2008-06-02-playing-with-sound-adding-downbeat-tempo-to-a-discourse-on-shakespeare.html

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title: Playing with Sound -- Adding Downbeat Tempo to a Discourse on Shakespeare
date: 2008-06-02 22:33:37.000000000 -07:00
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- technical-writing
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- Podcasting
status: publish
podcast_link: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/diglossia.mp3
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<p>A strange thing happens when you take an audio file of someone speaking and set it to music -- the two separate tracks combine such that the result is greater than the sum of the parts. For example, listen to the 3 minute track below that combines a 1981 speech by Shakespearean English scholar <a href="http://www.ldsvoices.com/index.php?id=977">Arthur Henry King</a> with <a href="http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2008/04/12/episode-93-mu-music/#more-2121">Kiln's Fyrepond</a>.</p>

<p>I have not altered either track in any way. I simply layered them together. Listening to both the speech and music brought together this way gives more depth to both.</p>
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