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Free Audio Short Story in MP3 Format: The Point
July 25th, 2008
I’m ahead of the curve on science topics, usually, a bit behind on technology. At least compared to some of my very tech-savvy friends whom I talk with. I’m starting to catch up, a little. As an experiment, I have made an MP3 format recording of myself reading one of my shorter short stories, “The Point,” written for a University event last year. The reading is about ten minutes long. I used an Xbox 360 Rockband microphone (!) and the software Audacity. I used some noise reduction and normalization on the final version of the file. It’s not quite as professional as I’d like, but it’s fun to be able to do things like this. I want to learn to do some video work, too, which doesn’t seem like it has to be difficult given some of the people I see on youtube.
The point of the story itself was finding a way to work with the latest ideas in cosmology in combination with a humanistic view of the universe.
Enjoy “The Point.” I posted the text last fall.
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