On the Vocal Technique of Frustration

Creator: 
Jerishma Patel, Ashely Ericson
Description: 

Ashley Ericson describes the technique she uses to act out the "lower" emotions, including frustration.

Contributor: 
Jerishma Patel
Format: 
wav
Language: 
English
Type: 
Audio
Date: 
November 23, 2015
Location: 

Duke University, Durham, NC

Subject: 

Frustration, Voice, Acting, Technique

Transcription: 

In everyday life and in the lower emotion ranges, we don't talk with as light of a voice, we don't talk with as fluid of a voice, or as soft of a voice. There's graveliness there, that comes from your throat and comes from your chest. And knowing this, it's not your head voice, it's your chest voice. So, you talk up here, this is your head voice, and you sing up there and that's your head voice. And then your chest voice is lower, and you sort of bring your... I bring my shoulders down. I can feel it.

Duration: 
00:00:36
Bit Rate/Frequency: 
16 bits per sample