UPDATE: Video now available on Youtube, Rumble and Odysee.
It has been a while since I posted a video, so I added a poll on Youtube. The results strongly suggested it was time to rerecord the Little Office for Advent. One comment specifically requested Prime. So here it is.
Here are the issues with this recording:
background bird noise
background traffic noise
mistakes in pronunciation - adjuva instead of adjuvat and a “a” instead of “ae” at the end of another word
changing key for the closing antiphon - we actually launched into “Maria Virgo Assumpta Est”, the regular antiphon for Terce which is also Mode 8, then sang the correct “Missus Est” but we went up a tone in the process. I tried autotuning it, but it sounded autotuned, so left it as is. Raising the pitch for the closing antiphon happens to be something we often do for Compline as a family, so there you go.
We’re singing too fast.
We start a bit high - first thing in the morning most voices appreciate a lower pitch. For Mass we usually aim for A as a reciting note and here I did concede to a G, but it could have been a bit lower. The psalms are lower.
You may find other issues and that’s fine.
The thing with the bird noises is that when editing the audio the bird noises are still going on around me. The budgies respond to the bird calls in the recording, making even more bird noise. There was an idea to use the garage, which is partially underground. Maybe next time.
The prime booklet at littleoffice.brandt.id.au has also been updated.
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