Comments on: Happy Bloomsday

By: Gidget

Gidget — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:00:13 +0000

i think i’ve enjoyed the bit read by you and the guys the most thus far. i didn’t mind the moments when the guys would stop for a mistake or burst out laughing. it made the experience more enjoyable. more real. and the violin was warm. felt like i was kicked back @ a pub…ejoying a rich beer and hearing a brilliant story. (:

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:59:45 +0000

some of the ulysses chaps were read as dialogue, with different readers… as for layering background samples, the nice thing about public domain audio, is that anyone can take it, improve it, cut it up, add background sounds, music or whatever they like ;-)

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:51:44 +0000

Just reading this sentence: “readers were encouraged to read in groups, in public places, and no editing was required” gave me an intriguing idea. Why couldn’t Librivox audio books have ambient aural backgrounds for each scene (e.g. a scene at the market could contain some background sample of the Jean-Talon market, properly edited and mixed so as to keep the main audio intelligible)?

Or for that matter, could dialogues be actually acted out by different persons instead of just read by one person? Maybe you already thought of these, but they just appeared to me now.

Oh, and Happy HughDay!

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:23:47 +0000

Thanks!

By: Annie

Annie — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:22:26 +0000

Happy Bloomsday and happy birthday to you, Hugh!