I updated my Hear Me page and associated spreadsheet today and can proudly announce – I have reached 50 hours of recorded contributions to the public domain! 50 hours and 16 mins, to be precise, (which I need to be with all that Pi in there.)
Think I might start counting the podcasts, too … okay, they don’t have that much of my voice in them, but it’s still audio I’m slaving over, and (incredibly) they do take longer than my own recordings.
Talking of podcasts, here’s my seventh: with super toe-tapping music this week, and an interview with the LibriVox “voice of Mark Twain”, John Greenman. Not that I DID the interview, I commissioned it. It’s called Delegation, you know. *wink*
Posted by Cori on March 17th, 2008 — Posted in My Recordings
My first recording in weeks … and is it the Gibbon I owe..? No. A bit of J.S. Mill..? Nope. More Elegaic Sonnets..? Unfortunately not.
It’s the first fifty digits of pi, read in a single breath (for one file) and in the World’s Most Awful Pirate “Accent” (separate file, and you’ll have to look it up if you care, I refuse to link such dreadfulness directly.) I’m not the only fruit-cake around, there are 54 other variations on the theme. Almost completely pointless (especially for people living in countries where the date will never read 3/14), but a huge amount of fun to put together. And if anyone ever DOES find a good use for this little lot, I’d love to know about it!
Should this, however, merely have whetted your appetite for number recitals, you can find a great recording of the first one-thousand pi digits in the Insomnia Collection. ’nuff said.
My latest solo work is finished. I post-processed Mathilda, by Mary Shelley, for Project Gutenberg (that is, smoothed the proofread pages into a single document, both plaintext and HTML) so was very familiar with it (and with Mary’s quirky spelling which I tried to keep intact in the final work.) I actually started reading this about a year ago, and recorded the second half of it last month — but I really wasn’t happy with the shift in quality, since I’d upgraded my microphone in the intervening time, and learnt to be a bit more patient in reading speed. So, here we go … a mournful tragedy:
Two things to note — although this story is about an incestuous relationship, it’s not salacious. If it were a musical, it’d be seriously Emo. Or, my grandmother could have listened to it without her hair curling. Second, anytime Mary writes “I will be brief”, you can be sure she’s about to be anything BUT brief. The runtime is somehow only 4hrs, though.
Posted by Cori on March 5th, 2008 — Posted in My Recordings
I saw this project get started, and was muchly excited … Yonge was a very popular author in her day, but I’ve never read any, and ought to remedy that. After hovering politely for a couple of days, I pounced happily on Chapter 1. Now it’s all finished, and I can download to listen to the rest. Since this is for children, and I know she wrote a lot for adults too, I’ll need to read some more of hers. Between Gutenberg and my local library, I can get 61 books by her (a little over half her writings.) Choosing will be difficult. Has anyone read anything else of hers..? Suggestions..?
Posted by Cori on March 1st, 2008 — Posted in My Recordings
I really hope the audio below works, because it’s been so long since I recorded this poem, that I can’t actually remember how it goes. Something about a river, and some nymphs? Checking back in the thread — David and I duetted this last May!
If you think our voices go well together, this is Good, because we’re currently working on a book of Elegiac Sonnets, alternating in similar style. Actually, that’s prolly not a bad thing to do with my afternoon — I can’t record, being the snuffle-nosed monster from Planet Snot … but I do have some old recordings which await a good editing.