Narrator and voiceover artist Xe Sands is both an innovator and entertainer. She’ll live-tweet read-throughs of novels she’s preparing to narrate (no spoilers, but plenty of entertaining thoughts) and most recently has begun an initiative called Going Public. Of the initiative, Xe writes:
“Every Friday, I produce a short piece of audio from a work in the public domain/shared via Creative Commons licensing. All are welcome to join in the celebration of such work – simply find a piece of artistic work that is in the public domain and share it (on your blog, via a sound clip, etc.), then tweet the link using the hashtag #GoingPublic. And for those looking for written works in the public domain, you really can’t do better than Project Gutenberg“
Source: Going Public – XeSands.com
In honor of Halloween, Xe Sands is featuring two Edgar Allan Poe pieces: his classic poem The Raven and his short story The Tell-Tale Heart. I encourage you to listen to both.
Xe takes a slightly different route with The Raven than you might be accustomed to, approaching it first as a story and allowing her interpretation to break the expected rhyming rhythm with which the poem is typically recited (and read). And The Tell-Tale Heart? Well, that’s a personal favorite of mine. It was one of the first horror stories I read when I was younger and introduced me to the world of psychological horror stories that were more complex and entertaining than anything else I had read before.
So give them a listen tonight with the lights turned low as the wind picks up outside. Happy Halloween!
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Xe Sands
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Xe Sands) by Xe Sands
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Xe Sands
The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Xe Sands) by Xe Sands
You can find and follow the Going Public offerings on Twitter here: #GoingPublic
Or on Xe Sands website here: http://www.xesands.com/going-public
You can find Xe Sands on Twitter at @XeSands
