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Tom Wagner

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:15 pm

Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 597 Location: Long Island, NY

When you develop new voices to add to your repertoire do you usually do it within the confines of a recording session or do you spend time at home (or car) working on voices? How much "practice time" do you allow yourself or are things so busy that you don't have enough time to work on voices unless you're in front of a microphone? Have you ever "discovered" a voice while working through a session and by the time the session was done you had a "new" voice?

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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:12 pm

Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 905 Location: HERE!

While I may make a note of an interesting voice encountered that grabs my interest here and there, during these past many full-time "On Call" years, any new characterizations added to the "repertoire" mostly come specifically by request.

Tom Wagner wrote:

How much "practice time"...or are things so busy that you don't have enough time to work on voices unless you're in front of a microphone?

Precisely. The bottomless pool of audition (and "scratch track") demands preclude most leisure-time vocal exploration; only occasionally I'll "stumble over" an amusing impression forming while quoting someone (or an imagined character) in relating an anecdote or opinion during casual conversation.

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Have you ever "discovered" a voice while working through a session and by the time the session was done you had a "new" voice?

Happens all the time. As a daily professional voice acting workhorse, the majority of "new voices" are really co-created - in concert with wonderful directors' and fellow performers' conceptual character voice suggestions and encouragement. And some jump right off the page, as penned from their inception in a good writer's Mind's Ear.

Daws used to talk of the surprisingly limited range of actual distinctive "voices" possible for human beings to produce: So beyond the initial establishment of one's basic palette of tones and placements, it's really all about generating individually recognizable Characters to work with, whenever a script or VO assignment "summons" them to the microphone. So long as distinctively "new" ones are conceived and written, we never run out of New Voices to employ in the craft of storytelling.

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