Light Catches Diamonds- DSL or Cable
Light Catches Diamonds- Dial-up
While I simply cannot
record this again, won’t tell you the story though you can surely
guess, and I dearly hope the volume is high enough (I’m using Audacity on a PC rather than SoundStudio on my old iMac), it is a plain and slower reading, no echoes, promise!
The text for Light Catches Diamonds may be found at my art website.
Thank you, Sky, ydurp, vexations, Ashes_2_Ashes_Words_2_Words, and Richard Geer for your much appreciated feedback. xo
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People
have asked if you are supposed to pay for the recording. While I surely
appreciate it if you do, no, you don’t have to pay for it. You can listen to any of my recordings at SoundClick anytime (streaming is free). I switched from free download to paid because Paintings in the Sand was downloaded about 1500 times and, well, you understand…
Comments (9)
What makes your paintings so striking, is that they speak so much from spirit. One doesn’t simply look upon each piece and say it is beautiful, but says rather, I see more deeply into what the artist is trying to convey. They are poetic in the sense that they bring the mind out of its preconceived concepts behind any given image.
Does this make sense? Perhaps only to myself, but this is how I see your work.
Blessings~
Wow, I can’t imagine a better reading of your wonderful poem.
LOVED IT! PERFECT! Beautiful lyrical…very smooth, like a wonderful wine moving through the body inducing rich feelings of poetic rhythms and images. Thank you for a wonderful beginning to my day!
And thank you too for your very gracious compliments. Ryq: Yes, I can see you at my wedding! Haunting and beautiful, wickedly funny and charming. I am hoping to invite several of my Blogville neighbors to share in the wonderfully creative divine ceremony. I sincerely do hope that you will come. Perhaps I should start dating again…before I begin sending out invitations….lol….lol.
Love and hugs, Ms. Liz
NOW i remember why i stopped writing poetry lifetimes ago…poetry is meant to be READ by the poet…and MY voice is monotonous
@EminemsRevenge -
I’d hardly believe that Rudy! You, guitar-pickin’ hooterin’ ‘n hollerin rowdy poet-man! I’d lurve to hear you r’ad your stuff! Poetry Slam would be mild for the show you’d cook up – revving your motorcycle & other pyrotechnics. C’mon, museman….
Brenda, your reading of this composition “Light Catches Diamonds” is absolutely dazzling–like diamonds in Light, themselves. I have just now been able to listen to it. The landscape is viewable and the eloquence of style in the oration, oh my, most impressive. Throughout, I kept thinking that this could be read on NPR, and why not? My Friend, Emis, contacted them and they interviewed him on his rather insipid pencil sharpener collection and satisfied themselves as to a curiosity why he often felt compelled to wear a gorilla suit whilst strolling the avenues of Philadelphia. Oy.
But seriously, you must explore the many possibilities.
Thank you, Thank you for the sharing of this Gift.
Blessings~
You made it so easy this time: click here, close there. I have to say this was a huge improvement, maybe not as artsy or fun for you to do, but from this end I’d say it was just about perfect. And the difference amazed me. It shouldn’t have. After all, given the intricacies of the text, it required a careful reading. And that’s what you gave it. You’re a master, gliding over the easily recognizable words, pausing just the right amount after a silver-tongued mouthful, letting us digest, easily, words that seemed to fight their way out last time. It was like music, Brenda, gilded tones, playful cadence. I was enthralled, wooed, and what had seemed sexually overt before was just right now. Like a good lover, you wove in and out, taking us there a little here, a little there. All the things I had trouble with in the beginning turned out to be strengths in this version. What sounded dense then is now what clicks our minds back in place, having left on a reverie of emotion. Instead of being bombarded auditorily, I easily moved from thought (wonderful concepts, by the way) to the tactile imagines you’re so good at conjuring up. But the biggest thing you’ve got going here is the timbre, which was distorted before. It’s like you sprinkled fairy dust over words so that by the time I clicked my speakers on it all sounded magic. I would change only one thing. At the end, when you click the mic off, it sounds like a burp:).
@madmorrigan -
Thank you so much, my dear. Your response means much. xo
@ydurp -
Pru, thank you so much for your detailed response. So many recordings hit the trash bin that afternoon. It was almost like you were directing me and so I am particularly grateful to you for listening so carefully and giving me such a beautiful response. If I could be half of what you say…! On we go, my friend… xo