Music
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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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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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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.