Who Do You Think I Am?

Voiceover and composer Emma Clarke goes to a celebrity party, worries about which coat to wear and gets sinusitis.

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Voiceover and composer Emma Clarke explores how she hears sound. She also explains how she goes about creating a character voice.

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Voiceover and composer Emma Clarke discusses the art of forgetting what you've just said, what it's like to be a talking lift....and a new character voice is born on Twitter.

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Listen to the audio above. You can also read the short article below.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta surrender to events.

As I write this, a massive digger is churning up my driveway.* There’s also the occasional pneumatic drill.

It’s not so much the noise. It’s the vibration that’s the issue.

Have a listen to what the sound-proofing is managing to cut out.

You see what I’m up against?

The electricity keeps getting turned off as the engineers fix a cable. It’s also snowing. This means we have little or no heating.

As you can imagine, it’s a right laugh.

This is in no way conducive to creating ideal working conditions here at the sound studio at Clarke Gables.

So how to handle it?

Have a listen to the audio at the top of the page and find out.

*At this point I’m very glad we didn’t go ahead with the block paving.

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Voiceover and composer Emma Clarke discusses a piece of spectral music, BREATH AND BONE which is made of the sound of a man breathing.

"Our lives are made up of individual breaths, like beads on a string."

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Voiceover and composer Emma Clarke experiments with machine learning.

"Today I’ve received audio that will form the basis of a new piece of music. It was made by neural synthesis. By its nature, it’s unique and (to me at least) precious and extraordinary."

Listen to learn how it was created.

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Is your ear’s eye lying to you?

How much can we glean about a person, just by listening to their voice?

In this episode I talk about age, perception, prejudice, assumptions…and what facts are relevant (or not) when casting a voiceover.

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"Ever have a sudden influx of nervousness when you're doing something new? Me too."

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Is there a north/south vocal divide? Emma thinks so. Find out why.

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