Richard is a good storyteller. Carefully and sparingly written and sound rich. Maybe too sound rich? Probably not but perilously close to sounding like distracting SFX by the end of the piece.
Still, well mixed and tightly edited and done with a delightful sense of playfulness and humor.
This piece begins with a melodramatic nod to a classic piece of literature and ends up in garbage and rust. It's an interesting comparison of the relative values of intentional vs. unintentional leavings for posterity: Ozymandias' boastful claim on eternity, time capsules, and casually discarded foodstuffs. The sound bed is active and amusing, but its very animation may compete with the author's voice for a tired listener's ear. Best aired when the listener is likely to be neither harried nor weary (whenever that might be).
Don't be put off by the reference to the Gospel of Luke. It's merely citing the source of a nonreligious parable.
I'd have called it Ozymandias Drives a '57 Plymouth. The addititon of a specific year gives the listener/reader a specific question to have answered: Why a '57 Plymouth? Getcha wonderin', gotcha listenin'.
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Bill Anderson
Posted on July 05, 2007 at 03:43 PM | Permalink
Review of Ozymandias drives a Plymouth - (It's just rust and a fin)
Richard is a good storyteller. Carefully and sparingly written and sound rich. Maybe too sound rich? Probably not but perilously close to sounding like distracting SFX by the end of the piece.
Still, well mixed and tightly edited and done with a delightful sense of playfulness and humor.
Jim Barfuss
Posted on June 21, 2007 at 04:53 PM | Permalink
Review of Ozymandias drives a Plymouth - A Commentary
This piece begins with a melodramatic nod to a classic piece of literature and ends up in garbage and rust. It's an interesting comparison of the relative values of intentional vs. unintentional leavings for posterity: Ozymandias' boastful claim on eternity, time capsules, and casually discarded foodstuffs. The sound bed is active and amusing, but its very animation may compete with the author's voice for a tired listener's ear. Best aired when the listener is likely to be neither harried nor weary (whenever that might be).
Don't be put off by the reference to the Gospel of Luke. It's merely citing the source of a nonreligious parable.
I'd have called it Ozymandias Drives a '57 Plymouth. The addititon of a specific year gives the listener/reader a specific question to have answered: Why a '57 Plymouth? Getcha wonderin', gotcha listenin'.