I made an important discovery recently, one that will turn upside down my initial conception about how to control who speaks from where along the stereo spectrum. Meaning, how far to the left or to the right a character speaks from in the stereo mix. But first an update. If you have checked back to this website over the past… (more…)
It’s no secret this project had a rough 2011 with little progress, but now a new small team of editors have asked to join the team and help get this done, an unexpected new year’s gift. Time to get organized!
There is a lot to do still.
By now if you’ve been following the project, you may have noticed that the part of the French Marquis is played by a woman– the inimitable Lisa Wolpe. Among many things, Lisa is the artistic director of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, and has made her mark locally by playing some of Shakespeare’s most powerful men as if she were… (more…)
Over the last two recording sessions I’ve had the opportunity to record separately with two extremely fine actors involved in the show, however, both presented a unique recording challenge. Peter Macon is a powerful actor who has been garnering attention recently up in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Last year he played Macbeth in a powerful rendition, and the year before… (more…)
There I saw Rosamond, Gregory’s sister with the goldred hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, laughing with the great unconscious gravity of a girl. Rosamond is mentioned twice in The Man Who Was Thursday book. Once, right after Gabriel’s first debate with Lucien Gregory “the real anarchist” as he’s known. She catches his eye, and later asks him his advice on… (more…)
Yesterday we had our sixth recording session, the forth session of only narration, performed by Jacob Sidney as Gabriel. All together it took about ten hours to get through itl. The average takes for each line was three, with many coming at two, and a few coming in at eight. One of the most enjoyable parts of the book is… (more…)