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Category : Arts | Tags : poetry writing performance |
Things were a bit quiet so I podcast this one for something to do and to record how I heard the rhythm and rhyme when I wrote it.
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Standard Podcasts [0:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (4)I wish I was better at this. Or more here I make a secret wish, to hear Ray Winstone do this speech, I would die a happy man,
Standard Podcasts [0:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (25)I use free Audacity software for recording. It’s capable of much better than I do, fully optioned it is and ready to rock, I’m just not very good at it yet. Wordpress is a bit difficult about posting mp3’s without a paid upgrade so I use Podbean here which has never given me any trouble, free and easy and unobtrusive,
this recording has a little fiddle with digital effects including a slow fade in and out so don’t feel you need to turn the volume up straightaway,
Standard Podcasts [1:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (18)I left this sound real rough with the lowfi hiss because i want there to be just one sound left ringing in the listeners ear, not the last word, but a sound which kind of echoes through the final phrase and resonates in the ear’s memory,and it sounds like the cicadas and crickets too, insects sing,
Standard Podcasts [0:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (35)This is one of my favourites.
The Writer As Libertine.
Standard Podcasts [1:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (44)This is the kind of piece that maybe Sir Ian McKellan could a good job of.
Standard Podcasts [0:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (21)more like heffalump heartbeat…
i wonder if one day some lovely lady with a voice for reading to children without patronising them might come along and say that man’s poetry would be great, not the rude ones of course like this one which would require a different voice, ahh the internet, where dreams come true…
Standard Podcasts [0:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (21)As usual, I am finding this far more difficult than i thought it would be. The words on a page have so much room to be alive in the rhythm of your voice, there is so much room for you to hear so many subtleties, I feel like I am pinning butterflies to boards with a sledgehammer, the words…
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