Podcast is Live!
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lydamorehouseIf you want to listen to me (as Dylan Calish) hosting "Travels to the UnSeen World"... it is now live: http://entertheunseen.com/travels1/
People have asked me about the name, what's the deal? Well, Dylan is nearly Lyda (just mess up the letters and add a "n"). Plus when Rachel asked me if I wanted to be a sibling to her pen name, I said, "Sure, but I kind of want to be your brother." Clearly on the podcast, I can't pass as a dude, so I picked a gender-neutral(-ish) name.
We had a lot of fun with the podcast. If you give it a listen, you'll see that it's still a bit rough around the edges, but I'm quite pleased, despite all that. Particularly since, before a few days ago, I'd hardly used Audacity at _all_. I'm looking forward to doing more of these. I already put together a quick one that's meant as a language supplement episode for Halloween. Our professor reads a much larger passage in the phonetic Cuneiform and I added part of our interview with her where we discus language and gender and gender and power, the effect diminutives (like -ess on princ-ess) has on the perceived power of women. We also joked about early language as advertisements for beer (which was, of course, invented in ancient Sumer.)
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empty_mirrors reminded me that I should probably add a link or write a blog post soon about Inanna, since not everyone is familiar with her story. The cool thing is that we got our professor to tell us the most famous Inanna story--of her journey to the underworld--on 'tape,' as it were. So Rachel and I are talking about having a "Velveteen Demon Bedtime Stories" podcast too.
Because, damn. I just discovered audio.
Imma record EVERYTHING.
:-)
People have asked me about the name, what's the deal? Well, Dylan is nearly Lyda (just mess up the letters and add a "n"). Plus when Rachel asked me if I wanted to be a sibling to her pen name, I said, "Sure, but I kind of want to be your brother." Clearly on the podcast, I can't pass as a dude, so I picked a gender-neutral(-ish) name.
We had a lot of fun with the podcast. If you give it a listen, you'll see that it's still a bit rough around the edges, but I'm quite pleased, despite all that. Particularly since, before a few days ago, I'd hardly used Audacity at _all_. I'm looking forward to doing more of these. I already put together a quick one that's meant as a language supplement episode for Halloween. Our professor reads a much larger passage in the phonetic Cuneiform and I added part of our interview with her where we discus language and gender and gender and power, the effect diminutives (like -ess on princ-ess) has on the perceived power of women. We also joked about early language as advertisements for beer (which was, of course, invented in ancient Sumer.)
My friend
empty_mirrors reminded me that I should probably add a link or write a blog post soon about Inanna, since not everyone is familiar with her story. The cool thing is that we got our professor to tell us the most famous Inanna story--of her journey to the underworld--on 'tape,' as it were. So Rachel and I are talking about having a "Velveteen Demon Bedtime Stories" podcast too.Because, damn. I just discovered audio.
Imma record EVERYTHING.
:-)
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scrambling letters
Date: 2013-10-29 11:07 pm (UTC)--David Lenander
Re: scrambling letters
Date: 2013-10-30 12:05 pm (UTC)Are you by any chance dyslexic? I only ask because, despite what people say about the letters we're SUPPOSED to confuse (and I do, do the p b q p thing), I have the weirdest time with "n"s. They're a letter I tend to add to things to hold other letters in place.
Anyway, you're not confused... Or, if you are, you're confused the same why I am.
isn't audio wonderful?
Date: 2013-10-29 11:30 pm (UTC)Congratulations on podcasting! I'll check it out the next time I take the laptop into the pottery. (When I'm not previewing music for KLCC I'm listening to SF Squeecast or Verity.)
And I agree Audacity is pretty cool. I've used Fast Edit and CoolEdit at the radio station, but for freeware, Audacity is almost as robust and not tough to pick up. Denise just used it to record an audio project for a client, though I think we should maybe invest in a "magic mike." She's still using a condenser model from books on tape days.
Frank
Re: isn't audio wonderful?
Date: 2013-10-30 12:03 pm (UTC)But, I don't think my podcast will ever be as professional or Hugo-award winning as theirs, but I'm just trying something new to, as my mother would say, "keep me off the streets."
But, yeah, I'm probably going to be an audio addict for a while, 'tis much fun!
Re: isn't audio wonderful?
Date: 2013-11-01 05:45 am (UTC)I kinda remembered that--archived papers, the Whedonistas connection--but didn't know how close friends you were.
She's currently on leave from Squeecast celebrating the Dr. Who 50th anniversary on Verity. Curious to see how the October installment will sound; she's very much the voice of sanity and reason on Squee.
Frank