My account seems to have disappeared and/or gone inactive somehow, for reasons unknown. I'll be taking it up with my customer service representative (or possibly chat bot) tonight.

It should be fixed now. Their bots do seem to work.

The sky above the port...
Godzilla

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Originally posted by colin:
It should be fixed now. Their bots do seem to work.

yup. works now.
what have you done to your throat to make your voice sound like that??

Okay, here are my readings. My sky above the port.

And it took a long time to decide which favorite passage to read, but this one is definitely one of them.

Sorry about the irritating hum. Damn cheap ass microphone.

ok. i take back what i said about colin's voice.
its the conversion process to mp3.
its the only way i can explain why i sound like i do.

i've put up a streaming version of the neuromancer clip along with the similar passage from count zero. need to sort out some way of hosting stuff, but this will do for now hopefully

listen

the files aren't that big, so i guess i could also email them to anyone who actually, really, really wants to have copies of them, for some reason.
email at myprofilename@yahoo.co.uk and i'll send them to anyone who wants them.

count zero

and

neuromancer

seems to be away of doing free downloads

Yeah, my voice sounds funny because I sound funny, but also because of noise removal (I also had a buzz El Gringo) and mostly the mp3 conversion. I thought it sounded kinda cyber, so I don't mind much.

P.S. Your links bring up some kind of front page, RP, and I haven't mustered the courage and/or energy to press the "Free" button at the bottom yet. Maybe when I'm not at work.

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Originally posted by colin:
P.S. Your links bring up some kind of front page, RP, and I haven't mustered the courage and/or energy to press the "Free" button at the bottom yet. Maybe when I'm not at work.

yeah it just seems to be the way it works.
i've come across it a few times so thought i would give it a go.
you click on the free button, it brings up another page, counts down then gives you the link.

bit convoluted, but hopefully gets the job done.

It works. Colin sounded ultrabass. RP sounds as if he had been smoking Russian cigarettes for decades.

Both are plenty cyber for me.

I also like a lot the CZ opening. But I wanted something from the Bridge series, to balance the overbearing visual images from the Sprawl.

And the Bridge has Yamazaki, as Colin shows in all his alien glory.

El Gringo sounds almost normal, a human being, at last. And he has chosen such an evocative piece. "Business as usual. World without end." As bleak in his reading as I feared when I first read it. And proof of how good Gibson is when molding the beginning of a book.

José

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Originally posted by JRE:
It works. Colin sounded ultrabass. RP sounds as if he had been smoking Russian cigarettes for decades.


José

the scary thing is i don't smoke and i never have.
i've just got the hint of a cold or something. then the mp3 seems to have slowed it, deepened it, and all that. sounds funny though.

tempted to chuck up a piece from m. john harrison next, re-my passages suggestion.

It wouldn't let me have the file. Someone else behind the same proxy has apparently been making "massive downloads".

And if I was a total thread-classification Nazi, I would have to suggest moving this into Random. Lucky I'm not.

I need to get some suitable webspace. I have a strong urge to record a reading of the SenseNet run over a self-made drum and bass track now.

Well done, all.

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Originally posted by colin:
It wouldn't let me have the file. Someone else behind the same proxy has apparently been making "massive downloads".

And if I was a total thread-classification Nazi, I would have to suggest moving this into Random. Lucky I'm not.

meh. that does seem to be one of the limitations of that set up. it stops folk from downloading too much in the space of an hour.

but in terms of it being free, giving you plenty of space to work with, it seems like a good deal on basic level.

i can only suggest trying again, then the time limit for whoever else is downloading should have passed. or i can email you them. the count zero one is the bigger of the two and is just over 1MB, so nothing huge.

Got them later from home, no worries. And it does sound like you've being abusing your bronchial tubes in some fashion. I mean that in a good way.

Yes, this is something that Mr. Gibson might approve of but, I have a copy of Neuromancer read by the author so possibly he might be amenable to creating an audio version of Pattern Recognition That would really float my boat!!