[LAU] 1 and 2 and 3 and 4

Hi! I would like to remind you of my call for contributions. Take your chance of becoming part of a crowd of people all around the world, counting to the rhythm in several languages! Contributors will be credited in order of their submissions and this will also likely influence the order of use in the track ;) Besides recording yourself and family and friends and pets (if they are able to count), you can help by spreading the word. What I'm after are recordings of one person at a time, saying: A: "One Two Three Four" B: "One and Two and Three and Four and" C: "Beat" (to be translated to whatever makes sense 4 times in one measure at 4/4. A single utterance is enough, as I want to use these as accent.) - Translated in a native language and any language spoken without much of an accent. If there are special ways of counting to the beat in a language, use those (only or even better additionally) and inform me. - With a tempo of 110 beats per minute (to be very clear, the "and" has to be between beats ;). - A and B should ideally be recorded with about 4 iterations (4 measures) Don't think that your language will already be well-represented without you. Others might think the same ;) Also, the more I can layer in one language, the better. All files should be: - ideally wavpacked, or plain WAV as second choice - 32 bit float, 48 KHz - Trimmed - Normalized - Dry - Explicitly licensed as http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ or released to the Public Domain _Only_ if you don't record with a JACK application, 16 and 24 bit integer formats are also acceptable. Please name the files as follows: - firstname_lastname_language_count.wav for "One Two Three Four" - firstname_lastname_language_count_and.wav for "One and Two ..." - firstname_lastname_language_beat.wav for "Beat" Email attachments are no option for such large files, so only send links to uploads. Consider using http://www.getdropbox.com/ if you have no other space. Please mail me off-list for submissions and on-list for questions. I'm also available as thorwil in #lad and #ardour at irc.freenode.net. My intention is to offer the result and the material on archive.org. This is an open-source project ;) I also want to submit a version to the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase I can't promise to use all contributions. I will sort out ones that sound suspiciously different from others claimed to be in the same language ;) However, all serious contributors will be given credit. Extended deadline: I will start to work with the material as soon as I have enough, but will accept more until the 23rd of January. Thanks! -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/