Category Archives: Audio

NMERCER Vocals featured in Grimm Video Game Soundtrack!

Posted on December 29, 2011 by naomimercer| Leave a comment

Justin Lassen asked if I could add some vocals to the video game sound track he’s working on, Grimm: Quest for the Gatherer’s Key. The music has both a Persian and Gothic influence and there were already plenty of choir vocals over the Gothic portions. My job was to add some sort of worldly sounding vocals in the Persian parts. An assignment I was stoked to take on=)

I dug up some old influences I had while I studied the Eastern scale – Sima Bina’s singing in Songs of the Ney and Abida Parveen – and listened to them a few times to put myself in the mindset.

Then I recorded a bunch of takes, edited them and then cleaned them up for Justin to work his magic on. I think it turned out pretty good!

Haus of Persian Descent (f. NMERCER) by Justin Lassen

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Tagged Grimm, Grimm: Quest for the Gatherer's Key, Justin Lassen, nmercer, singing, Video game sountrack

Boojum, Part II

Posted on April 20, 2011 by naomimercer| Leave a comment

If you heard the first part of Boojum and you are a human being with even the slightest bit of imagination, you must be dying to hear the second part of this! I know I am.

I’ve sent out loads of announcements about this but I think everyone’s busy or not interested (perhaps because it’s not video, but a podcast? I dunno). Dude, nobody knows what they’re missing! The world that Bear and Monette create, along with the audio bed the Drabblecast laid the story in, is so detailed and so cool that I’ve been having dreams about it.

Here’s the second and final part of the story. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Click here to listen to Boojum Part II

Posted in Audio, I'm Into This!, Voice Over

Tagged Boojum, drabblecast, Elizabeth Bear, podcast, sarah monette, sci-fi, science fiction, Voice Over, voice over job

Boojum

Posted on April 18, 2011 by naomimercer| Leave a comment

I want to be Black Alice Bradley! No really, this story is so cool. It’s written by two brilliant women, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, and it takes place on a pirate ship in outer space that’s a species who travels through space the way a fish moves through water.

It’s an awesome Sci-Fi and the Drabblecast Podcast is great for raising the money to pay people to create this stuff. Norm Sherman produces these podcasts beautifully. If you can, put it on your iPod and play it while you exercise or in your car – like an audiobook. Each part is probably 10 minutes long or more but the story is so great it stayed in my mind for days after I recorded it.

Boojum Part 1

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Tagged audiobooks, Black Alice Bradley, Boojum, drabblecast, Elizabeth Bear, podcast, sarah monette

The Fantasy Jumper

Posted on August 16, 2010 by naomimercer| Leave a comment

This was a really fun job. The Drabblecast is a neat podcast that I’ve read a story for once before but this one really struck me. It’s by Will McIntosh who is a highly decorated science fiction writer. The Fantasy Jumper was in 2009′s Year’s Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy and Will has a good shot at the Hugo Award this year. Here’s a cool review about it:

‘The Fantasy Jumper’ by Will McIntosh is a first BS appearance by a regular contributor to sister-magazine Interzone,and it’s a fine story, perhaps the best in the magazine; set at a future World’s Fair, which includes amongst its attractions a booth that will generate temporary people designed to replay selected memories. Breaking from it’s expected narrative arc, it’s short and to the point, and perhaps worth the price of the magazine on it’s own.

Click here for the entire by Sci Fi Fantasy Fiction.

Click here to listen to the story. Just so you know, it’s like 20 minutes long. I read the Fantasy Jumper at around 4:24 into the podcast. Hope you enjoy!