Possibly I was being a touch too much of a tease in my last post.
What I've done is written a sequence of ten sonnets: nine in the voices of a single Muse, but upgraded for the 21st century; and the tenth from all nine.
Then I found a group of nine like-minded individuals—you may find it disturbing that I can so easily find nine like-minded individuals—got them to perform the individual sonnets, and then mixed the performances together with some narration and a selection of supporting sound effects.
It has been a most inspiring experience. Hearing such a variety of voices performing my words has shown me things about the poems that I would not have heard had I merely recorded them myself, and the process of editing and adding sound effects to each recording has had me concentrating on phrases, individual words, or sometimes just the space between a pair of words.
It is nearly ready for release now. I just need to dot some "i"s and double-cross some senior priests...
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