COMPLETE - Weekly Poetry: The Song My Paddle Sings, Johnson

marlodianne · Post by **marlodianne** » February 9th, 2006, 12:17 pm

Here's Mine:

http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0O6F70J8D44GH3GQIZ6FQA9AAF

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » February 9th, 2006, 12:25 pm

marlodianne wrote:Here's Mine:

http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0O6F70J8D44GH3GQIZ6FQA9AAF

oooh, thank you... another lovely recording =)

BubbleDragon · Post by **BubbleDragon** » February 9th, 2006, 3:33 pm

Here's mine: http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0YHOBC1BCI68W2ON9NYHQNXAL4

This is one of my first recordings. Please let me know if something is awry. I had previously been told that my recordings were soft, but this sounds perfectly loud to me. This is a beautiful poem, I hope I did it justice.

~Sara

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » February 9th, 2006, 4:05 pm

BubbleDragon wrote:Here's mine: http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0YHOBC1BCI68W2ON9NYHQNXAL4

This is one of my first recordings. Please let me know if something is awry. I had previously been told that my recordings were soft, but this sounds perfectly loud to me. This is a beautiful poem, I hope I did it justice.

~Sara

Thank you Sara, you also did a very nice job with this poem... everything sounds great with good volume =)

VickiB · Post by **VickiB** » February 9th, 2006, 10:37 pm

Ohhh. My first recorded poem. Hope it's alright.

I had a bit of trouble getting the filename correct. I kept running out of room, so I had to drop _johnson. Is that okay?

http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=17LYCJW9SIDB60LNDBYZ4OQSV5
- Vicki Barbour

RobertG · Post by **RobertG** » February 10th, 2006, 12:25 am

VickiB wrote:Ohhh. My first recorded poem. Hope it's alright.

I liked your reading, Vicki. I think ol' Eugene Pinto would like this recital, too. The poem can be approached many ways-- boisterous and tumultuous and loud, like a Class IV rapid or soft and gentle like an eddy out in the river's bend. Yours was gentle and you have a pleasant reading voice.

From a technical standpoint, I found the recording level to be low. You might want to experiment with your mic's input levels. Often times, readers will turn the volume down because it startles them to hear their voice so loud. But it is always easier for a listener to turn down the volume on a loud recording than it is to turn up the volume on a very soft recording. You can only turn it up so far!

I can't speak to the file name problem you encountered and I'm not familiar with the YouSendIt web site. But I'm sure our excellent librarians here will have the answer!

Great first poem reading, Vicki! You're a natural!

Robert

VickiB · Post by **VickiB** » February 10th, 2006, 7:01 am

Thanks Robert.

Lots of gret advice there. I'll turn that mic up next time! I'm a MAC user and my mic is built in so I'm on top of the computer when I read. I'm going to get an external one and that should help the levels as well.

And thanks for the compliment on my voice. I think I sound like a little girl. But c'est la vie.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » February 10th, 2006, 7:41 am

Vicki Thank you for your recording... yes, Robert is right on.... you have a really lovely reading voice... we look forward to hearing more from you =)

No worries about the file name... thanks for letting me know =)

RobertG · Post by **RobertG** » February 10th, 2006, 10:01 am

VickiB wrote:I think I sound like a little girl. But c'est la vie.

Ah yes, but what a life it is!

I don't know if you're familiar with the sound of your own voice but the first time a person hears themself from outside of their own head, it is very disconcerting. We don't sound the way we thought!

It can get worse, of course. I remember the first time I observed myself speaking and demonstrating in a video production... ::shudder::

But I definitely did not think you sounded like a little girl. Looking forward to hearing more!

Robert

suburbanbanshee · February 10th, 2006, 10:36 am

Apparently, Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha's name was pronounced "GAH-deh-lee Deh-GAH-quee-tah", and she was a Mohawk, too.

So if this lady's Mohawk name was Tekahionwake, I'm guessing it was pronounced "Deh-GAH-hee-on-wah-geh".

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » February 11th, 2006, 6:50 pm

I don't have a reader name (or url if any) for the following files:

song_my_paddle_sings_johnson_kyo.mp3
song_my_paddle_sings_johnson_sdw.mp3 (Sue?)
song_my_paddle_sings_johnson_ss.mp3 (Sara?)

Just let me know how you would like to appear to the world =)

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » February 12th, 2006, 11:22 am

The preliminary catalog page is here:
http://librivox.org/song-my-paddle-sings-by-e-pauline-johnson/
please review it for errors. thanks =)

kayray · Post by **kayray** » February 21st, 2006, 10:37 am

Whoops, I forgot to podcast a randomly-chosen version last Sunday! But I did it just now:

http://librivox.org/index.php?p=268

Lovely reading Patricia!