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[...] Jones, Hannah Stephenson and I participated in an experiment up at Whale Sound today – we all recorded ourselves reading the same poem, We Were Engineered to Want by Hannah [...]
Hearing three so distinct voices read the same poem is a wonderful experience. Each of the readings produced a poem with a different “feel”, a different sense of emphasis and interpretation. Going back and re-listening after hearing all three opens up the aural experience.
I hope you do this again.
I’ve been amusing myself by playing all three at the same time. Yes, you should do this again!
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I did that, too, Dave! Played them simultaneously as a choral reading, which is really neat with that phrase “drape our needs over them” toward the end of the poem!
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