Trupple the Mupple

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Re: Trupple the Mupple

Post by sasha » June 14th, 2021, 5:07 pm

judih wrote:
June 14th, 2021, 1:12 pm
Sasha! Roy! What a fine piece of sculpting!
Thank you!
Thank you! It was mostly fussy, detail work. Once I'd separated each stanza, it was a fairly simple matter to stagger them. I wanted you to start things off - but I HATED my rendition of "synagogs...", preferring yours - but once I realized that the two "mupples" (sonatas?) were simply repeated, I was able to use my 2nd reading of it, which wasn't as bad. Also, I tend run my words together, like the "BoommmBoommmBoommm" at the very end - and I much preferred your more percussive "Boom Boom Boom" - so I shortened the gaps between each or your "Boom"s just enough that they'd start at the same time as a "Boommm". Other places I'd done it, I inserted a few hundred milliseconds of silence between words to give a more natural flow. Lots of stuff like that. I can still hear a few places I wish I'd tinkered the timing a bit more.

Finally I applied audio compression to the lot (squashing the dynamic range between faintest & loudest sounds), boosted the overall volume by some 6-7 db, panned myself to 60% left channel, 40% right, & did the opposite with you. I exported the whole thing to a single 2-track WAV file, in which I adjusted the pauses between stanzas to about 1 sec each, & about 2 sec between the mupples. Just before exporting to MP3, I prepended your acknowledgement of the author, & stuck in the plug for those incredibly talented voice actors... ;)

Speaking of which - I was struck by how much your voice reminded me of Terry Gross, host of NPR's "Fresh Air" !
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Re: Trupple the Mupple

Post by judih » June 14th, 2021, 10:16 pm

That's a lot of fussy, detail work. (I've never heard Terry's voice, so I'll check her out).
And I hope you rewarded yourself for a fine job. Incredible that your fine mind has agreed to invest in spoken word projects. May there be more challenges, interesting enough to encourage such acts of patience and precision.
(of course, it's never perfect, but that makes it human!)

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Re: Trupple the Mupple

Post by sasha » June 15th, 2021, 10:19 am

Well, this "fine mind" can't possibly compete with the poets who frequent this site, but is more than happy to parlay what it is good at to showcase their work. If I babble about the technical details, it's out of love for the labor & the tools that make it possible.
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Re: Trupple the Mupple

Post by judih » June 15th, 2021, 12:25 pm

(small bow to your modesty)

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Re: Trupple the Mupple

Post by stilltrucking » June 15th, 2021, 4:42 pm

read worthy
yes
:D to hear it
thanks for writing it 8) compodre

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Re: Trupple the Mupple

Post by mnaz » June 16th, 2021, 5:13 am

"sin of gods"..
Well done, Cec.

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Re: Trupple the Mupple

Post by mtmynd » June 19th, 2021, 12:58 am

I apologize to all you kind folks, especially Judih and Sasha w/ their glowing patience.

I am unable to speak my very own words. When I see Judih's "judih wrote -

"my take 1 of trupple the mupple - just voice.
take 1 judih (online-audio-converter.com).mp3 "

I blushingly have to admit makes no sense to me.
I'm lucky (fortunate) enough to post here what I do post here...

If you two would like to do another fine "recording" for me Mupple, I'd love it!!
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Re: Trupple the Mupple

Post by saw » June 19th, 2021, 10:11 am

really great to hear the poem come to life, so to speak.....and spoken it was !!.....very enjoyable....and I feel like i know the participants better as a result....the poem cried out to be read aloud...and y'all made it happen.... 8) 8) 8)
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Re: Trupple the Mupple

Post by sasha » June 19th, 2021, 2:59 pm

saw wrote:
June 19th, 2021, 10:11 am
....and I feel like i know the participants better as a result....
know what you mean. You get used to "hearing" all our voices in your head - then suddenly you hear them with your ears, and it's not the same. I felt the same way the first time I played Judih's rendering of darque 9.....
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