On 7/4/06 7:55 PM, "Edmund Hardy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> the idea of creating voice-masks does seem silly & perhaps yes intimidating,
> because it suggests you don't already possess voices, you must "find" one -
> But the thought of a voice is pretty puzzling, I find, when we can see that
> different writers have various writing styles, sometimes violently
> idiosyncratic, and if style comes from an interior, and the interior was
> already social, then our "voice" is the product of our entire lives, all the
> crowd we've internalised as part of our being already outside.
>
Hi Edmund - the only time it ever made sense to me was when I read something
by the famous voice teacher Karen Linklater (but you see, I have a
dreadfully literal mind). I remember all the time when I was a young poet,
people telling me that one day I would "find my voice". I wondered what they
meant (how would I know? Would an angel come from on high or something?)
Then it was that one you found your "voice" you stuck to it like a burr.
Which seemed very much like forgetting how to become. Like you knew who you
were, which is something that seems more and more elusive the older I get...
> Or Samuel Beckett: ‘Whose voice, no one’s, there is no one, there’s a voice
> without a mouth, and somewhere a kind of hearing, something compelled to
> hear, and somewhere a hand, it calls that a hand, it wants to make a hand,
> or if not a hand something somewhere that can leave a trace, of what is
> made, of what is said, you can’t do with less, no, that’s romancing, more
> romancing, there is nothing but a voice murmuring a trace.’
Beautiful - thanks -
Hurriedly
A
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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