Spoken Word on YWS

It's been a recent obsession of mine, in my never-ending search for funky flow, to read my poetry aloud both during the writing process and post-production, which most of the time is editing. This means that anything I post to YWS gets read aloud dozens of times, and after a while I developed a love for my work in my own voice. And I thought this should be a thing on YWS.

My goal here is for folks to share their work read aloud. It doesn't have to be poetry! I want you to fall in love with whatever you write, and if speaking it aloud and sharing it here makes you love it, then I want you to record yourself.

On a major plus, your friends get to hear your work read by the person who knows its flow the best. So let me go first - hoping that others will come along eventually.

This is an introduction to cranio-spacial migratory patterns.

Great idea. I'm definitely doing this.

I remembered my phone has a nifty voice recorder.

Here is a segment from one of my works-in-progress, Silk. I like this segment quite a bit and I thought it might sound nice aloud. To give context, Silk is a warped tale of Beauty and the Beast. Pip's family (his father, his two sisters and him) have fallen on hard times and been forced to move from their city home to a small village. Pip has just met a girl he thinks he likes. His sisters don't agree.

And some context on me - yeah, I know my accent doesn't make sense. xD

OKAY AFTER TWENTY ATTEMPTS - teach me how to embed and I shall. For now. You get a link.

EDIT - a WORKING link.

@StellaThomas --> I want you to read all of my fiction ever. That perfect moment you captured when you said, "Pip fell in love."

I love it. <3

You people.
Can I comission you to read stuff to me forever?

ohhh, helpful for embedding:

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That should be able to embed media. I'm not sure about voice recordings.

@Auxiira - believe me, I tried xD but thank you anyway! <3

hmmmmm

Attempted to read straight, next to no editing happened in my reading except the end comment I made. plz enjoy, it was horrifyingly hard to not stutter. 4 minutes of reading.

recording https://soundcloud.com/zolen/my-dreams


reading In my mind I dream.

Here is my poem that I read out loud to my phone(because my computer microphone is buggy and jerky and broken ). Hope y'all like it:
The Miracle of My Song

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B27Y6yx7IEYecVRSbGIyV0ZMRWJQbGhULUtfMC0yd3ZTZHRr/view?usp=sharing

And here is another one:
Pine Tree Miracle
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B27Y6yx7IEYeMV9URm5MZWRvQXZ2UFc4Z1RZbTBjcW5zeUo0/view?usp=sharing

@pretzelsing - omg I love how you work the rhythm into the beginning of that poem and then it kind of falls away in the middle bit about being forced to sing and then comes back! So clever.

And @Zolen - I loved the piece, so lyrical and dream-like. But also, you have an amazing accent.

I want to do this, but apparently my microphone is more sensitive than my own ears (not surprising, since I'm partially deaf) and picks up background noises I didn't know existed. -_-

Ooh, so many lovely voices. Now it's my turn.



(my voice in animated form. You have been warned. At least I'm not singing again. You're welcome.)

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1OtPGdLdM6I
A melodramatic reading of these threads were destined to unravel

http://picosong.com/eryb/
My first attempt at Spoken Word during last year's NaPo. The poem was later revised into you will not win tonight

I might as well try reading this sonnet out loud so we can appreciate my efforts in iambic pentamenter. http://vocaroo.com/i/s0zHgAMtMHgS
Into the Setting Sun

EDIT: Tried to use the media tags but apparently it doesn't like Vocaroo. Changed them to links.

I couldn't pick one so I did several. c:
(I love doing this stuff)
Also, sorry about the microphone quality. It can't be helped.

First, this is my first poem specifically written for spoken word:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s00sD0WqQTHo
you can read it here: Prynncess

Here's another
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ip0kBgN1sv
Blue Nova

And another
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0fQJpN4cRHE
to wax poetic

And finally
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1GCb13DllgZ
Widdershins

I ended up having to download the file onto soundcloud to even get it to play >.>

Anyways xD here is chapter one of LS

https://soundcloud.com/forgottenmemories-1/chapter-one

@Widdershins, I'm not sure which one I heard, but it sounded really cool. Your voice is like perfect for reading horror! I mean that as a compliment of course. XD