Audio Files
I've got a number of things planned for this
site. Book reviews and a bookstore are coming soon.
Christian Century will be launching a blog here, featuring some
of their best writers. That's going to be very cool. Many people only know
Christianity from television or perhaps from a bad experience or two. Christian
Century is a magazine for thinking people. I'm very excited about that.
Six months ago I began wondering about creating
audio files and offering them here. I'm really hoping to do a podcast at some
time in the future. So I bought an
MBox and spent a little time learning to
use it. I'm just beginning, but I know how to lay down tracks and mix them.
Editing is still hard, but I'm getting there.
So here's my first attempt at an audio
production of an essay. I recorded
this
essay from February of 2004. Remember, this is my FIRST try.
After I was done, I realized I slurred the word "through" in one part. But I'm am not good enough yet to go in and fix just one word.
Also, the music
intro and exit is a little plain and obvious. Oh well, you gotta start
somewhere.
When an author reads something he or she wrote,
you get to hear the words the way they were imagined. I try to write so that my
prose sounds good. I read everything out loud. It's the only way I can keep
hearing it fresh. So anyway, this is how I imagined this thing sounding.
The music is from Ben King's CD,
"Rio Grande Romeos." Actually I grabbed it
to see if I could figure out how to have a musical intro. After I had played
with it, I ended up liking the sound so I kept it. I'm pretty sure Ben is okay
with this.
Hey Ben, is it okay if I use your music
for an audio file? If you don't say anything, I'll take that as a yes.
(Okay seriously, Ben's a friend and he's
cool with me doing this.)
The mp3 file is 3.3 megabytes. PC users can
right click to download the file (I don't know how Mac people do that), or just
click to listen. It isn't a streaming file so you'll have to wait until it
loads.
Click here and enjoy!
peace,
rlp
