ShiNeko wrote: ↑December 24th, 2021, 2:56 pm
If you are still up for this, I wish to BC this Poetry Project. But for the paucity of Russian speaking volunteers it can be active for a month. First things first, we should choose a poem to record, before creating a project.
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I personally find this one rather short. Even the disclaimer might be longer than this one or at least have about the same duration which makes it not that pleasant to listen to multiple times. Would have chosen something a bit longer like "Пророк" by Pushkin. But I am open for more offers.
You've convinced me that it's a dumb idea, and that there isn't much enthusiasm for it
I've since rerouted my energies elsewhere. If someone starts a multi-version poetry project for a poem that appeals to me, I might contribute. But there are so many gaps in the catalog here that probably should be filled before that. There is hardly any Chekhov, Gogol, many others that both native Russian listeners and second-language learners might appreciate.
Poetry is nice for newbie readers such as myself because the meter makes it easier to deal with the pre-revolutionary orthography (which tbh still trips me up when I try to read it out loud in prose). And it's usually short. So it's a bit less intimidating than some of the current open projects. the Афанасьев collection is pretty frightening. I read it as a kid (in a different edition, Soviet-era) and don't remember it being quite this hard.
You're right that О сколько нам открытий... is short, but FYI, the English multi-version recordings of poems use a shortened disclaimer, created for this specific purpose:
[TITLE] by {AUTHOR}, read for librivox.org by [your name].
Here's an example of how these work:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=90360
And there are over a thousand of these in the catalog, if you want to hear the finished ones. I promise, they are fun. But, as I said, I've given up and moved on to other things, so we can drop this.