Vocal Process interviews on singing, performing and vocal technique from leading artists, writers and performers
Working Week for Vocal Process Monday: Looking forward to our 12th online training Webinar tomorrow. We’ve already done three on Taking Chest Voice Higher, so this month it’s clarifying the confusion around “Head Voice”. We’re including a voice science moment to explain what really happens physically in different vocal registers, so I’m collecting quotes and […]
Research on the female singing voice Why a PhD? I started doing my PhD at the age of 50, after almost 30 years away from academia (my first degree was a BA in music from York university). I’m often asked why I put myself through the experience of becoming a student again when I already […]
Breath and the Vocal Folds – a Musical Theatre Perspective (page 1) Last year the Voice and Speech Teachers’ Association in America (VASTA) approached Gillyanne to be interviewed for their bi-annual Voice and Speech Review. The resulting interview with VSR’s Editor-in-Chief Rena Cook has just been published. Breath and the Vocal Folds – A Musical […]
Breath and the Vocal Folds – a Musical Theatre Perspective (page 2) Last year the Voice and Speech Teachers’ Association in America (VASTA) approached Gillyanne to be interviewed for their bi-annual Voice and Speech Review. The resulting interview with VSR’s Editor-in-Chief Rena Cook has just been published. …continued from page 1 GK: A second turning […]
Breath and the Vocal Folds – a Musical Theatre Perspective (page 3) Last year the Voice and Speech Teachers’ Association in America (VASTA) approached Gillyanne to be interviewed for their bi-annual Voice and Speech Review. The resulting interview with VSR’s Editor-in-Chief Rena Cook has just been published. …continued from page 2 GK: I have continued […]
Breath and the Vocal Folds – a Musical Theatre Perspective (page 4) Last year the Voice and Speech Teachers’ Association in America (VASTA) approached Gillyanne to be interviewed for their bi-annual Voice and Speech Review. The resulting interview with VSR’s Editor-in-Chief Rena Cook has just been published. …continued from page 3 GK: Hm. Well, first […]
Dialects and Accents Paul Meier interviewed by Jeremy Fisher Jeremy talked recently to expert dialect coach Paul Meier on working with film actors, coaching musicals and the Top Tip for changing dialect. The interview includes a downloadable soundfile excerpt (mp3) of Paul demonstrating the differences between Standard British and Standard American. Beginnings Jeremy: First of […]
How DO you solve a problem like Maria? By Dr Donna Soto-Morettini, casting director on the BBC’s hunt for the new lead in The Sound of Music. Well, whatever your take on the new Andrew Lloyd-Webber project of casting by television vote – and of course there is much debate about it – there are […]
Song writing with Carner and Gregor (page 2) This is page 2 of an excerpt from the Carner and Gregor blog on the process behind their song writing. The song being discussed here is “Dancing in Pairs” from their song Cycle “Island Song” The interplay of sound In literary critic Kenneth Burke’s 1940 article “On […]
Song writing with Carner and Gregor This is an excerpt from the Carner and Gregor blog on the process behind their song writing. The song being discussed here is “Dancing in Pairs” from their song Cycle “Island Song” The process of song writing Often, when drafting a lyric—or in contemplating revisions—one word… Continue reading