Stories of Oregon - Spoken word CD
You may be wondering what a CD is doing on a writer's website. Let me explain that the moment I decided to start this project I was overwhelmed by the amount of writing, editing and marketing involved. From writing the "call out" to writers, to writing the intro, to developing and editing the stories, to writing press releases, it was one deadline driven, intense writing exercise from start to finish. I learned so much about so many things I can't even describe it all. Plus, I had a blast.
Here's how it all began. One of my best friends, Andy, is a voice artist who has voiced a number of commercials, public service announcements and read literally hundreds of books for the blind. One day we were talking about his interest in voice and my interest in writing. At the time I was co-editor of a new online magazine so had access to a pretty wide group of talented writers.
We decided it might be fun to combine our talents and turn out a CD. Since we are both long time Oregon residents, Andy is actually a native, we decided we'd put together something that wasn't just about Oregon but about Oregonians. We wanted to capture that rather undefinable something that's uniquely Oregon. Sort of a 1 part frontiersman, 1 part environmentalist, a little urban culture all tossed together and stirred with a lot of rural landscape.
We talked Andy's brother Dean, also a voice artist, into joining the venture then convinced my journalist, and former child actor friend, Lisa, to be our female voice. Finally we met with with Milen Slavov, an internationally renowned musician from Bulgaria who came to the US on the sort of visa they only give to creative geniuses. He agreed to compose a unique musical score to match each of the stories. We also wove those scores as musical interludes throughout the CD.
The result of our efforts is Stories of Oregon. We've marketed the CD in a number of ways and so far our best results have been through local wineries. Realtors also like to buy the CD to tuck into welcome baskets. Of course we did try to market Stories of Oregon to the obvious outlet, the Made in Oregon chain of stores. Unfortunately a couple of the stories are a little controversial for a mainstream audience. Empty Ends looks at racial prejudice and in Come Back we actually have a fisherman pissing in the ocean!
I hope to load some audio clips soon but in the meanwhile you can hear (or even purchase) Stories of Oregon at www.cdbaby.com
More about Stories of Oregon: The Valley Times, The Argus, A Press Release, The One Sheet
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