For my second Make and Share I completed another DS106 assignment with a dramatic reading of song lyrics with a different song in the background. After it was complete, I planned to upload it to SoundCloud, but their questions made me concerned with copyright issues, so am just posting it here. I got more familiar with Audacity with this project, although my end results are only a learning experience and of no use. My so-called dramatic reading sounds pretty nutty.The lyrics are from Happy, by Pharell Williams, found online. The background music is Phantom of the Opera performed by The Starlite Orchestra from a CD I own called The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber .
In response to the comment from Chris, here is the same file on Soundcloud:
I really like this concept, and for what it’s worth, I think you did a great job for someone with little experience in Audacity!
A little digging into the copyright of this song (assuming I have the right album) shows me that that recording is owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s own Really Useful Group, Ltd. from 1986. I’m not exactly sure if this particular recording is shared under the Creative Commons, so it’s probably for the best you stayed on the side of caution and didn’t upload to SoundCloud.
Either way, good job!
Thanks, Hailey!
I have to say this sounds a little insane but I thought it was really funny. Well done.
This is one of the more bizarre things I’ve ever heard! Yet I appreciate the creativity required to do this. Interesting song choices and your reading is quite dramatic, indeed! I’m definitely tempted to play around with this as one of my future make and shares. It’s amazing how sinister ‘Happy’ can seem now!
Yes–you get it! I thought the two were so different that the combination might be interesting. I think my maniacal reading may have increased the sinister aspect.
Nutty is right…and I love it! I so enjoy when people just make something crazy and cool and actually feel OK with my directions that it’s OK to do that completely independent of the topic of the course. The idea is to make something new using some new idea or tool or method…and you did that in spades!
Also, I’m going to disagree a little and say that by remixing as you did, you have a solid case for Fair Use. Reclaim Fair Use! No More copyright fear!
Whether that means SoundCloud’s bots would agree is possibly a different matter, but what’s the worst that can happen? Not much, that’s what. I say put it up there, particularly if you haven’t used SoundCloud before…it’s good experience to use it and figure out how to embed it in your site.
Chris, I revised my post and added embedded it from Soundcloud. It certainly looks nicer than the soundbar that I initially posted.
Thanks for taking the time to do that! And it definitely adds an element of attractiveness to the post…