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carlesroset
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Los col·loquis de la insigne ciutat de Tortosa, by Cristòfol Despuig (1510 - 1574)
In this Renaissance dialog three male characters talk about many different subjects that would be important in the time this text was written, the sixteenth century, in the city of Tortosa: history, religion, society, customs, catalan language, economy... Along the book the characters walk across the streets of the city and the conversation deals with subjects they have around and everyone of the six chapters take place in a different route. (Summary by )
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.lluisvives.com/obra-visor/los-colloquis-de-la-insigne-ciutat-de-tortosa--0/html/

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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.
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Genres for the project: General Fiction/Published 1800 -1900

Keywords that describe the book: renaissance, dialog, local history, erasmism, catalan language history

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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs

Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.

For the first section, say:
"Section (or Chapter) # of Los col·loquis de la insigne ciutat de Tortosa. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Los col·loquis de la insigne ciutat de Tortosa, by Cristòfol Despuig. Section Title."
For the second and subsequent sections, you may use the shortened intro if you wish:
"Section (or Chapter) # of Los col·loquis de la insigne ciutat de Tortosa, by Cristòfol Despuig. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Section Title."
End of recording:
Say:
"End of section (or chapter) #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:
"End of Los col·loquis de la insigne ciutat de Tortosa, by Cristòfol Despuig."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end.

Filename: colloquisdelainsigneciutatdetortosa_##_despuig_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. colloquisdelainsigneciutatdetortosa_01_despuig_128kb.mp3)

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Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into the relevant Listen URL field in the Section Compiler, enter the duration in the Notes field, and post in this thread to let your PL and MC know that you have uploaded a file. You may also post the file link in the thread.
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Post by Kazbek »

Hi Carles,

I can set up this project for you. Who will be the soloist, you or Maria Josep?

Michael
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Post by carlesroset »

Hi Michael,
I am very happy as you can help us again in our new project :) You ask me who will read now and this is a subject I first wanted to talk with you as our book is a Renaissance dialog (like classical Plato's dialogs) and such a genre has something like a theatre play. Even if our idea is not a dramatized reading we think that three different readers can help our listeners understand better who is saying what in every moment.
In fact I have been thinking before we post our project about what kind of project it was. The reason we post it like a solo and not as a collaborative work, was we don't need the help of other readers of your comunity as maybe we would prefer organize reading collective sessions of our team (three or four people depending if we are enough to have somebody doing live technical tasks and listening only). I am not sure but maybe you have said me when we did our Ausias March project, that in your comunity you have had some team working themselves in a not very usual language in a project that was classified as a solo. Of course this can be changed if your rules are different.
For the moment we are only two: Albert and me but we have some ideas about who could want collaborate with us. With Albert and other people we had a work group of teachers of the city of Tortosa dedicated to create educational resources about this book and its author. So please say us what you think about all this as we would decide who has to do what.
Thank you and I wait your answer.
Carles
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Post by Kazbek »

If there will be multiple readers in the project, but only one reader per section, we would set it up as a collaborative project. If there will be multiple readers per section with different readers reading different characters in the text, we would set it up as a dramatic project. Let me know which option you have in mind. In either case, there's no requirement to open up the project for claims if you have already found all the readers for it. We would move it directly to the Readers Found forum.

Michael
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Post by carlesroset »

Hello Michael,
We hope we will be enough readers to read the way the book is written: three readers in every chapter. I think this would be quite sure. However If you prefer we can wait to decide to have completed all the team. I began proposing our project without having all the team complete, because we were not sure about what would be the requirements of your organisation for our proposal.
Thanks,
Carles
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Post by Kazbek »

Ok, so that would be what we call a dramatic reading, where different characters in a text that is not a play are read by different people. This would be a fairly ambitious undertaking for your first experience as the BC (book coordinator) of a collaborative project. Please read this guide to make sure you're comfortable taking it on:

https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Information_on_coordinating_dramatic_readings

I would also encourage you to look at some current DR projects in this forum, to see how the BCs handle them:

viewforum.php?f=27

We would need all the participants to create LibriVox accounts. Please let me know if you foresee any of them not being able to post in the project thread and upload their recordings themselves. Are you planning to edit the recordings and compile the different parts or will someone else do that?

Skimming through the book, it looks like there are three characters appearing throughout the conversational chapters and five non-conversational chapters, three in Catalan, one in Latin and one in Spanish.

Michael
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Post by Kazbek »

I'll move this thread to Book Suggestions until we have figured out how this project will be organized.

Michael
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Post by carlesroset »

Hello Michael,
I’m very sorry it has taken to us a so long deal to put our ideas ready to start again our project. It has taken a while to us to read and see all the informations on dramatic readings and decide how we would organize our work. Maybe it hasn’t been a lost time because now we know better the way we think our efforts would be more useful.
In the meanwhile I was angry because so many weeks had passed without any answer to your last message, but I tried to write two times an explanation of our doubts about how we could organize the best way our work, and two times I changed my mind. Maybe this section "Book suggestions" means that its threads are in a standby time.
Our idea now is to begin the recordings in January and as we are already three people in the team, Albert, Cinta and me, eachone of we three would read one of the three characters of the book. This text hasn't got narrative voice and we wouldn't need any other reader (there are also some short introductory parts but anyone of we can read them if needed). We are thinking about another member for our team for the edition work. And I would do myself the BC work.
I hope we had now most of the work organized in the correct way and maybe we could already think about solutions for concrete problems still remaining. Of course we would be glad to listen to your suggestions about all this I have explained and I hope I would be more quick answering any comunication in this tread in the future.
Thank you for all your attention,
Carles
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Post by Kazbek »

Hi Carles,

No worries about the delay. I'm glad to hear the project is in the works. Since you're planning to begin recording in January, why don't you reply again in this thread when you are ready to start, and I'll set up the project then.

Michael
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Post by carlesroset »

Hello Michael,
It seems to me a good idea to set the project when we would be ready to begin the recordings. In the meanwhile we will look for the member who would do the editing job and decide what recording devices we shall use. Also we would organize better our work for be ready to handle in the best way the text.
Thanks for all and we post here again when we would be ready to start or maybe if we have any doubts about the project.
All the best,
Carles
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