Ed,
Thanks for these suggestions. I'm trying different voice recording programs: Garageband on my Mac is working okay and Audacity which my friend suggested for podcasts (I still can't figure it out though...). In the meantime, I'm at least trying to get some relevant material recorded. When I have something decent, I'll try to figure out how to send it to you for critique. (One of my little baby pigeon patients died yesterday, so I keep spontaneously crying in the middle of my recording attempts of Bob's Old Growth essay...adds an interesting kind of pathos! And one of the birds flew by the microphone at one point, so, if the recording is ever deemed listenable - Lee can look forward to hearing the flapping wings of a juvenile NYC pigeon learning to fly...) I've figured out how to fade background music/sound in and out, which is cool. Also checking out "librivox" - any published work in the public domain can be recorded and uploaded to this site for anyone to listen to. The readers are all volunteers. Anyway. Thanks. Hope all is well enough. Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Edward Frank <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, Nov 8, 2009 1:39 am Subject: [ENTS] Re: ENTS Podcast? Jennifer, You were wondering about materials to use in the Podcasts. I might suggest that there are some older historical essays that could be voiced. For example John Muir wrote a longer essay entitled "American Forests" in 1897 from which excerpts could be taken. This is public domain material now so that is not a problem. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MuiAmer.html There is a large amount of Muir material available at http://www.archive.org even some existing voice recordings put into public domain by their readers. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=John%20muir One of the spots in Massachusetts where ENTS visit is Bryant Woods, on the homestead of William Cullen Bryant. He also is well represented in the archive: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=william%20cullen%20bryant The is a posting of the poem the Rivulet on a plaque along the trail through the woods: http://www.nativetreesociety.org/events/forestsummit2/forest_summit_ii.htm These would not be the meat of the podcasts for ENTS but could serve as some variety linking the work we are doing now to the past. Edward Frank Check out my new Blog: http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/ (and click on some of the ads) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
