Writers: Consider adding audio?

[Jay Dougherty]

I was reading [Pank] the other day and noticed that they're regularly featuring audio of writers reading their work. I think that's a great touch. Now that we have a bigger server, we could easily host and include an audio of you reading your work (front page) if you have it.

It's actually easier for us, though, if you host your own work on a service that we can embed. SoundCloud is one such service. We can embed SoundCloud clips easily here on the front page. For SoundCloud, all you need, I think, is an account and a way to get audio into your computer. Probably any microphone that you can plug into your computer--including your phone headphones--will work. Better audio equipment is probably preferable. Maybe some folks here who have SoundCloud accounts can chime in about their usefulness (or lack of usefulness).

This site is not in any way affiliated with SoundCloud (or anyone else, haha). I'm just passing along info about the only audio hosting site that I know of. I'm sure there are others.

 

[Soodabeh Saeidnia]

Thank you! I would love to hear poems from the poets.

 

[Jay Dougherty]

So on the Readings page we have a few features that include SoundCloud clips, YouTube clips, and an mp3 file (from Milner) that we host on the server for this site. These are in addition to the text. So any of those approaches works.

Also gives us the opportunity to feature your work in more than one category (e.g., poetry and readings), which may help your work to reach more people.

 

[Tom Strong]

Good eye-deer.