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We are seeking a New York-based female voice (25-65) to narrate an audio tour for a major national museum in New York. The tour is for their permanent collection, so the work could easily extend beyond the initial project. Due to contractual obligations, we are unable to use union talent. We pay $300+/hr. Voice over recordings are done at various voice over studios in New York City.
We would like to receive script from voice over artists readings of the following text ASAP. We are looking to refer specific voices to our client for the final selection by Monday, May 24.
NARRATION NOTES:
We are looking to keep the text lively and engaging. The idea is to give meaning to the text, bring energy to it. The narrator should sound mature & intriguing but never cross the line towards salesmanship or too much enthusiasm.
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We would like to receive script from voice over artists readings of the following text ASAP. We are looking to refer specific voices to our client for the final selection by Monday, May 24.
NARRATION NOTES:
We are looking to keep the text lively and engaging. The idea is to give meaning to the text, bring energy to it. The narrator should sound mature & intriguing but never cross the line towards salesmanship or too much enthusiasm.
May 20, 2004 19:07:08 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) May 27, 2004 00:00:00 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) No (click here to learn more about
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0 direct invitation(s) have been sent by the voice seeker resulting in 0 audition(s) and/or proposal(s) so far.
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English - North American
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Young Adult Female OR Middle Age Female OR Senior Female
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There are no special pre-, post-, or production requirements for this project.
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SAMPLE TEXT:
NARRATOR: The inspiration for this monumental sculpture by Gaston Lachaise was the artist’s lifelong muse, Isabel Dutaud Nagle. When they first met in Paris, Isabel was living in the United States, married to another man, and the mother of a child. In spite of all of these obstacles, and the fact that Isabel was ten years older than he, the artist left his native France for America in the hopes of being with her. They married in 1917, five years after he made this sculpture. As was often the case, Isabel didn’t pose for this work. Lachaise created her image from memory. The result is an intensified expression of desire and devotion. Isabel was only five foot three, but here the artist has envisioned her as a larger-than-life goddess. He has given her wide hips and large breasts, features you might find in an ancient fertility goddess. And the gesture of her slender hands and curved fingertips is reminiscent of an Indian Buddha. She bears a meditative, other-worldly expression and stands on tip-toe, as if endowed with divine powers.
The artist’s extensive love letters to Isabel articulate the same passion that his sculptures exude. In 1915, three years after making this work, the artist wrote Isabel, calling her: “A beautiful goddess of heavy breasts and splendid white belly, goddess of sublime thoughts of tranquility and strength. You are the harmony of heaven and earth. I sing my hymn to you….You inspire my every moment.”
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Marsden Hartley
Painting Number Five
NARRATOR: Painting Number Five, by Marsden Hartley, is an exuberant cacaphony of color and pattern. Near the center of the canvas, two circles overlap – one contains the German Iron Cross, a medal of valor awarded to German soldiers for their courage in battle. The other contains a red cross. Look carefully and you can find references to flags, military insignia and even an army uniform. The effect is like a collage, combining impressions of things Hartley encountered in Berlin, where he lived before the start of the First World War.
What is the real subject of this painting? Think about how you recall things that have happened to you in the past. Often, it’s hard to conjure up a sense of something in its entirety. We remember a person or an event in the details – a gesture, a smell, a color. Hartley’s painting functions that way too; it’s actually a portrait, although the literal image of an actual person is altogether absent. The painting commemorates a young German officer, Karl von Freyburg, who died in the early months of World War I. Hartley was in love with von Freyburg, and he made this painting after learning of his death.
Like other painters in this gallery, Hartley wanted to find a new way of representing the modern world, a new way of making paintings. Inspired by European avant garde artists of the time, Hartley began to move away from direct representations of his subject matter toward more abstract, evocative imagery. Other American artists -- whose work you can see nearby -- did the same. Hartley once said that the artist’s challenge was to reveal what he called “the magic that is beneath the surface of what the eye sees.” In this painting, he captures a sense of an individual personality, and the emotional content of his relationship to Berlin and to von Freyburg.
The semi-abstract style of Hartley’s painting means that we have to struggle a bit to decode its meaning. If you’d like to hear more about this from art historian Jonathan Weinberg, press the PLAY button now.
NARRATOR: The inspiration for this monumental sculpture by Gaston Lachaise was the artist’s lifelong muse, Isabel Dutaud Nagle. When they first met in Paris, Isabel was living in the United States, married to another man, and the mother of a child. In spite of all of these obstacles, and the fact that Isabel was ten years older than he, the artist left his native France for America in the hopes of being with her. They married in 1917, five years after he made this sculpture. As was often the case, Isabel didn’t pose for this work. Lachaise created her image from memory. The result is an intensified expression of desire and devotion. Isabel was only five foot three, but here the artist has envisioned her as a larger-than-life goddess. He has given her wide hips and large breasts, features you might find in an ancient fertility goddess. And the gesture of her slender hands and curved fingertips is reminiscent of an Indian Buddha. She bears a meditative, other-worldly expression and stands on tip-toe, as if endowed with divine powers.
The artist’s extensive love letters to Isabel articulate the same passion that his sculptures exude. In 1915, three years after making this work, the artist wrote Isabel, calling her: “A beautiful goddess of heavy breasts and splendid white belly, goddess of sublime thoughts of tranquility and strength. You are the harmony of heaven and earth. I sing my hymn to you….You inspire my every moment.”
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Marsden Hartley
Painting Number Five
NARRATOR: Painting Number Five, by Marsden Hartley, is an exuberant cacaphony of color and pattern. Near the center of the canvas, two circles overlap – one contains the German Iron Cross, a medal of valor awarded to German soldiers for their courage in battle. The other contains a red cross. Look carefully and you can find references to flags, military insignia and even an army uniform. The effect is like a collage, combining impressions of things Hartley encountered in Berlin, where he lived before the start of the First World War.
What is the real subject of this painting? Think about how you recall things that have happened to you in the past. Often, it’s hard to conjure up a sense of something in its entirety. We remember a person or an event in the details – a gesture, a smell, a color. Hartley’s painting functions that way too; it’s actually a portrait, although the literal image of an actual person is altogether absent. The painting commemorates a young German officer, Karl von Freyburg, who died in the early months of World War I. Hartley was in love with von Freyburg, and he made this painting after learning of his death.
Like other painters in this gallery, Hartley wanted to find a new way of representing the modern world, a new way of making paintings. Inspired by European avant garde artists of the time, Hartley began to move away from direct representations of his subject matter toward more abstract, evocative imagery. Other American artists -- whose work you can see nearby -- did the same. Hartley once said that the artist’s challenge was to reveal what he called “the magic that is beneath the surface of what the eye sees.” In this painting, he captures a sense of an individual personality, and the emotional content of his relationship to Berlin and to von Freyburg.
The semi-abstract style of Hartley’s painting means that we have to struggle a bit to decode its meaning. If you’d like to hear more about this from art historian Jonathan Weinberg, press the PLAY button now.
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