MOVING...

MOVING MY BLOG... Now I'm going to have only one blog instead of the many that I have had up til now... The new location is http://jeffthomann.wordpress.com/

Please pray for Jon

My cousin Jon Thomann has been in the hospital the last week. He fell down a flight of concrete stairs and did some major damage to his head that required brain surgery. He has not fully become consious yet, but there are indications that he is becoming more active. This has been a trying time and has been hard on all of us.

Please pray for his recovery. If you would like to know more about his current situation, his girlfriend, parents and brother are keeping us all updated with this website/blog:

http://caringbridge.org/visit/jonthomann

If you would like to help out financially, there has been a new Support Fund recently set up. You may send checks to the

Jon Thomann and Family Support Fund
P.O. Box 1262
Columbia MO 65205-1262

For more information on the fund and its purpose, you may contact Cathi Harris at 573-220-6582.

possible Future plans for this blog...

Basically, in the near future, I'm going to try to unravel all of the words and phrases I can from the Annie Coleman mp3s on Librivox and create a sort of virtual actor with these... which I may eventually tie in to animations and/or make available here or on Turbosquid for game designers, or anyone else who has a use for such a thing.

After I do this with all the stuff from Annie, I may try to do some with some other open source stuff from others that post a lot of works on librivox or other public domain type places. I think just doing this with audio for now is what I should be doing since it's a little easier than doing it all with video where the images throw in a whole new level of complexity...

Quickly combined sounds for wav files, where I mix words, phrases or phonemes don't sound totally realistic or authentic... mainly due to timing, and the fact that Annie used various recording setups (maybe her voice is closer to mic, she was on another computer or something?, etc.)... but that's all more or less fixable to a degree, just takes some working over the tempo, timing, sound levels, and various other sound engineering principles. I sort of like this idea of creating an entire library of sounds based on librivox recordings like this since it does create a more or less "voice actor" for you free... since it's public domain... and since it's actually a real person that did the recording, most of it will sound better than old computer software things that try to make text in to speech automatically. At least the sentences and short phrases should sound better.

I used to play around with Voiceany demo and similar type text the speech software long ago, but it just sounded computery more or less. With Anne's voice, even though the recordings aren't perfect, and there needs to be some work done on timing and volume levels and things, there's much more potential for greatness to come out of the remixing. If I add all of that to my own unusual vocal recordings (see grababeat blog by looking at my profile) and maybe, eventually some midi recordings (now that I'm going to eventually start practicing midi keyboard playing more), I see a whole slew of opportunity here... maybe an entire remix based on public domain stuff culture will come in to being (it already does exist somewhat... but not nearly at the level that low level video or imagery swapping does with youtube, flickr and that sort of thing now)..

Once I get good with Annie's stuff on Librivox, I may move on to other folks voices over there that have recorded as much or more than her?!!... future is unlimited.

Happy Day to You.

I would just post this stuff over on youtube, but...

I would just post this stuff over on youtube, but I'm not sure if anyone over there would like it... it would probably get more viewers and commenters... but on the other hand, I'd have to come up with some visuals for these wav files... I can and probably will do that eventually, but need to do some digging to find some that are worthy. I wouldn't mind using this as a springboard for illustration drawing, or just pure visual experimentation with public domain images and other stuff. I probably will do that poem excert several posts down with some Georgia O' Keefe paintings as visuals or something... and/or maybe variations of it with pics of big cats at the zoo... ? Possibilities are endless.

The Sex is Sprung from Shame and Pride

Excerpt from a Librivox Recording based on Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience:

Here's the recording:
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/sexissprung.WAV

Here's the Words:

The Sex is Sprung
from Shame and Pride

Oh Lovely Pussy...

Excerpt from a Librivox Recording recorded by Annie Coleman:

Here's the recording:
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/ohbeautifulpussy.WAV

Here's the Words:

Oh Lovely Pussy,
Oh Pussy my Love
What a beautiful Pussy you are
You Are.
You Are...
What a beautiful Pussy you are!



This was originally out of a poem and the pussy referred to a cat. I could definitely see this recording being used in reference to some, uh, something else...

The next several things below here are some cuts and an edited remix from this mp3... which I think is called owlpussycat_lear_apc.mp3 on Librivox... It uh, sort of takes this whole remixing thing in a way different direction than I ever thought I'd take it...

Eee..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/eee.WAV


Honey..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/honey.WAV


Money..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/money.WAV


no..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/no.WAV


Oh..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/oh.WAV


Oh..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/oh2.WAV


ohh..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/ohh.WAV


Ohhh..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/ohhh.WAV


Ooo..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/ooo.WAV


ow..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/ow.WAV


up..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/up.WAV


you..
http://mastermesh.quotaless.com/you.WAV

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I've found that I like listening to Annie Coleman's mp3s on Librivox

I've found that I love the sound of Annie Coleman's Voice
on her recordings for Librivox.

She is one of the main people doing a lot of mp3s over there. Since the stuff over there is considered Public Domain, I'm going to use some cuts from those and will probably post them here, and/or just keep the cuts for my own purposes and post a lot of the remixes I make based on those recordings here.

Annie, if you read this, sorry if some of this stuff offends you in some way. That's one of the risks you take in releasing your voice on recordings in to the Public Domain.