Volunteers outside the USA: Noel Coward died in 1973. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 50 years; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
This project is complete. Audio files may be found on our Librivox catalog page at https://librivox.org/the-vortex-by-noel-coward/Noel Coward explores the darker side of the roaring twenties in this early play. It focuses on an ageing beauty who uses affairs with younger men to keep her feeling relevant, and her son (originally played by Coward himself) who is back from Paris after a year performing as a pianist and acquiring a cocaine habit. Set in the effervescent world of the socialite set, with plenty of the wit and charm that Coward is known for, The Vortex is, nonetheless, a powerful depiction of people who struggle to be completely honest with themselves. (Summary by WendyKatzHiller)
Note: I will be reading the role of Florence
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210246/page/n8/mode/1up
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Magic Window:
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This paragraph is temporary and will be replaced by the MC with the list of sections and reader (Magic Window) once this project is in the admin system.
- Project Code: VumWTJ6p
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noël_Coward (Noel Coward)
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vortex
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 36
- Does the project have an introduction or preface: No
- Original publication date (if known): 1924
- If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog?
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Genres for the project: Plays; Plays/Drama
Keywords that describe the book: homosexuality, cocaine, twenties, mother/son
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
For individual roles:
Submit one file per act. At the beginning of the first file, say:
Leave 3-5 seconds of space between your lines (room noise, not generated silence)."Character, read by your name."
For narration/stage directions:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
At the end of each file say:"Act # of The Vortex, by Noel Coward. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org."
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of Act #."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Vortex, by Noel Coward."
Filename:
For individual roles: vortex_role_#.mp3 where # is the act number. (e.g. vortex_romeo_1.mp3)
For final files: vortex_#_coward_128kb.mp3 where # is the act number. (e.g. vortex_1_coward_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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MC to select: toddhw
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into a new post in this thread along with the file duration (mm:ss). Watch this thread for prooflistening notes.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.
