An invitation

[jelazakazone]

I have been interested for a while in remixing podfics. I have one thing I am going to try to do, but have been somewhat blocked in other regards. So, if you want to remix podfics and have been feeling the same way (ie, lack of podfics to play with), feel free to use anything I have written and then podded. I recently podded several Merlin fics for the camelotremix challenge.

You can find all my podfics at AO3 here: readbyjela 

 I don't care what you do with them. If you are interested, go for it and have fun!

Comments

[susan_voight]

Alas, my queue of projects overflows, but I'm very interested what a remix will turn out to be in a podfic context!

[jelazakazone]

Me too! Thanks :D

[helens78]

How cool! :)

Can I piggyback onto your post and make the same offer to people? I'm very happy to have my podfics remixed! Here are podfics I both wrote and recorded (there's one read by luzula in there as well, but all the others are mine). I've mostly podficced authors who are really enthusiastic about remixing and podfic and different kinds of fanworks, though, so if something else I've podded catches someone's ear, you could almost certainly remix that, too.

[jelazakazone]

Of course! I can make a list on this post, actually.

I am wondering how you would feel about someone mixing your pods with someone else's? I'm totally game for this.

[helens78]

I would be totally up for that, too! :)

[jelazakazone]

\o/!

[cantarina]

If this is a thing you're really interested in, it may be worth it for you to hosting a round at multipodicity. I think Paraka's on record saying folk are welcome to do that.

[jelazakazone]

Hm, I'm thinking something more like remixes or fanvids. Do you think that would fit at multipodicity? I am happy to post wherever it seems most fitting!

[mistressjinx]

I feel like a ding-a-ling here, because I don't know what you actually mean by remixing a podfic. Could you elaborate for those of us (may only be me) that don't catch your meaning?

[thank you]

[jelazakazone]

Ok, almost a year ago (interestingly), I posted this paragraph in this comm:

I am wondering if anyone has taken podfics that have already been recorded and taken snippets and turned it into a new story. I just made my first podfic with music and, to be totally honest, I would have done something completely different (and may still yet) if I hadn't felt constrained by the conventions of what I've seen. I'd love to play with other people's voices and words, to mash it up and make something new.

There was some huge backlash to that post and I stepped away from that idea, but it hasn't left me completely, so I'm trying again, with podficcers who've written and performed their own stuff. Does that make more sense?

I'm thinking of something along the lines of a fanvid, but in audio format. Who knows what the possibilities are! If you go to that post (just look at all the entries from the comm, it's easy to find) you can see that someone (lunate8?) did something that like with stuff they had recorded.

I'm also thinking along the lines of found poetry or erasure poetry (where you erase words in a piece of text to get to new combinations of words).

It is my hope that people will be respectful with this, but of course, you can't control anyone.

[originally_dw]

I think this sounds like it could be really cool. If I had recorded anything I'd written myself I would definitely offer them for these kind of purposes (I mean, as it is, I'm fine with it but I guess you would need to check with the original authors that they were cool with it too? Was that the sticking point last time?)

[jelazakazone]

Yes, people were getting upset that author's words could be twisted, etc.

I have tons of (crappy) fic. Feel free to record anything there that catches your fancy and throw it in the pot. The more voices, the merrier I think!

[lunate8]

Ooh, audio erasure poetry sounds really cool, I can't wait to hear the results if/when you try it!

(And you've reminded me to polish up and post my experiment to AO3. :) )

[pensnest]

I have *no* idea how this will turn out, but it certainly sounds worth exploring. The podfics I've done are listed on my story page here. Several of them are in a series (the Chronicles) and I've recorded a couple of others of my own works, too. Including a poem, which might give you ideas! So if you can use it, go for it.

[jelazakazone]

Sweet! Thank you so much! I'm going to start making a list of people who have podfics they can contribute. Should I do that here?

Also, is that Alan Cumming in your icon? :D

[pensnest]

That sounds like a good idea. It's probably something that will have to start with people who've recorded things they themselves wrote, and if it catches on, writer+podder may be easier to sign on thereafter.

It is! Looking, I think, unsurprisingly smug.

[jelazakazone]

OK, I'll do that up above. Later.

Yeah, I'm figuring it will be a good place to start and if people start to see what can be done with it, more writers+podders will sign on and then we can take over the world. muaa haa haa.

OMG he is so cute. Did you hear his interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air a couple weeks ago? It's online so you can listen to it there if you haven't heard it yet. He's fabulous. I also love love love his reading of Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan trilogy. I might have to go listen to it again.

[kate]

Oh - I missed this first time around, but if you are still looking at people who have recorded their own fics, I have done this - only three fics, but here they are if you (or anyone else) would like to do something with them;

Crossed Wires
Last Minute Shopping (or Trials and Tribulations of the Pegasus Galaxy Mall)
Fill All They Bones With Aches

[jelazakazone]

Thanks so much! Just after I posted this, RL things ran away from me and I have not had a chance to do anything with it, but perhaps I will try something in July. Helpful to have a few different voices to start with. Thanks!

[jinkyo]

I have one self written/recorded public piece if you want: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1545248
Blanket permission statement is on my profile.