French Soundbites vol.1 released

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What are you waiting for ?
I've been looking for ages to get some French spoken and sung samples'n loops ! :roll:
Let the first load roll in, allons enfants de KVR... :D

CU,

Max... .. . :P
Carpo diem ergo sum !

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It's high on my to-do list :D

Any specific requests?

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Okay I'm compiling one liners and short extracts mostly from 19th or early 20th century poets, like Baudelaire, Verlaine and the like.

Still open to other requests.

I think I'll record the various sentences in different tones of voices: whisper, low, normal, angry, etc. I think. Perhaps.

Will keep y'all posted.
d

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Looking forward to this, thanks! :hyper:
"What embecile composed this list :/"

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OK I recorded a bunch yesterday but have to start again due to some weird sound interference.

Just to let you guys know this is actually going to happen.

Requests are still open.

Here's what's going to be inside:

BAUDELAIRE
Son parfum doux comme un secret
Dans les solitudes profondes

Vers le Ciel, où son oeil voit un trône splendide,
Le Poète serein lève ses bras pieux,
Et les vastes éclairs de son esprit lucide
Lui dérobent l'aspect des peuples

Et la solennité de la nuit, comme un fleuve
Sur Paris dormant ruisselait

Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir.

Souviens-toi que le Temps est un joueur avide
Qui gagne sans tricher, à tout coup ! c'est la loi.

Garde tes songes ;
Les sages n'en ont pas d'aussi beaux que les fous

L'orage rajeunit les fleurs
Cette beauté, sombre comme le fer,
Est de celles que forge et polit l'Enfer

Pourtant, sous la tutelle invisible d'un Ange,
L'Enfant déshérité s'enivre de soleil,
Et dans tout ce qu'il boit et dans tout ce qu'il mange
Retrouve l'ambroisie et le nectar vermeil.

La Terre est un gâteau plein de douceur

Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées
Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer

Le Temps mange la vie,
Et l'obscur Ennemi qui nous ronge le coeur
Du sang que nous perdons croît et se fortifie

Seule l'histoire n'a pas de fin.

Savoir, tuer et créer

dans le mal se trouve toute volupté.

Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres

La Débauche et la Mort sont deux aimables filles,
Prodigues de baisers et riches de santé,
Dont le flanc toujours vierge et drapé de guenilles
Sous l'éternel labeur n'a jamais enfanté.

L'ombre avec la chaleur, la nuit avec le jour

L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.

L'air est plein du frisson des choses qui s'enfuient.
Les vrais voyageurs sont ceux-là qui partent pour partir.

VERLAINE
Elle ne savait pas que l'Enfer, c'est l'absence.

Je fais souvent ce rêve étrange et pénétrant
D'une femme inconnue, et que j'aime, et qui m'aime,
Et qui n'est, chaque fois, ni tout à fait la même
Ni tout à fait une autre, et m'aime et me comprend.

L'étang reflète,
Profond miroir,
La silhouette
Du saule noir
Où le vent pleure ...

RIMBAUD

Esclaves, ne maudissons pas la vie
c'est l'explosion qui éclaire mon abîme de temps en temps.

L'éternité
C'est la mer mêlée
Au soleil

La marche, le fardeau, le désert, l'ennui et la colère.

J'ai tendu des cordes de clocher à clocher ; des guirlandes de fenêtre à fenêtre ; des chaînes d'or d'étoile à étoile, et je danse

Les aubes sont navrantes. Toute lune est atroce et tout soleil amer

La vraie vie est absente. Nous ne sommes pas au monde.

Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère.

Je est un autre.

L'amour est à réinventer.

APPOLINAIRE

Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne.

Je chante la joie d'errer et le plaisir d'en mourir.

NERVAL

L'ignorance ne s'apprend pas.

Je n'ai pu percer sans frémir ces portes d'ivoire ou de corne qui nous séparent du monde invisible.

Je ressème à ses pieds les dents du vieux dragon.

Je suis le Ténébreux, - le Veuf, - l'Inconsolé, - Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie: - Ma seule Etoile est morte, - et mon luth constellé - Porte le Soleil noir de la Mélancolie.

Ne m'attends pas ce soir car la nuit sera noire et blanche.

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Let me know if anyone wants some spoken Chinese with an American accent...

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Gregjazz wrote:Let me know if anyone wants some spoken Chinese with an American accent...
Why not? As long as it comes with the translation ;)

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This idea is hot. I had a friend that was German but spoke French do this when i was in my romantic house phase a few years back. I still have the soundbytes around here somewhere. I'll upload to y'all if i can find them, its a small sample pack, maybe 10 megs in size, but the recordings didnt come out to convincing to me, sounded, well, like a German reading French, lol, plus the mic was a low level Shure I think I had way back. Thinking bout it now, it would be great for some crazy dirty house or glitchy stuff.
I wouldn't mind hearing some cutesie Korean, or Japanese, girls speaking some phrases. If we can do that I'll be grateful. I could sample it from TV, but I have no idea what theyre saying!
Why cry about your own desires, when I could have them and leave you standing in the sadness of your own....

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pough wrote: I can provide poorly-executed Japanese. Who wants some Japanese?
You're gonna execute some poor Japanese?! :shock: :P

Themz not good eats... :wink:

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johnnytluxury wrote:This idea is hot. I had a friend that was German but spoke French do this when i was in my romantic house phase a few years back. I still have the soundbytes around here somewhere. I'll upload to y'all if i can find them, its a small sample pack, maybe 10 megs in size, but the recordings didnt come out to convincing to me, sounded, well, like a German reading French, lol, plus the mic was a low level Shure I think I had way back. Thinking bout it now, it would be great for some crazy dirty house or glitchy stuff.
I wouldn't mind hearing some cutesie Korean, or Japanese, girls speaking some phrases. If we can do that I'll be grateful. I could sample it from TV, but I have no idea what theyre saying!
Well I sure would like to hear this. Do you think you could put it on the internet archive for instance? that's where I was thinking of putting my stuff. With proper tagging people will be able to find similar sound files, etc.

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i'm throwing a plus one, and asking, you're saying giving these up "free as in beer" right? so, i could stick this in my thread i just started? personally, i love vocal samples, so anything you come up with would be sweet...

you didn't record baudelaire? ahh.... the one guy i read and i get in the middle of a passage, and start screaming and crying it out loud as if i haven't read it in a hundred years... where can i get it?

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this really insterest me so post away it would be cool to have some french on top of some layed back jazz or even some French in some tradional french music. SO post away!
In the midst of life
what shall I compare it to
Daybreak, emptiness left behind a rowing boat.
"Sami Mansei"

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Ford Prefect wrote:You're gonna execute some poor Japanese?!
Only because the rich one are harder to catch.
Ford Prefect wrote:Themz not good eats...
Mmm... Soyurentogureen Don!
Surely there must be consensus by now...

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Well sorry I have been so long, but now I'm almost done...

I need to rename the files, find a host, etc.; but here's how these samples sound ( a few snippets loaded in Highlife and played with the keyboard, with Highlife reverb delay added - the samples aren't processed):

http://vimcortez.free.fr/FrenchSoundbites1demo.mp3

I'm hoping to finish the job in the next fews days, that's about 40 short snippets; but many of them can be cut into individual words (cf. the quotations list in one of the previous posts)

cheers

d

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this is awesome!

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