Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/October 2011

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Genesis 1

Reason

This is a good example of cantillation reading of Genesis 1:1-5

Creator

Nahum

Articles in which this recording appears

Genesis 1:1

• Nominate and support. Guerillero | My Talk 22:13, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
• I can't judge in terms of the expectations of high-performance religious or artistic practice. The voice is very dry, which seems to me to be a disadvantage in anyone's terms. The diction is ok. The sound description page could have information on what verses 1–15 say. A complete English translation would be good, if it can be pulled from the bible in a snap (maybe it's slightly different, though). Tony (talk) 01:28, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
  • I will work on it tony --Guerillero | My Talk 03:38, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose. Very interesting and it's great to hear this, but the recording is distorted thanks to the peak clipping that occurs throughout (especially notable at about 0:02) and I don't feel I can support it as an FS. In addition, at 0:38 there is a nasty distortion and some odd background noise a few seconds before. I tried fixing the peak clipping in Sound Forge but it really doesn't sort out the problem properly. Performance is very good as far as I can tell. A shame. Is there any possibility of Nahum re-doing this? Ben (Major Bloodnok) (talk) 20:25, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
  • His Userpage says this "I am now on a Long-term Wiki vacation for an undefinite period." So i guess no. --Guerillero | My Talk 01:49, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

• Withdrawn by nominator --Guerillero | My Talk 14:36, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Delist: Maple Leaf Rag 2008

Previous nomination: Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Maple Leaf Rag

• Nominate to delist as while there are some good parts of the performance I don't think it is quite in "our best work" territory. Ben (Major Bloodnok) (talk) 21:26, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
• Delist the tempo is off compared to the two versions I have on vinyl or on my laptop. It is far too slow and there are some places where it does not sound quite right. --Guerillero | My Talk 17:35, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
• Weak delist—compared with that dreadful performance of a piano rag by its own composer that was waved through some months ago, this is good. The audio-eng is fine, and there are lots of things I like about the performance, including the tempo. The negatives are (1) insufficient agogic marking of structural points (a continual complaint by me of non-professional performances in this style—and here, at one point, the agogic pull-back is a second too late, which is weird); (2) the extra key-rips, not in the score, which are really good when minimal, but become cluttering when inserted to this extent; and (3) one or two slips, which by themselves wouldn't matter. Tony (talk) 01:33, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Delisted Maple Leaf Rag.ogg ~~Ebe123~~ → report ← Contribs 21:08, 8 November 2011 (UTC)