General update
May. 17th, 2011 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaJust went to an on-campus lunch concert with the University of Manitoba Singers. They sang Stan Rogers' "Watching the Apples Grow" (after first asking the audience whether anyone had heard of Stan Rogers, at which I waved my hand, but I didn't see anyone else who did). Awwww.
They also sang a Swedish traditional folk song I know, which was interesting. It was like someone had told them about some of the characteristics of Swedish folk singing--like, they held long notes on the consonant and not the vowel like you usually do in Swedish folk songs (well, not consonants like "t" and "k" obviously, but ones like "n", "m" and "ng"). But they also had a vibrato, which made it sound like it was still sung in classical choir fashion.
Am feeling very good about my podficcing now. I feel like I'm better at it now than I was a year ago, and better a year ago than two years ago. And hopefully I'll keep getting better--there's lots of room both to improve and to try new things. I've had several podfics beta-listened lately, which has been very helpful.
There's a challenge at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
pod_together, where a writer and a podficcer work together to produce a podfic from a story/script that was written to be performed rather than read. It'll be interesting to see how that changes the way the text is written, and I'm thinking of signing up.
Also, I had a birthday a week ago--I am now 32. Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday! It was a nice but undramatic one. My boyfriend made me sushi, and my parents and sister made a conference call so they could all sing for me together.
They also sang a Swedish traditional folk song I know, which was interesting. It was like someone had told them about some of the characteristics of Swedish folk singing--like, they held long notes on the consonant and not the vowel like you usually do in Swedish folk songs (well, not consonants like "t" and "k" obviously, but ones like "n", "m" and "ng"). But they also had a vibrato, which made it sound like it was still sung in classical choir fashion.
Am feeling very good about my podficcing now. I feel like I'm better at it now than I was a year ago, and better a year ago than two years ago. And hopefully I'll keep getting better--there's lots of room both to improve and to try new things. I've had several podfics beta-listened lately, which has been very helpful.
There's a challenge at
pod_together, where a writer and a podficcer work together to produce a podfic from a story/script that was written to be performed rather than read. It'll be interesting to see how that changes the way the text is written, and I'm thinking of signing up. Also, I had a birthday a week ago--I am now 32. Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday! It was a nice but undramatic one. My boyfriend made me sushi, and my parents and sister made a conference call so they could all sing for me together.
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Date: 2011-05-17 03:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-17 08:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-17 05:05 pm (UTC)That new podfic comm sounds awesome. If I were more experienced I'd be tempted. I was hoping you'd give it a whirl!
Glad you had a nice birthday, Luz! &hearts(
Happy Belated Birthday or the chickens ate my manners
Date: 2011-05-17 04:27 pm (UTC)You are on the list for a good very green photo, if I can take one today.
BTW, Swedish Flower Hens are all the rage on BackYardChickens, or at least one of the rages: the genetic malleability of the domestic chicken is conduscive to all sorts of manic enthusiasm!
Julia, over-scheduled month, this.
Re: Happy Belated Birthday or the chickens ate my manners
Date: 2011-05-17 04:42 pm (UTC)A photo sounds lovely! I saw and admired your latest chicken photo. And it's getting green here, too, although there are remnants of snow still left, mostly where the snowplows plowed it up into hills earlier in the year.
Swedish Flower Hens, hmm. I've never heard of them, although I do know of the old Swedish countryside breeds that have survived. Here is a site with photos of these, although the text is in Swedish.
Re: Happy Belated Birthday or the chickens ate my manners
Date: 2011-05-17 10:23 pm (UTC)I just got home from a badly-timed dental appointmens, and my day is so very blown that I'm planning on putting on field clothing and go see what's out there to photograph.
Julia, what a day!
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Date: 2011-05-17 07:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-17 07:52 pm (UTC)How are you these days?
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