COMPLETE solo [ENGLISH] To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - hok

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COMPLETE solo [ENGLISH] To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - hok

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This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://legamus.eu/blog/?p=937

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (*1882 - † 1941)
Plot summary: The large Ramsey family, plus house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice.

The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book exploring some ways that people think and feel and relate. There's insight into the world of childhood thought and emotion, and a variety of views of adult perceptions and preoccupations. It also poignantly describes how the passing of time affects people and places, in both the greatest and most trivial of ways.

I hope this doesn't make it sound 'difficult'! It's also fun, exasperating, wistful and reassuring. It's perhaps as close as a novel can come to the highly individual experience of looking at a painting.
(Summary by Cori Samuel)
Text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100101.txt (please only read from this text!)

Prooflistener: barbara2

Magic Window

Intro, Outro and Disclaimer for CC0:
At the beginning of each file please say:
[Section number] of To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. This Legamus recording may be distributed and adapted freely for any purpose.
(First section only: Read by Cori Samuel.)
[Chapter title -- note multiple chapters in some sections]

At the end of each section please say:
End of [Section number]
At the end of the project please say additionally:
"End of To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Legamus.eu"

About recording:
Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz

Please leave 5 seconds silence at the end of your recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes!
Note: I've been using 5 seconds on all files, as per the recent change at LibriVox (since playback software doesn't lop off the last X seconds any more, a smaller safety margin is fine.)

Save files as:
128 kbps MP3
tothelighthouse_##_woolf.mp3
(all lower-case) where ## is your section number.
(shorten the first part of the filename if too long!)

Add the following tags to your .mp3 file

Title: ## - [Section title]
Artist: Virginia Woolf
Album: To The Lighthouse
Genre: Speech
Track Number: Section Number

How to upload your file:
Use http://upload.legamus.eu/ (MC/BC will provide login-info for you).
When your file is uploaded, you will get a link. Please post the link here.

And now?
Please check for new posts in this thread until your section has been prooflistened.

Happy recording :)

------------for your MC -----------------------------------
Wiki author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf
Wiki translator:
Wiki book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Lighthouse
published: 1927 / [language: English]
category: modernist fiction / Tags: family, Skye, art, nature, time, loss
username: Cori Samuel / http://piratelibrary.com
Section: 16 / preface: [**PREFACE**] / License: CC0
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Re: solo [ENGLISH] To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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I've been struggling with my other solo -- The Fairy Caravan -- because, and I know this is dreadful to say of dear Beatrix Potter, I've found it Rather Boring. (The guinea pig-centred first chapter is splendid, the rest is mostly sheep telling stories. :roll: )

I do intend to push through at some point! But, while procrastinating, I accidentally recorded the whole of To The Lighthouse.

And so here we are. 8-)
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Hi Cori,

I guess you don't want to MC this yourself? I set up the MW for you. You can take over any time you want or leave it to me.
PM you the password in a sec.
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Thank you, HP, I'd appreciate you looking after it, if that's okay. I've never been inducted as an MC here, and have even less idea of the process than at LibriVox. :D
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I've split the chapters into sections 20-40 mins long ... the first three are:

https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... _woolf.mp3 (0:31:57)
https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... _woolf.mp3 (0:29:58)
https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... _woolf.mp3 (0:36:06)
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Cori, am I right in understanding that you still need a DPL for this project?

If so, I put my hand up.

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Oooooh! Yes please, Barbara, that'd be amazing! Thank you :D
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Hi Cori,

Section 1 is PL OK. Your reading of it is a tour de force!

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I used my existing login password for the MW but got "no access".
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Sections 2 and 3 are PL OK Cori.

Thanks for doing the hard work for me - such complexity and subtlety!

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All hands on deck, we can move to readers found ...
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Thanks, HP! And, thank you, thank you, Barbara! :oops: 8-)

Section 4 is ready ... do you prefer it if I put the link here, or are you happy grabbing it straight from the Magic Window?
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Cori wrote: Thu 14. Sep 2017, 17:39
...
Section 4 is ready ... do you prefer it if I put the link here, or are you happy grabbing it straight from the Magic Window?
Section 4 is PL OK!

Straight from the Magic Window is fine, Cori. BTW, I still can't login to the MW.

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Sections 5 & 6 (a little shorter) are ready!
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We clearly suffer from a lack of written instructions here.

The BC/Soloist is supposed to pass on the password for the MW. It's a new one for every project. But nobody can keep all that stuff in their head. I passed the password to Barbara.
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And, thanks to you both, I've been able to mark Section 5 PL OK.

I never knew David Hume was enormously fat.

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Ah, some brief instructions would be good, HP -- I'd completely missed that was on me to do. Sorry for the frustration, Barbara!

The most ridiculously long Chapter 17 (sections 7 and 8) is done, whew! And no, I'd not really thought about it, but Hume is indeed a little above the middle size (as Austen and others nicely put it). I wonder if his portrait painter's name was a coincidence or an inspiration ...
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Cori wrote: Mon 18. Sep 2017, 22:38 ....
And no, I'd not really thought about it, but Hume is indeed a little above the middle size (as Austen and others nicely put it). I wonder if his portrait painter's name was a coincidence or an inspiration ...
A dinnae ken.

But Section 6 has been marked PL OK.

Ages ago I toyed with the idea of reading some of Virginia Woolf's Essays and was guided to Legamus. I hope it flourishes.

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Oooh, yes, do record some of those, Barbara! I can't be having all the Woolf fun ... :mrgreen:

Section 9 is finished, which concludes the first book.
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Section 7 is PL OK. What a fascinating soup course :)

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And Section 8 is PL OK too.

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