Oh my golly goodness did we learn some things about my voice today! I was so nervous when I got a Maddie email following our group accent session. I definitely do not feel 100% on the RP accent yet, but I didn’t think that it went overly poorly. However, when Marc emailed me and told me it would be moreso a vocal session I immediately understood the necessity for the meeting!
I really want my work from my Voice and Body and Acting Two courses to carry over into my work on this piece. In today’s meeting Marc and I went over how important my goals with my speech are to the success of this project. We went over a vocal routine that I am going to start doing daily moving forward in order to prepare for in-person rehearsals. This routine focuses on humming, y-buzzing, and finding tonality through the vibrations that naturally occur within my voice. I am hiding a lot of tone within my natural speech patterns and I am not often utilising the lower portion of my register when I am communicating in my everyday life. I would love to truly begin to change this. I think that implementing this daily practice will help me to get there.
I am honestly a little scared of this goal. During Nunsense I spoke and sang in such an unhealthy way and it really hurt my heart. Singing is the thing in this life that brings me the utmost peace and feeling as if I did not understand that part of myself was really emotional for me. I felt a disconnect from my voice and body during that show. I do not want to feel that way during the process of Dial M For Murder. I think that in order to remain safe I need to be regularly honest with Marc about how I am doing with the exercises. I need to push myself and be honest about when things hurt or are challenging for me. It is okay to say that something is not right if I am questioning it. It’s my voice and I am studying theatre at University to learn how to use it! This is a good thing!
Today for the first time I was able to create a beautiful sound with my +ybuzz! This was something that I was never sure of during my Voice and Body Movement class! But today I was speaking and making noise with a rich and vibrant shade of my voice! It was so freeing and nice! I cannot wait to explore this superpower more as we move forward. I don’t need to be afraid of things like this. Time to dive in.