Underground Voicing and Summer Gigs! (Voice Note 4)
Through the heat of May, I was never far from the welcome cool of my subterranean voice booth. I’ve been recording for clients in France, USA, and across the sweltering UK. From fairytales to deep tech, it’s been one of those months when I chuckle to myself at the strange mix of material I’m recording…
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A Blossom Takeover (Voice Note 3)
Hello and happy blossom time! With an unapologetic visual takeover by some of the blossom diversity around me. After what felt like a nicely stretched-out easter of overlapping academic holidays, it’s been a while since putting the proverbial pen to paper. Along with lots of family catch-ups and a dollop of DIY, I’ve been loving…
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On the Art of Layering (Voice Note 2)
It’s been a month of many layers! And I’m not just talking about knitwear. Although, thanks to the new ‘Wuthering Heights’ film, the world can now appreciate (perhaps a bit too much) that Yorkshire is indeed, prone to a little ‘weather’.
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The First Edition of Voice Note by Emma Nabarro-Steel
An eclectic monthly update form the booth and beyond. Voiceover, Music & Culture.
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Inside the Voiceover Booth: A Little Corner of Sound Perfection
To step inside my voice booth is to be at once isolated and connected. The chunky door closes with the satisfying ffft of a fridge (incidentally where the seals are reclaimed from). 1 x 1 m of acoustically treated silence envelopes me, bringing deep focus and calm. Meanwhile, headphones, mic and computer screen, connect me…
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Our Voice Matters – Women’s Safety in Public Open Spaces
I always consider it a great privilege record research content, especially on such an important subject as urban design for women’s safety. When chosen to narrate a film entitled ‘Women’s Safety and Security in Public Open Spaces’ for the University of Leeds, I was naturally engaged with the content: My university, my city and the…
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Wandering Through Ancient Pompeii: A Voice from the Past.
History and travel are two of my favourite things to talk about! So when I was asked by my client Millk Media to work on a voiceover project about the ancient city of Pompeii, I was delighted. My role was a relatable voice from the past: Flavia, a young female Pompeii resident of AD75. Flavia…
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Softly Loudly
Hello! Thanks for popping by. Softly Loudly is an album I recorded in 2020, releasing weekly between 1st Jan – 19th Feb 2021. At the time, I wrote a little about each song – grab your headphones too, as you can listen while you read! The album in its entirety, and everything I’ve recorded previously…
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Self-Love and Ladybird Books
If you happen to be spending the 14th of February in South Korea, you might be inclined to give a man the gift of chocolate. And if you are Finnish, you won’t be doing Valentine’s Day but Ystävänpäivä – ‘friends day’! We grow-up with so many customs surrounding love and I started thinking about the…
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Over to you!
I decided maybe it wasn’t my turn and I needed the creative energy of others. This week I’ve received the generous gift of freshly penned poetry from two opposite sides of the globe. And bang! The intersection of this serendipitous pairing (geographically somewhere around China) is magically, right here for you to enjoy.
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Disclaimer: this is my disclaimer
Music is something I seem to ‘lean in’ to the discomfort of, although it still scares the bejeepers out of me. Most of us have something we want to be braver at and learning about other people’s true colours (even beige) is always a joy to me. Although it’s not always easy to jump in…
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Marie Kondo – A Single Thread
Some songs decide to grow outwards in all directions. The new track ‘Marie Kondo’ sprouted lots of little stories. The kind that connect you in a hidden way to the people you can’t be with: a cohort which recently includes pretty much everyone we know.
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Or…We Could Just Stay Here
How lucky we are to have such an infinite array of choices, even at the moment when we see our lives as unusually restricted. Far too many have lost loved ones this year, and though it’s at immeasurable cost, this surely deepens our experience of what it is to be alive.
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Can we live in this new way?
We’ve never been so physically disconnected from the rest of the world, and politically from our European neighbours. On both counts I hope the separation is followed by a renewed passion and willingness to connect. If we trust the philosophy of Belgian psychologist Esther Perel: “Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need…
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Save to the Soul Reserve
Somewhere along the meandering course of 2020, I became a little fixated by running water, streams, rivers and the general flow of things.
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Avian love song…and a mysterious hush!
I’ve been recording the birds. I know I’m not the first, but as I hit record, creep back from the open window and back into bed, I wonder why I’ve never done this before?
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