Heaven within you Featuring Christina Linton

Mirror talk

The only glimpse of Heaven

The train

LoL
Words by AaronWhite
Music by Tony Nunez

Heading for the Homestead
Sarah Torribio

Coldshot
Chris Meraz Pod People: Litrus makes a sonic boom We’ve started out small: a cheap microphone, a program that comes bundled with all new Macs called GarageBand and a closed office door. It seems an inauspicious way to make history. But that’s exactly what Litrus Podcasts have been doing.

We’re taking the traditional campus literary magazine and breaking the sound barrier. Students (and one overenthusiastic adviser) have been trooping into an office in the bustling student publications complex, or using their home technology, to record their words. There’s something powerful about literature read aloud. Accents, cadences, rhyming, rap,

onomatopoeia—bim, bam, bap!

We’ve done radio plays such as former Litrus editor Aaron White’s cruelly ironic “Flowers” (issue 1) and “Dating with the Shark” (issue 2). We’ve been inspired by the poetry /electronic music blend that made The Postal Service’s 2003 album “Give Up” so critically acclaimed (“I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles/In our eyes are mirror images and when/We kiss they're perfectly aligned.”) Our fascination with the marriage of music and words may be seen in recordings like “Flowers” (issue 1), “The Hilton Heaven” (issue 2) and “Coldshot” (issue 3). And Rebecca Linton and adviser Sarah Torribio make a bit avant-garde, using issue 3 to explore characters, accents and ideas.
As Karen Carpenters sang, “we’ve only just begun.” Among issue 3 innovations are links where our mp3s can be downloaded onto your iPod and shared with friends.

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