I’ve a longtime dream of being a voiceover or spoken word artist, and today, I’ve taken one more step towards making this dream come true: I recorded myself reading page 9 of Dune, which is one of my fave novels. The whole page is a particularly intense exercise in a certain emotion while offering enough variety to be exciting, as you’ll soon hear…
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The suspenseful music accompanying this reading is from Toto’s soundtrack to the Dune 1984 film. It happens to be from the corresponding scene. In a fit of synchronicity, the track only required time-stretching of a few seconds to match my performance, and the swells and climaxes come at all the right moments. This spontaneity was clearly meant to be!
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On the topic of voiceovers, have you heard of http://www.voiceactingalliance.com ?
You might be interested in that site if you’re into voicing things.
Wow, you’re reading great! Like the music in the background and your voice hehe ‘^_^
Mine’s still half-squeaky that kinda makes my fake american accent a bit too high, like I am “Smilah” ‘^_^ (aka: A woman lol).
Bravo Torley! Well done. It has been so long since seeing the movie (and much longer reading the book) I had forgotten just how well written they are. Thank you for bringing it back alive for me. Continue reading on please {:o)
@Shuffle: I gotta check that out… one step closer…
@Smiley: Thanks, I was very dramatic wasn’t I? I like different kinds of world accents, my English accent is LOLarious tho.
@Tinsel: Thanks much! I was so surprised to find the scene from the movie matched the time it took to read its counterpart in the book. I’m glad I went through with this spontaneity (and I hardly ever regret being spontaneous).