Dear Friend
Here's a humorous doodad that I wrote after getting several glossy appeals for donations from places like the Met (they had an enormous envelope filled with brochures detailing all kinds of member benefits). It's a little cheerier than the last podcast. You can read "Dear Friend" online at Helium, where I put it after a few rejections, although in retrospect, this seems the kind of thing that Wild Violet would have liked. After all, editor Alyce enjoyed the similarly whimsical "Corrections to the Rules of Fimble Fowl (For 3 Players or 4)." Curse my impatience!Running time 4:20
Labels: Alice in Wonderland, humor, Lewis Carroll, podcast
posted by K. A. Laity @ 9/26/2008 03:19:00 PM
4 Comments:
Fascinating use of Garage Band! My girlfriend, Elizabeth, keeps encouraging me to do a podcast featuring my impersonated voices. Unfortunately, time always slips away from me...Huzzah!
Far be it from me to comment on the innate superiority of the Mac, but GarageBand is about as simple and effective as you can get for recording podcasts. I had used Audacity before; you have to get various plug-ins and then manually save files as MP3s. GB does it all automatically.
Of course, it can do a lot more than that, too, but I'm maxed on what I want to learn at present. Too little time, as you say.
Here's how I do the podcasts: I sit on my bed with the laptop, chase Kipper off the bed (otherwise he's inclined to groom and jingle his collar, or mew unexpectedly), and press record. The last step is often repeated. This time I kept stumbling over "whimsy" which kept coming out "whismy" and "chaos" that seemed to want to be "CH-aos" instead of "kā'ŏs'" as it ought to be.
Cool! See, I would want to add sound effects, music snippets, and other things so the podcast seems like something out of Pump Up the Volume.
Oh, I am far too lazy to get that complicated. Perhaps later when I get bored with the low-tech form of my readings, I will want to play around more -- in that abundant free time I have, har har.
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