Something a little different...

[avevale_intelligencer]

Background Music - a story!

About seventeen minutes long, so probably not worksafe in that sense.

First time recording this kind of thing since schooldays, so feedback very welcome.

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think I might have found the music more distracting if it had run on. As it was, I actally had to go back and listen to find out where it did disappear (rather ironic, in view of the sentiments being expressed at that point). Yes, it could have used some for the second part, perhaps you should write it *g*. I think that the way you faded it was very good, it was there but then faded out once I'd recognised its presence and didn't need it any more (much the way a playwright wil often use a dialect or language at first to setup a character and then reduce it once it's been established).

I do love the voice, the suggestion of a Russian (or similar) bass, and I would love to hear your reading to the Countess sometime with the different voices. Preferably 'live', because then I could get the visual cues (which I use a lot when people are speaking normally; I don't "lip-read" but I do use it for synchronisation, which is why I get very upset when TV or video is out of sync by more than a few 10s of milliseconds, I've been known to rip video to disk and put it through a video editor to get rid of as little as 50ms error).

I would also love to hear you reading something like the Austin (which I now know, and so would expect to have less trouble following) with the character voices. (OK, so I know our Soren, but not how the Soren in the books sounds nor any of the others.) Or maybe Two Magicians.