This post will cheer you up.
News, a book extract, some music, some daft stuff and a picture of a shih tzu.
News from the sound studio
I worked proper hard over the summer. Here are the fruits of my labour!
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I’m offering 1:1 career coaching to creative entrepreneurs. I work with clients to help them stop the overwhelm and develop new income streams. I have space for ONE more client in 2023 - if you’d like to grow your business, drop me a line.
I’ve launched Growth Sessions, a collection of evergreen one hour Zoom presentations on topics relating to a single niche.
I’ve created The Freelancer’s Dashboard - a simple system to help freelancers manage and organise their business.
I’ve made The Podcast Manager - an easy to manage system that helps you and your team run your podcast's production schedule smoothly.
But wait - there’s more! Here’s my digital store, chock full of books, scripts, tutorials and audio to help you stay curious.
That’s pretty much how I spent my summer. ☀️
1. Voicing
Most of the biggest clients I’ve voiced for this month are under strict NDAs BUT I voiced some national radio ads for BT with Kevin Bacon. (To be clear, he wasn’t there in the session - his bit had already been recorded - and I can tell you he was absolutely gutted to miss out on meeting me).*
I’ve also made a bunch of these daft Slanguage videos, which are produced by my daughter El.
* I am sure, in my mind, that this is true.
2. Composing
I’m now back at college after the summer break and have just started the second year of my PhD study. Currently, I’m writing miniatures which explore the tension between an artificially generated voice, and a real-life human voice.
These pieces use electronics, acoustic voice and a small ensemble.
3. Reading
This extract from The Human Voice by Anne Karpf is about how people in the nineteenth century were unnerved by the sound of the voice on the newly-invented telephone.
And how did they perceive the female voice? Have a listen and find out.
4. Listening
Deep Time by Harrison Birtwistle is an extraordinary piece of orchestral music.
The title takes its starting point from the work of the 18th century Scottish philosopher James Hutton, who proposed that the processes of rock erosion, sedimentation and formation have 'no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.’
The Guardian said this is “an immensely powerful, sometimes breathtakingly beautiful work.”
Have a listen.
Pic of Yoko, the studio dog
Thanks for reading!
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