I'm looking for an example of a short section of a recording that you found personally the most moving...
I am giving a presentation tomorrow at Podcamp Montreal:
http://podcampmontreal.org/
My session is called "the richness of audio" and (i think) it's going to be about the intimacy and immediacy of audio content...looking for some good examples ... anyone have any?
question: what is the most moving LV recording you've heard?
http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-001/
http://www.archive.org/download/short_poetry_001_librivox/irish_emigrant_selina_py_64kb.mp3
Read by: Peter Yearsley
I don't even have to think about it. This is it hands down. Peter was even choked up when reading it!
Esther
http://www.archive.org/download/short_poetry_001_librivox/irish_emigrant_selina_py_64kb.mp3
Read by: Peter Yearsley
I don't even have to think about it. This is it hands down. Peter was even choked up when reading it!
Esther
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
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Ezwa reading Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved" letter:
http://librivox.org/selected-letters-of-beethoven-by-ludwig-van-beethoven/
Section 4.
http://www.archive.org/download/selected_letters_beethoven_0711_librivox/selectedletters_04_beethoven.mp3
Ezwa again, singing "Nearer My God To Thee":
http://librivox.org/hymns-of-the-christian-church-by-various/
Section 35.
http://www.archive.org/download/hymns_of_the_christian_church_0805_librivox/hymns_35_eliot.mp3
Karen reading The Railway Children, the part where the little girl finds her father at last:
http://librivox.org/railway-children-by-e-nesbit/
Ch. 14, about 16:00-17:00. (OK, maybe not so moving if you haven't read the book, lol. Judge for yourself. It made me cry.)
http://www.archive.org/download/railway_children_librivox/railwaychildren_14_nesbit.mp3
And while I am thinking about Karen... St Crispian's Day from Henry V:
http://www.archive.org/download/shakespeare_monologues_vol_3_librivox/monologues_vol3_11.mp3
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edited to add: Are you kidding me, Esther? I'm not listening to that thing. I made it halfway through and had to quit.
http://librivox.org/selected-letters-of-beethoven-by-ludwig-van-beethoven/
Section 4.
http://www.archive.org/download/selected_letters_beethoven_0711_librivox/selectedletters_04_beethoven.mp3
Ezwa again, singing "Nearer My God To Thee":
http://librivox.org/hymns-of-the-christian-church-by-various/
Section 35.
http://www.archive.org/download/hymns_of_the_christian_church_0805_librivox/hymns_35_eliot.mp3
Karen reading The Railway Children, the part where the little girl finds her father at last:
http://librivox.org/railway-children-by-e-nesbit/
Ch. 14, about 16:00-17:00. (OK, maybe not so moving if you haven't read the book, lol. Judge for yourself. It made me cry.)
http://www.archive.org/download/railway_children_librivox/railwaychildren_14_nesbit.mp3
And while I am thinking about Karen... St Crispian's Day from Henry V:
http://www.archive.org/download/shakespeare_monologues_vol_3_librivox/monologues_vol3_11.mp3
***
edited to add: Are you kidding me, Esther? I'm not listening to that thing. I made it halfway through and had to quit.
Last edited by chocoholic on September 20th, 2008, 5:05 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Laurie Anne
Oh ya me too!!chocoholic wrote: Karen reading The Railway Children, the part where the little girl finds her father at last:
http://librivox.org/railway-children-by-e-nesbit/
Ch. 14, about 16:00-17:00. (OK, maybe not so moving if you haven't read the book, lol. Judge for yourself. It made me cry.)
http://www.archive.org/download/railway_children_librivox/railwaychildren_14_nesbit.mp3
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
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Clarica's reading of the poem A Woman in Hospital from The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman:
http://librivox.org/the-verse-book-of-a-homely-woman-by-fay-inchfawn/
Section 9:
http://www.archive.org/download/homely-woman_c_librivox/versebook_09_inchfawn.mp3
http://librivox.org/the-verse-book-of-a-homely-woman-by-fay-inchfawn/
Section 9:
http://www.archive.org/download/homely-woman_c_librivox/versebook_09_inchfawn.mp3
Yup, this is the one I was going to suggest.Starlite wrote:http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-001/
http://www.archive.org/download/short_poetry_001_librivox/irish_emigrant_selina_py_64kb.mp3
Read by: Peter Yearsley
I don't even have to think about it. This is it hands down. Peter was even choked up when reading it!
Esther
[size=75]Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. - Jasper Fforde[/size]
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Perhaps I am posting off topic. Someone else would have to evaluate whether it was moving to them ... but I know the hardest recording I ever made for LV, causing me to choke up repeatedly, compose myself, buck up, and get back to giving a rendering that did justice to the powerful original ... I know that one. That was definitely the last section, 08, of The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
http://librivox.org/the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-by-us-army-corps-of-engineers/
This project recorded the official government report, published 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of military physicians and engineers who accompanied the initial contingent of U.S. soldiers into the destroyed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The "Appendix," Section 08, is an eyewitness account, contrasting vividly with the dispassionate sang-froid of the preceding official military report itself. The Appendix was written by a German Jesuit priest who survived the blast at Hiroshima, and whose order of co-religiants not only witnessed but assisted in rescue efforts following the catastrophic attack.
This recording was difficult for me to voice, as the horrific details of that "day after" account, counter-pointed by the heroism of these priests who rescued victims while themselves being sorely wounded victims, made it hard to simply read through.
-denny
http://librivox.org/the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-by-us-army-corps-of-engineers/
This project recorded the official government report, published 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of military physicians and engineers who accompanied the initial contingent of U.S. soldiers into the destroyed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The "Appendix," Section 08, is an eyewitness account, contrasting vividly with the dispassionate sang-froid of the preceding official military report itself. The Appendix was written by a German Jesuit priest who survived the blast at Hiroshima, and whose order of co-religiants not only witnessed but assisted in rescue efforts following the catastrophic attack.
This recording was difficult for me to voice, as the horrific details of that "day after" account, counter-pointed by the heroism of these priests who rescued victims while themselves being sorely wounded victims, made it hard to simply read through.
-denny
I once burst in to tears when I heard Holy Sonnets by John Donne, recorded by earthcalling.
http://librivox.org/holy-sonnets-by-john-donne/
Every voice here at Librivox is a treasure for us and our listeners, but I endear earthcalling's deep, soothing voice the most. I hope earthcalling can record many more poems. Maybe he can record his own audio version of Shakespeare's sonnets? It would be really grateful to him if he makes a recording of these wonderful poems. I will download his recording of the Sonnets if he records them and catalogs them on to our catalog.
D. E. Wittkower's recording of a short story entitled The Measure of a Man also made me cry. You can find his beautiful reading in the Short Science Fiction 006
http://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-vol-006/
section 7.
I love his voice. Hopefully he can record more stories and poetry.
Regards,
Eunah
http://librivox.org/holy-sonnets-by-john-donne/
Every voice here at Librivox is a treasure for us and our listeners, but I endear earthcalling's deep, soothing voice the most. I hope earthcalling can record many more poems. Maybe he can record his own audio version of Shakespeare's sonnets? It would be really grateful to him if he makes a recording of these wonderful poems. I will download his recording of the Sonnets if he records them and catalogs them on to our catalog.
D. E. Wittkower's recording of a short story entitled The Measure of a Man also made me cry. You can find his beautiful reading in the Short Science Fiction 006
http://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-vol-006/
section 7.
I love his voice. Hopefully he can record more stories and poetry.
Regards,
Eunah
hugh wrote:
"I'm looking for an example of a short section of a recording that you found personally the most moving..."
Since hugh asked to give examples of short sections of the recording that moved me, I will tell specific parts where I was moved.
earthcalling's Holy Sonnet X and XIV were both exquisite and soothing.
D. E. Wittkower's reading of The Measure of a Man was powerful and beautiful overall, but I cried at the very end of the story when he read the following sentences:
Quote:
"Do you mean you exposed yourself to the full leakage radiation from a
lifeboat engine for thirty-six hours?"
But there was no answer.
"Let him sleep," said the ship's doctor. "If he wakes up again, I'll let
you know. But he might not be very lucid from here on in."
"Is there anything you can do?" the captain asked.
"No. Not after a radiation dosage like that." He looked down at Pendray.
"His problem was easy, mathematically. But not psychologically. That
took real guts to solve."
"Yeah," said the captain gently. "All he had to do was _get_ here alive.
The problem said nothing about his staying that way."
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It was the first time I cried after I read and listened to a science fiction story.
"I'm looking for an example of a short section of a recording that you found personally the most moving..."
Since hugh asked to give examples of short sections of the recording that moved me, I will tell specific parts where I was moved.
earthcalling's Holy Sonnet X and XIV were both exquisite and soothing.
D. E. Wittkower's reading of The Measure of a Man was powerful and beautiful overall, but I cried at the very end of the story when he read the following sentences:
Quote:
"Do you mean you exposed yourself to the full leakage radiation from a
lifeboat engine for thirty-six hours?"
But there was no answer.
"Let him sleep," said the ship's doctor. "If he wakes up again, I'll let
you know. But he might not be very lucid from here on in."
"Is there anything you can do?" the captain asked.
"No. Not after a radiation dosage like that." He looked down at Pendray.
"His problem was easy, mathematically. But not psychologically. That
took real guts to solve."
"Yeah," said the captain gently. "All he had to do was _get_ here alive.
The problem said nothing about his staying that way."
Quote
It was the first time I cried after I read and listened to a science fiction story.