the sounds I was creating and how they were coming back at me.’ would be a mysterious electrical hum inside the The raw cuts were sent to studio technician CD Release Concert 503-325-5922 $10 Horn’s recording in the Taj Majal. ish Room of the Liberty Theater in Astoria. The gathering is a chance for music lovers to hear the restoration efforts needed at the Astoria Column. the arts also listening to the echo, weaving my notes to- VISUAL ARTS • LITERATURE • THEATER • MUSIC & MORE in a duet with himself. The result of the recording Story by CATE GABLE