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People keep asking me to post this so I'm bowing to popular opinion.
It's old and VERY rough. Done with only the most absolute basic of recording/editing software and a the world's cheapest mic.
I really should re-do this poem at some point,...
*put into scraps cos I can do SOOOOOO much better now*
It's old and VERY rough. Done with only the most absolute basic of recording/editing software and a the world's cheapest mic.
I really should re-do this poem at some point,...
*put into scraps cos I can do SOOOOOO much better now*
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Yay for the Raven! The poem's overdone, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. You really ought to redo it at some point. It'd be cool to hear it done with good equipment/software. Not that it sound bad at all to me as it is ;).
Listening to this is actually strangely hypnotic...
Listening to this is actually strangely hypnotic...
My mom and I listened to this and we have to be truthful: we didn't like it. Discussing it at length sometime there after we thought, while we love your voice Garr, your iteration is too languid and passive. Having read the Raven I've always felt, and my mom agrees, it should be read with a kind of growing hysterical madness; each uttered stanza more harried than the last. Then again, we're Americans, there's no accounting for taste. And as you said, it is an old rendition. Maybe the technical limitations of time give the reading some percieved problems that aren't actually there.
Yeah, i'm with you on the 'not liking it',.. but in the years since I recored it i've gained a LOT mroe experience. It'll be interesting to revisit it at some point soon :)
and, although I agree with you on how the poem should be read, in so far as I feel that is how Poe meant it; expressing the narrators decent into madness and despair. I often feel that a possibly more interesting, and slightly Freudian, interpretation is to see the poem less ad a decent and more as a realisation. The poem then becomes the narrator's dramatic personal journey from denial, though hysteria, to resigned and accepted melancholy.
This is a guy who has pretty much hit bottom well before the poem has even begun. He's sitting alone, on a cold winter's night, reading dark book to disparately stop himself from thinking of his real troubles. He can't undergo a decent into madness and despair because he's already as deep into it as he can get but is in denial about the whole situation.
From a acting point of view, this interpretation
offers a much more interesting and deep character to work with than the more commonly stated "he's going mad" interpretation. And for the most part it plays into Poe's original intent of how it should be read.
It is a poem that can be read many ways (as many ways as the human mind has a spectrum for reaction to emotional adversity) and I know that, all technial limitations aside, I didn't do it very well. But that was a couple of years ago, and since then I've learned a lot about poetry reading and character acting. :)
and, although I agree with you on how the poem should be read, in so far as I feel that is how Poe meant it; expressing the narrators decent into madness and despair. I often feel that a possibly more interesting, and slightly Freudian, interpretation is to see the poem less ad a decent and more as a realisation. The poem then becomes the narrator's dramatic personal journey from denial, though hysteria, to resigned and accepted melancholy.
This is a guy who has pretty much hit bottom well before the poem has even begun. He's sitting alone, on a cold winter's night, reading dark book to disparately stop himself from thinking of his real troubles. He can't undergo a decent into madness and despair because he's already as deep into it as he can get but is in denial about the whole situation.
From a acting point of view, this interpretation
offers a much more interesting and deep character to work with than the more commonly stated "he's going mad" interpretation. And for the most part it plays into Poe's original intent of how it should be read.
It is a poem that can be read many ways (as many ways as the human mind has a spectrum for reaction to emotional adversity) and I know that, all technial limitations aside, I didn't do it very well. But that was a couple of years ago, and since then I've learned a lot about poetry reading and character acting. :)
I found this long long ago on 2's site.
Rune's got it right, though, as do you in your answer...
Also: try and avoid the sing-song poem-rhythm in your reading.
Memorize it.
Live it.
Love it.
Absorb it.
Jesus shit! A RAVEN flew into my house!
Wait... why the hell is it watching me... What does it want... Does it have a master, who is it and is he after me?
...
Why isn't it leaving... WHY ISN'T IT LEAVING!?
Those damned eyes will not leave me!
Rune's got it right, though, as do you in your answer...
Also: try and avoid the sing-song poem-rhythm in your reading.
Memorize it.
Live it.
Love it.
Absorb it.
Jesus shit! A RAVEN flew into my house!
Wait... why the hell is it watching me... What does it want... Does it have a master, who is it and is he after me?
...
Why isn't it leaving... WHY ISN'T IT LEAVING!?
Those damned eyes will not leave me!
As an ammendum: Take the situation, re-write it in more modern language, delve into each line, examine it, translate it, put emotion into it. A transcription will aid you greatly in getting the right feel for each line as you read it in poem form. Seriously, if you put up a demo reel and you do well with this, you'll -wow- the listener.
Just be careful of typecasting.
Do some Spazfox-ish stuff, interplay of your retarded American redneck and either the Scottish vocal you did for 'Trainspotting' or your 'Hatepoem' vocal... or, heck, your own voice. Ad-lib it, and just have fun...
Just be careful of typecasting.
Do some Spazfox-ish stuff, interplay of your retarded American redneck and either the Scottish vocal you did for 'Trainspotting' or your 'Hatepoem' vocal... or, heck, your own voice. Ad-lib it, and just have fun...
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