Presentation: Jordan Rannells – Exploring the Legendarium in 3D Audio
- Created a 3D Audio experience for the Lord of the rings. Ambient sounds and music lines of the the Williams and Serkis audiobooks of the Lord of The Rings
- Demo with Farmer Maggot and the Hobbits riding in his cart. Showing the way different channels are used
- Demo from start of the Hobbit
- People who know the stories can just listen to the soundscape and if the know the story well they can guess where they are without the actual audiobook words
- So Far Hobbit, LoTR, First Happy Potter and Wheel of Time
- Working on the Silmarillion. This is got a lot more music since Ambient is not so useful since words don’t usually directly describe things happening in real time.
- Also working on more Wheel of Time and Tolkien “The Three Great Tales”
- Origin of project
- Started exclusively listening to audiobooks
- Heard the Phil Dragash version
- Listened to Star Wars versions but though they didn’t do as much music as liked
- Heard some dramatizations and wanted to do with the full full text
- Technology improved so multi-channels via headphones worked
- Most of the Ambient sounds came from libraries but created some himself
Presentation: Julian Barr – World Breaker
- Reading from his new Epic Fantasy Novel
- Inspired by Aus bushfires and Covid lockdowns
- Got comfort from old Fantasy Books
- “Heroes still exist and bad times don’t last forever”
- Rediscovered like of fairy-tales
- Mashing fairy-tales with high-fantasy
- Julian did a longing reading from the book
- Maps? – Country fairly small but quite detailed
- Languages? – No constructed languages in book
- Please expand on Origins
- Inspired by Australian communities surviving wildfires
- 21st century seems to require a lot of resilience
- Worried especially younger people despairing about the future
- But people are more adaptable than many give credit for
- Series says ordinary heroes still exist and can overcome
- Planned for 3+ in series . But working on other projects too
Presentation: Stephen Vrettos – The Sound of Silver
- Sliver is a motif in Legendarium
- The sound of the word works will in hhrase
- Sounds of silver: Soft tone
- Movement of water
- Gold in middle earth is often associated with evil
- Water in a spring is described as “falling silver”
- “murmuring of a silver stream”
- “sheer, heart-piercing silver, rang her voice”
- Brighter high-pitched sound than gold
- Lots and lots of examples. I wasn’t able to keep up.
- Goldberry – name is Gold, associated with Silver?
- But her name mostly comes from Water Lilies
- Probably the colour of the rushes
- Also the Gold-Substance is partially seperate from Gold-Colour
- Some discussion on the sound of Mithril
- silver is bells, mithril is Tubular Bells
Additional question for morning Speakers
- Some more discussion about Silver and other metals
- Julian talked a lot about apples trees in the extract he read and how apples trees are big in mythology
Discussion Panel: Anthony Lawther, Phillip Menzies and Elizabeth (Dizzy) Rodrigues-Schifter – Exploring Espressione in “Exploring the Lord of the Rings”
- Panel Discussion
- Posted version of the Exploring the Lord of the Rings theme
- Outlines who they started joining listening to the podcast
- Gave an overview of the podcast and what it is about
- “My Wife says: Can you put Corey on when we are in Bed so she can fall asleep”
- Talks above favorite bits of the podcast. eg exactly where Frodo was stabbed, the Wargs
- Poems each liked
- Dizzy – Road goes ever on
- Phil – I sit beside the Fire
- Anthony – Gimli’s song about Durin
- Giant Spreadsheet, showing stresses of words etc
- Questions about listening to the podcast, how much is about the book and how much other stuff.
