Coming soon: the Language Creation Society podcast! (interviewees, poetry, & music wanted)

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Hello all!

In the spirit of the one-run Hour of Babble podcast [1], I'm now
announcing that the Language Creation Society (LCS) will be taking up
the mantle for a conlangers' podcast.

The show will be simple in format: an interview with a conlanger about
their work, interspersed with as much conlang-related music, poetry,
or other audio as we can get our hands on.

In keeping with the LCS' mission, we actively encourage all kinds of
conlangers (aux, art, enge, or otherwise) to participate, as well as
anyone doing research, game design, or the like that incorporates
created languages.

The lingua franca of our podcast interviews will be English, but we
encourage non-English-fluent people to be interviewed also. (We'll
just have to find someone to interview & translate who speaks it
also...)

We also would like to encourage discussion *in* conlangs. If you are
interested, please email us. Some material may be more suitable for a
separate track of podcasts (e.g. general discussion or news that
simply happens to be in a particular conlang); other material may be
more suitable for the main conlang-topical track.


WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR CONLANG(S) OR CONLANGING?

Please email us with times which would be convenient for you to have a
conversation; languages spoken & fluency therein; Skype s/n (if
available) & landline phone number; city, state & country; and some
brief background / links so that the interviewer can read up on what
you've done and thus ask more interesting questions.

Don't worry - we'll email you beforehand to let you know what we'd
like you to be ready to say in your conlang(s) or particular bits
we'll delve into more detail on, so we don't put you on the spot. ;-)

WANT TO SHARE YOUR MUSIC / POETRY?

Please email us w/ the material (or links to it) and explanation of
what's in it and how it should be credited. You keep ownership of
course, but we request unlimited rights to (re)use the work (so that
our podcasts or other future media, such as DVDs, can be produced
without legal issues). If you have any particular concerns or
restrictions on how you'd like your media used, we're always happy to
work with you to meet your needs.

If you can provide an English translation (preferably in the same
voice) as well, that would be quite helpful. If you have a name any
more complicated than 'John' or 'David', please include an explanation
for how to pronounce it (X-SAMPA preferred).

One particular case: we need intro / outro music! Any good music that
you personally made will be considered, and of course all music used
will be credited by name & URL.

WANT TO BE AN INTERVIEWER OR TRANSLATOR?

Please email us w/ your particular areas of interest and fluently
spoken languages (nat & con).

WANT TO HELP EDIT?

If you know how to use multi-track editing software to turn raw audio
into well-stitched-together audio gems, email us!


WHAT'S COMING UP?

Among the first podcasts, already recorded but not yet edited, will be
extended interviews with Sally Caves, John Clifford, Matt Pearson,
David Peterson, and Sylvia Sotomayor.

My anticipated release schedule is 1 every 2 weeks until we're
confident enough that we can sustain a faster release cycle. This of
course depends entirely on submissions & interviewees - i.e. you - to
help keep it going.

So please, join in, and share your conlanging voice!

- Sai

P.S. Please consider this 'for wide distribution' - i.e. forward to
anyone you think would be interested. Thanks!

[1] http://hourofbabble.googlepages.com/home.htm

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