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National Poetry Month Almost Got Away
Hear ye, hear ye! I didn't even know that April is National Poetry Month until today.
So this blog posting is about two-thirds of the way to being late to the party.
A dear friend of ours sent us some readings of her poetry, and that gave us the idea to try an experiment... (This is your final Guinea Pig Warning! If you are not prepared to have your ears assaulted, please exit through the side door immediately.)
Last weekend, we prevailed upon author Kajolium Broadwick to join us in the fabled Pack Rat Studio* here in Santa Banana, where he was kind enough to record a trial-run of poetry by Shenanigan Cheesefield, specifically The Mildewed Paper Collection. This took hours and hours and hours and was really boring by the time we had the raw cuts completed.
Then, we spent far too much time slaving over screenfuls of hot audio editing software to produce a set of MP3 files which will never become a hit. In fact the MP3 Audio edition is so limited that if you hurry-hurry and scurry over within the next few days, you can download—absolutely free—an Advance Listening Copy of the resulting Cheesefield Audio-Book. (Warning: the zip file was a 10MB download and contained a baker's dozen MP3 files plus a text file and you're too late to download it.) Intrepid listeners who have trouble with comprehension if they don't have the score in front of them, can check the SROP DIY page and download the printed version of the book.
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* Pack Rat Studio "B" is where, in April 1987, The Ungrateful Bread recorded their final album, Rising with the Yeast, before their simultaneous immaculate dissolution into a rainbow over the Pacific Ocean.
So this blog posting is about two-thirds of the way to being late to the party.
A dear friend of ours sent us some readings of her poetry, and that gave us the idea to try an experiment... (This is your final Guinea Pig Warning! If you are not prepared to have your ears assaulted, please exit through the side door immediately.)
Last weekend, we prevailed upon author Kajolium Broadwick to join us in the fabled Pack Rat Studio* here in Santa Banana, where he was kind enough to record a trial-run of poetry by Shenanigan Cheesefield, specifically The Mildewed Paper Collection. This took hours and hours and hours and was really boring by the time we had the raw cuts completed.
Then, we spent far too much time slaving over screenfuls of hot audio editing software to produce a set of MP3 files which will never become a hit. In fact the MP3 Audio edition is so limited that if you hurry-hurry and scurry over within the next few days, you can download—absolutely free—an Advance Listening Copy of the resulting Cheesefield Audio-Book. (Warning: the zip file was a 10MB download and contained a baker's dozen MP3 files plus a text file and you're too late to download it.) Intrepid listeners who have trouble with comprehension if they don't have the score in front of them, can check the SROP DIY page and download the printed version of the book.
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* Pack Rat Studio "B" is where, in April 1987, The Ungrateful Bread recorded their final album, Rising with the Yeast, before their simultaneous immaculate dissolution into a rainbow over the Pacific Ocean.
Exposing the Secret Life of Mantissa Etherbright
Long before she took up the sarod, long before she embarked on her present successful musical career, Mantissa Etherbright wrote poems in secret. Until now, her work has been seen by few living people, aside from instructors and girlfriends. Now, due to the dogged perseverance of her grandmother (Pansy Schneider-Horst), her wife (Sanguinity Hematode), and the furry-faced folks at Smashed-Rat-on-Press, Ms Etherbright has decided to make public a passel of early poetical works. (This is a cause of much angst, in case you were wondering, atop the mainly-teen angst of the poems themselves.) The poems will be bundled and published in 2015 under the title
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No publication date has been set, but SROP is currently preparing a limited edition consisting of signed-and-numbered copies, available by subscription only.
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No publication date has been set, but SROP is currently preparing a limited edition consisting of signed-and-numbered copies, available by subscription only.
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