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**marsjams13** · 06-08-2007, 07:44 AM

. . .and also to have the 5.1 system to play it on.

**benedict** · 06-08-2007, 07:54 AM

OR 5.1! now that would be tight.

**heartbreak** · 06-08-2007, 08:32 AM

I'm sure this has been noticed and just not commented on, but I thought it was a nice touch that iTunes has it listed as "(p) 2007 Circle Round A Stone"

**Ellimist** · 06-08-2007, 09:24 AM

Great idea... and Circle Round A Stone rules... YEAH!

**g@rp** · 06-08-2007, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Ellimist

Haha. Near the bottom of the first post by Hazel.

Thanks !

And great idea for the 5.1 !

4 reels downloaded from iTunes, and I began to listen, this morning, while driving : great experience. Love the music, and sounds on certain words. But, Ellimist is right : there's something strange with Hailey(xis) voice, OR accent. On purpose ?

**elmago** · 06-09-2007, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by marsjams13

Personally (and maybe I'm old fashioned), I'd rather have a physical copy. I haven't listened to much yet though, so what do you mean about the quality? Is it recorded poorly, or is the reading itself not good?

Well, the mp3 seems to sound good enough for an mp3. My comment is more about the reading itself. I've listened to MZD in various other performances, and I don't like this particular one a lot. Hailey, I don't like her at all. I don't think I could listen to her for 4.5 hours. I liked some of the auditioners a lot better than MZD and Hailey girl. The OR Audio Project is kind of a letdown for me right now.

**heartbreak** · 06-09-2007, 07:56 AM

i've started playing around with mixing the sam and hailey tracks together, i've finished a two minute trial run, it sounds pretty damn wicked

**g@rp** · 06-09-2007, 08:49 AM

Can we taste your mix ?
If you agree, send me an MP, I'll give you my mail...

**heartbreak** · 06-09-2007, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by g@rp

Can we taste your mix ?
If you agree, send me an MP, I'll give you my mail...

Let me check with the powers that be first, and if they don't mind me giving out a sample, I'ld be glad to send it round.

Edit: I've gotten the go ahead to post a sample. Coming shortly as soon as I figure out the details.

**heartbreak** · 06-09-2007, 02:31 PM

Sam and Hailey Two Minute Sample

Thanks goes to Zed and the other Z for their anticipation of this sort of mix and the hard work they put in to make it possible.

**Johnny Truant** · 06-09-2007, 03:12 PM

I downloaded the two minute sample. It works really well for the first thirty seconds or so. Then it starts to sound almost like a train wreck as the reading doesn't sound so in sync. It was interesting though, thanks for sharing!

**heartbreak** · 06-09-2007, 03:17 PM

You're welcome.

I think it does that because Alexis reads a bit faster then Mark does. I think it adds a nice sort of echo, and it doesn't stay out of sync, they go in and out of sync, over the course of the tracks.

**Ellimist** · 06-09-2007, 03:27 PM

Neat.

**Ellimist** · 06-09-2007, 06:41 PM

Okay, so I bought and downloaded Reel 1 from PayPlay.fm.

It sounds really crisp and clear - very nice. However, the site says "All tracks are 192kbps high fidelity sound quality."

It is not 192 Constant Bit Rate, I believe it is Average Bit Rate, so that there is more data in use when there is a lot of sound, and when there is just some soft spokenness and no music, it is only at 128 kbps. I think the range is 128-224, just from observation.

Hrm...

MZD's voice is so much more powerful than Alexis's... Not just loud, but more imposing and it makes you want to listen.

**g@rp** · 06-10-2007, 05:24 AM

Originally Posted by heartbreak

Sam and Hailey Two Minute Sample

Thanks goes to Zed and the other Z for their anticipation of this sort of mix and the hard work they put in to make it possible.

Downloaded ! Thanks a lot !
But i'll listen later, cause Mme g@rp is working, and she demands silence. So...

**heartbreak** · 06-10-2007, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by g@rp

Downloaded ! Thanks a lot !
But i'll listen later, cause Mme g@rp is working, and she demands silence. So...

Cool. Let me know what you think.

The tracks start lining up more as it goes on and it sounds great on head phones.

**CpVb006** · 06-10-2007, 06:39 AM

I don't know if anyone else has noticed or thought on this yet, but, in regard to the now-unreleased Reel 5:

Plus three Bonus Tracks:

Little Runaway by Poe, written when she was a teenager. Piano by Nathan Rosenberg.

Revolutions Of Ruin by Mark Z Danielewski & Kenneth Burgomaster. With very special thanks to Kimberly Beder, Eamon Cannon, Kevin Connolly, Carolyn Eilola, Christy Gordon, Gwen, Siobhan Hanson, Erik Hartley, Heartbreak, Paul Jensen, Kristin Larch, Alexis Madden, Jeff Moody, Curtis Rasico, Johnny Rogers, Nowlin Scoggins, Clayton Sims, Fearful Syzygy and of course G@rp.

Prelude by Mark Z Danielewski, Kenneth Burgomaster and Richard Wagner.

I'm looking forward to finding out what this is. I was talking to heartbreak about it, and he suggested maybe it's the instrumental track that played on this flash site (now hosted elsewhere) before the book's release. Seems like a good guess, though I'm still hoping for something totally new.

Either way, I like how this 'Prelude' is listed on the last track of Reel 5, which should technically be the end of the audio, but suggests it's also, again, the beginning.

**Johnny Truant** · 06-10-2007, 08:59 AM

The Prelude track is the ORPrelude from the old preview flash site. Unfortunately it isn't anything "brand new". The Poe track is pretty brand new to the rest of us though.

**Ellimist** · 06-10-2007, 11:08 AM

I hope we get Reel 5 soon.

I particularly want to hear the end being read by MZD.

**Typhonae** · 06-11-2007, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by marsjams13

If anyone is good with mixing, what I'd really like is a mix with sam's part in one speaker and hailey's in the other. Of course the closer to the middle it gets, the mix will change -with both part coming simultaneously out of both sides in the middle and then slowly switching sides to the end.

Now that would be cool.

Sam III.5 Choose [ Pg 177 - 184 ]
Hailey III.5 Choose [ Pg 177 - 184 ]

Has that type of thing.

**Ellimist** · 06-12-2007, 10:06 AM

hoo-ah!

http://payplay.fm/danielewski5

**heartbreak** · 06-12-2007, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Ellimist

hoo-ah!

http://payplay.fm/danielewski5

Great!

**CpVb006** · 06-12-2007, 01:34 PM

Oooh, tempting.

I'm going to try and hold out for Reel 5 on iTunes a bit longer, but they really seem to be taking their time with it.

*taps foot impatiently*

**heartbreak** · 06-12-2007, 06:22 PM

I just used payplay to download reel 5 and it was really easy. Not alot of hassle at all.

**g@rp** · 06-13-2007, 10:31 AM

Wow !
But impossible to connect to iTunes right now !
Gonna get it on Payplay.

**g@rp** · 06-13-2007, 10:36 AM

What the f...is doing iTunes ? Taking their time, uh ?
OK. Definitely : Payplay.

**socks4tay** · 06-13-2007, 07:22 PM

It turned out a lot different than I had thought it might. Hailey's voice sounds higher than I ever would have imagined, a little too childish for here to feign being so wizened at just sixteen. Her O's don't sound full enough. I don't know. I would have liked a deeper voice, something a bit more foreboding generally, with the music as well, I want it to be as dark as Revolutions of Ruin which was so amazing.
I also liked the different faces of that track. It might have been an interesting product if they had combined all of the auditioners into the book reading. It would show how ever changing the characters are.

**CpVb006** · 06-20-2007, 11:42 AM

Just so everyone's aware,

Reel 5 is now up on iTunes.

**Johnny Truant** · 06-20-2007, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by CpVb006

Just so everyone's aware, Only Revolutions Reel 5 is now up on iTunes.

Thanks for the iTunes update, I'd forgotten to check this morning. (They update usually on Tuesdays, but for some reason did the first four reels on Wednesday... and now the fifth as well.)

I'll buy the iTunes version, just to have a complete iTunes set, but I'd already gotten reel five from payplay and I'm planning to get the Musicishere flacs as well once they become available.

Overall, I'm a bit disappointed in the audio presentation. The

of Leaves audio project was great and I was hoping for more of the same, but I think the voices are a bit different than I expected and the backing music is a bit too repetitive for my liking. I'll probably warm up to it as a whole when I have more time to invest in it.

Still great that Mark and Alexis took the time to read it all out in a full production sort of way, and excellent that Danny Elfman and Poe contributed as well. I guess I was just expecting a bit "more" and got a minimal "less".