Because that Bierce piece was just too serious, here's Mr. And Mrs. Spikky Sparrow, by Edward Lear.
The Boarded Window, by Ambrose Bierce. It's a short story (12 minutes) by Ambrose Bierce. If you haven't read any Bierce, be warned that Bierce likes to write seemingly benign stories that give you a nasty start.
I'm still experimenting with recording. This time, I recorded in a fairly noisy room, and then used the "noise removal" feature of Audacity to see what it could actually do. The resulting recording seems a little tinny to me. I really wish I knew more about recording. Time to find a comfy chair, and start reading the podcasting book that was handed to me this week at work.
Sarah, reciting I Ate Too Much
Calico Pie, by Edward Lear.
On the technology front, I saw someone recommend Audacity, and decided to give it another try, and I'm very very pleased. I have been using HackTV, which is fairly nice, but a little too simple, and requires too many additional steps. It records .mov files, which I then have to import into iTunes and export as mp3 files. Not only is this an additional step, but I end up with 3 copies of the recording which I have to then go clean up.
Audacity seems to make a better recording, too, for some reason, and exports directly to mp3.
Calico Pie is a poem we used to read at Turi, so I actually did quite a bit of it from memory, which surprised me. I'm always amazed at how poems stick in my brain for years and years after I last heard/recited them.
Just to give you a quick preview of what I'm working on for later this month, here's
A Christmas Carol, stave 1, preview recording.
I've heard a number of recordings of ACC, and I don't really like any of them. Patrick Stewart's is pretty good, but it's abridged. There are several complete recordings, but none of them seem to know what the book is about.
For those of you who have been listening to the Edward Lear recordings, sorry for the interruption. ;-)
