gingatao

Teardrop Tattoo (2) (podcast)

gingatao — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:13:36 +0000

My original plan for this podcast site was a place where I could come to be as crazy as I wanted cos noone would ever listen to it. Which allowed me to develop an ability to sound a little bit punchdrunkier than I am. Today for instance I am perfectly sober.

This is one take no rehearsal and I’ve never listened to it, so we are both taking a chance, almost live, hahaha,

The words,

(2 minutes 16 secs)

antihaiku #4 (podcast)

gingatao — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:20:14 +0000

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.

The words

(37 secs)

night sky prayer,

gingatao — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:17:24 +0000

This is the first time anyone else has ever recorded one of my poems so it is very special to me. And also it is magically wonderfully incredibly gorgeously beautiful.

The words.

Live at the Orchid Room (1)

gingatao — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:15:48 +0000

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,

and the seven seas,

gingatao — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:55:00 +0000

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,

eponymous ‘pistomology of tigger

gingatao — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:15:02 +0000

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,

The Writer As Libertine

gingatao — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:37:51 +0000

This is one of my favourites.

The Writer As Libertine.

Live Jazz In The Orchid Room

gingatao — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:31:00 +0000

This is the kind of piece that maybe Sir Ian McKellan could a good job of.

Words

Butterfly Heartbeat

gingatao — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:17:06 +0000

more like heffalump heartbeat…

the words

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…

Argentine Tango

gingatao — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:08:02 +0000

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…

Argentine Tango

antiblog number sorry

gingatao — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:08:30 +0000

cant help myself,

antiblog the script

I Am Old. (F.’s song)

gingatao — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:45:44 +0000

words…

I Am Old.

fishing in a dry country,

gingatao — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:54:59 +0000

continuing our exploration of the one take live feel, one day i am going to add compression to these files and your ears will tremble, woohoo, i mean continuing our exploration of the not quite surreal lens where the borderline between babble and brook is indistinct, between genius and madness more vague still,

the voids, in german accented english, mel brooks style, the words,

fishing in a dry country,

flat grey abstract

gingatao — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:09:36 +0000

i can crank the performance aspect up and down, i am never sure, so I have decided one take live into a unfiddled microphone for now and see what happens,

the words…

flat grey astract

The Insanity Clause.

gingatao — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:32:47 +0000

Pretty self explanatory, I reckon.

the words…

The Insanity Clause.

The Poetic Voice

gingatao — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:13:36 +0000

Who’s mad idea was it to give me one of these machines. I am enjoying it so much I must be mad, hahahahahah,

the words… The Poetic Voice

not pygmalion (2)

gingatao — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:04:03 +0000

check out the groovy effects, i think i need a bass player,

the text,

not pygmalion

Red Rose Tattoo

gingatao — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:35:23 +0000

The most critical of feedback is welcomed as warmly as the applause.

The words…

Red Rose Tattoo

Over Before It Began.

gingatao — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:10:19 +0000

One take, no fiddling,

here’s the words

Over Before It Began

Monday Night In The Orchid Room

gingatao — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:25:40 +0000

I recorded this one a few times and decided on this version, not too acterly but acterly enough so people can hear whats going on, maybe? I can put the microphone further away and do it louder, more animated, more acterly, but I like a quick rhythm obviously. I know everybody says slow down, articulate, talk like a poet, but anyone could do that,

oh here is the script, opening in another window, Monday Night In The Orchid Room