Hiring twenty-one actors to voice audiobook characters for a five-act production about this moment in history as a foil to robot narration strategies by tech-first booksellers. Auditioning is happening, so don't hesitate to connect.

21 April 2025


"Melissa" declines {after reviewing Act One and the contract}

22 April 2025


"Charlotte". [1:30]

23 April 2025


Troubleshooting onboard apps.

24 April 2025


Friday.

25 April 2025


Possibly found "Chris."

26 April 2025


Hi "Mason."

27 April 2025


Editing Act One is underway.

28 April 2025


Complete lines transferred from "Matt" and "Charlotte" {9:28}

29 April 2025


Extensions granted to "Parvati," a Minnesota/Annoyance Theatre comedian choosing between two roles, and "Archie" {17:35}

30 April 2025


Chris Kraus = McKenzie Wark

1 May 2025


Thanks for alerting me to a numbering issue on Google Play!

2 May 2025


Google Play! will have a comic book edition online and in print.

3 May 2025


"Padma [14:37–39]" and "Parag [11:38–48]" hired.

4 May 2025


Negotiating with a volunteer editor.

5 May 2025


An audio engineer signed my NDA. [23:54]

6 May 2025


Comicbook illustration begins.

8 May 2025


Full audio from 15/21 actors.

10 May 2025


Requested studio time from 1871.

12 May 2025


Trying to reconnect with the nicest guy I ever thought of as my boyfriend, illustrator Dino Thibault from New Zealand, for the role of "Chris."

13 May 2025


"Martin" and "Prashantha," hi "Chris."

16 May 2025


The listing is expired, and "Google Play"/go(o)gel play is *this close* to full ensemble.

19 May 2025

Full audio from 18/21 actors.

22 May 2025

20/21

26 May 2025

29 May 2025

Recasting "Martin":

30 May 2025

October release date.

7 June 2025

Scheduled recording for "Martin" and narrator.

9 June 2025

Two samples for ESS, creating a third as preparation for DUSK on June 28.

12 June 2025

Finalizing post-production will happen, and maybe from the Sound of Places residency in Bethlehem (September 1 to October 15).

13 June 2025

"go(0)gel play! or Google Play" will not have an AI-narrated edition. If you would like to hear an AI-narrated audiobook Мол is adorable! like that on the Google Play store.

18 June 2025

Thank you EVERYBODY, including the solar-powered Mystery Street Recording Company: all twenty-one roles, and narration, were produced.

19 June 2025

A gallery exhibition about 'goog play!'

26 June 2025

'proprietary font' > staged reading

29 June 2025

Ideally the GOOG Play media kit will be offered as a freebie at Printer's Row in September before going to Colorado Oct. 18 for the Pikes Peak Zine Fest, since there's a co-production opportunity for "Spells" at the Dairy Arts Center.

13 July 2025

Forwarded contributor agreements to Illinois Arts Council for grant request beginning September 9. Tech has not arrived.

14 July 2025

Post-production was 'always already' in earnest, though the aspiring engineer's offer to assist me with it was diverting. Unfortunately he cannot complete the project; his approach to compilation was not at the standard I was achieving but he communicated on the relevance of sound-mastering which is still being worked out.

15 July 2025

I'm relying on my own data-gathering to write blurbs for each artist and/or actor that contributed though if you have specific asks for me to reference lmk. 500 copies in 64-pages saddle-stitched from a Northbrook, Illinois, HP facility tentatively distributing 9 September 2025.

16 July 2025

Thanks for the sabbatical, I've returned in the scene files.

18 July 2025

I'm compiling.

20 July 2025

Achieving two scenes-worth of compilation a day is motivating, so I'm phoning in a meeting with the banker.

21 July 2025

Progress.

22 July 2025

  • it was my fault from a roomtone cross-fade.
  • Found it.

    23 July 2025

    25 July 2025

    27 July 2025

    28 July 2025

    31 July 2025

    Thanks to stellar труд from 21 actor-artists/artist-actors (wrt A1S3, Shazia Edgell and Suwanrie Janse van Rensburg)

    31 July 2025

    4 August 2025

    "an audio zine featuring contributions by twenty-one voiceover artists reading asynchronously (before compilation) from a shakespearan script model."

    6 August 2025

    Itch.io doubledquadrupled the upload capacity for this project.

    8 August 2025

    Charlotte was 2024's most popular "city-inspired baby name" with Madison ranking 6th according to my Internet provider.

    10 August 2025

    More clicking during my narration from the audio enginner, Act Three Scene Three ('bottom of 69') "She enters the frame, throwing a look to MARCUS" I say "Padma" instead of "she."

    11 August 2025

    A few seconds of GOOG Play maybe audible on my podcast here.

    12 August 2025

    A surge of excitement greeted me when I recalled going back to "GOOG Play" composition tomorrow after a weekend [of drawing font].

    17 August 2025

    ai mocks Human

    18 August 2025

    the app to vend at Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest (Oct 18-19) is successful.

    Local comic Vishnu Namboodiripad ("Parag") was married in Bloomington this weekend, congratulations! Finding this work through Annoyance Theater, where he studied musical improv (he's also an alum of iO), Vishnu began acting at the Minnesota Children's Theatre Company and Wild Swan Theatre Company.
  • The "Logic Pro" interface resemblacts Nokia's Snake.
  • 'Magical improv from Alisha Sheth ("Parvati") in A4S4. ["No trackers found."]
  • 19 August 2025

    hearing phrases sound radically different based on where they're interlocuting

    20 August 2025

    Billing "Chanel" in place of a 'found name.'

    21 August 2025

    Itch.io has no apparent maximum project price: GOOGPlay-font's retail price will be decided...

    22 August 2025

    "parvati" and "padfoot" cite named entity theory wrt Rowling's minor lit; furthermore Padma Lakshmi is host of Bravo TV's Top Chef, and for trivia nerds her ex Salman Rushdie is a living giant of magical realism (who was online with us for tacos at the Gowanus ACLU wedding Andrea invited me to).

    26 August 2025

    I will grant Copious Consulting access to review (a feature-length version tomorrow)... "GOOG Play" is asynchronous theater!

    27 August 2025

    Preliminary version in full shared to the site

    28 August 2025

    GOOGPlay font, which is almost complete in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and web/dingbat symbols, could be sold to K-12 libraries for negotiable price* in conjunction with the publication of MyFirstApp (an education product that can hopefully be subsidized by computer orgs for free to minors through K-12 schools with the distribution of MontBlanc styluses) -- which now has speculative design for access protections making its entity realization conceivable. Adults will be firewalled from viewing activity as contributors or moderators.

    30 August 2025

    With only 6-7 days of Logic Pro remaining, I'm trying to mix-in roomtone, finalize edits, and export to normalize peaks etc in another app.

    4 September 2025

    I'm downloading a "free trial" of Affinity. ~2.66GB

    Act 1 is exported with backup.

    "I need counseling about MIDIs.

    It looked like I'd lost Act 3!

    Import functions.

    6 September 2025

    Lagerfeld said "Chanel."

    Not Coco on camera...

    7 September 2025

    I'm unable to install a favicon on this website?

    8 September 2025

    The 'cover' of g0oGpl@y's media kit/comix starter is an illustration (~storyboard capture) that may get drawn within 19 September.

    A one-page press release to video game media will follow.

    9 September 2025

    gO0Gpl@y resumes on Monday!

    (There's enough for an ISBN at worst)

    12 September 2025

    New DAW with bells-and-whistles expiring 15 October.

    Now permitting me to hear more clicking on my narration from the engineer's booth. I will not acknowledge the recording studio in final copy.

    My consumer profile would be algorithmically disruptive to stakeholders of gO0Gpl@y.

    Affinity Designer works past the trial date so long that it stays open (?).

    I can't spot that vandalism in the waveform.

    How could I forget the name of peace in the middle east.wav?

    15 September 2025

    I called ACX.

    We have two doctors voicing 'artificial named entities': Nigel Lane ("Alistair") and Dr. Leigh ("Mary").

    Four African-Americans labored in advance of compensation.

    'On-track to publication' is up-and-running.

    Nellie Hill upstages "Chanel" and has the role of "Morgan."

    I think Act 1, Scene 1 is ready for audiences.

    ACX's Audio Lab approves the encoding.

    I'll publish the media comix on Kindle.

    16 September 2025

    I 'would' feel chagrined about the script having four scenes per act rather than the Shakespearean five. 5x5 *is* 'a square' but a square has four not five sides. The advantage of Shakespeare's formula is how it routinizes structure: each 3 is a perfect middle permitting 1 and 5 to be bookends and 2,4 the 'paragraph transitions' - on the macro and micro levels. The 1669 text, "Love Letters by a Nun,' is epistolary prose in five acts... Aphra Behn's first work is staged in 1670? Wikipedia's say the disputed authorship traveled from Paris to Germany in 1669.

    My brag is I sutured an operated waveform so as to witness aurality during Round 1 of editing. (I'm enjoying the plugins)

    17 September 2025

    I'm drawing myself for the cover: comic-book saturation in Drawn and Quarterly mode.

    I made a reference image.

    18 September 2025

    Building a script to extract room tone from files.

    I listened to the file Amazon approved... yuck!

    I have roomtone for A1S1.

    Polished A1S2 will be shared with 'an influencer' l8r.

    gO0Gpl@y is a composition.

    19 September 2025

    Pikes Peak asked for a payment by today on Paypal, Venmo, Cash App or "contact us for other methods" which I have.

    21 September 2025

    I emailed a Hachette memoir celebrity author about appearing for a filmed conversation to celebrate our work.

    22 September 2025

    This project is grateful to On the Spot Theater and Dance Company's "A Pair of Silk Stockings," the dance piece set to Saren Nofs Snyder's recording of a Kate Chopin fiction in Vogue, for expanding my imagination.

    24 September 2025

    All tracks will be set with roomtone seeming almost like today.

    I want to code DRM for a proprietary release but it's like, out of my reach.

    Acts 1-4 are...

    I'm trying to make sure I am not disappeared from the earth once GO0gLe Pl@y is on sale.

    From Bowker Identifier Services: "(Order ID: _____) Order Confirmation Message [MyIdentifiers.com]" 16:29

    26 September 2025

    My plan is to complete the bulk of editing remaining this week, working backwards one act per day.

    We're eligible for an IMDB listing assuming "podcast" and "podcast series" aren't the same word and "audio documentary" isn't a listed category, nor is is "audiobook" though that may be accommodated by the guidelines.

    "first day of the second week of quarter; everyone remembers it, This is when you're thinking, 'which class am I going to drop to stay above water?'" — Howard Wolf / "Fizz...it felt really, really good... the administration... when the new school chairs... as a graduate student" / "The f-word... animated" / "I just read [redacted for sexual harassment]... dialogue... dialogue... fundamental... to operate... when you walk around and meet our students, our students are not neccessarily elite when they arrive" / "we live and breath by the survey results so please, please, please fill that out... thank you very much, most importantly, for your engagement"

    29 September 2025

    'when the moon meets your eyes like a big pizza pie, that's landing in the stars...'

    Then the ad hoc plan would be 'make it sound as good as possible and then publish on October 15' with an ad hoc cover if needed; I'm thinking of making clay figurines and photographing them with painted ceramic tiles as backdrop for a defamiliarized mimesis. But to publish on Audible, I need to push a book through to Kindle and that will require creating a transcription of the edited piece.

    However that's not the case on Voices by InAudio, which distributes to Audible but if they can't place gO0gPl@Y I need the alternative path.

    30 September 2025

    Tom Morello from "Rage Against the Machine" wrote the music and lyrics to Goodman's Revolution(s) which is a keyword Michaela Bronstein studies — in the context of Fyodr Dostoevsky's global influence — when she's not teaching The Wire in Baltimore. (The executive director of Modern Language Association is also affiliated with a former Goodman employee's alma mater.) It's on from 4 October to 9 November, coinciding with the debut of Gogol Plié. I had no idea when that shame of referring to Jeff Mangum as Neutral Milk Hotel in an email to Astra Taylor when she offered the Re:search Collective tickets to a concert would dissipate. Yeah, I would have taken the babysitting job if it weren't for "Almost Famous."

    Andrea heard the intro as of September 21.

    Without financing for the comix starter yet, I'm postponing its printing for hypeing BLEACH around May 2026 — after the publication of Our Rabbinical FanFic which could have, likely, poetry contribution and "The Toaster," a short story by Jamieson Cash, enclosed instead of paratext.

    Act Five is anticipating pre-pub tonight.

    File render is really slow now... oh it's a technical error.

    Projection: 4 tmrw, 3 on 5netsa.

    23:02, "I may invite the family of Four Rivers Farm for a listening party of the audiobook if @Herbivore_Chicago would cater (and participate). I’d provide fruit." / 23:02, "Yulia Guelman loved 'I may invite the family of Four Rivers Farm for a listening party of the audiobook if @Herbivore_Chicago would cater (and participate). I’d provide fruit.'"

    Berkeley, April 2021: typing "dissertation project" into Google Docs autocorrected with "projection."

    1 October 2025

    Reality: one scene solved and I need a break before hauling on public transit to peer review.

    I'm uploading for ecommerce on October 15th. I think 4 and 5 can be done tomorrow, 1-3 next week. Only remaining business would be the cover and paratext. I'd want to do one more listen-through with my 'pencil' Mon-Tuesday Oct. 13-4. I should probably work on the cover this weekend.

    2 October 2025

    A4S2, I'm here until midnight.

    I went into A4S4 again to swap out the effect and merely edited without noticing it being in here anywhere... Oh, it's an Act 5...

    cannot

    Tentatively forwarding A4S1.

    realy SO happy with it... transcendant!

    3 October 2025

    "In 2025, she launched a 5-act digital performance project intended for platforms like Google Play, Spotify, and Audible, casting 21 voice actors across a wide range of accents and vocal styles"

    5 October 2025

    The leafblowing began after 9:30 a.m. today, lulling me into a false state of security.

    That was A3S1.

    A3S2

    A3S3

    A3S4

    6 October 2025

    A2S4

    A2S2

    A2S1

    Hurray for today.

    7 October 2025

    A1S2

    A1S3

    S1

    "respiratory"

    Thanks and congrats (unless you're a reporter or lurker). There's one technical solve scheduled for tomorrw, and then one/two more full edits possible before upload on Wednesday.

    8 October 2025