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So I don't just have the sight of the people in front of me and the sound of my
voice
and the weight of my shoes against the floor, but they occur to me as part of one single great conscious field that stretches forward and backward.
I was leaving a seminar when it started, humming to myself, fumbling with my bag just as I'd done a hundred times before, when suddenly I heard a
voice
calmly observe, "She is leaving the room."
The
voice
had arrived.
And the
voice
persisted, days and then weeks of it, on and on, narrating everything I did in the third person.
So, for example, if I was angry and had to hide it, which I often did, being very adept at concealing how I really felt, then the
voice
would sound frustrated.
Now it was then that I made a fatal mistake, in that I told a friend about the voice, and she was horrified.
Suddenly the
voice
didn't seem quite so benign anymore, and when she insisted that I seek medical attention, I duly complied, and which proved to be mistake number two.
I spent some time telling the college G.P. about what I perceived to be the real problem: anxiety, low self-worth, fears about the future, and was met with bored indifference until I mentioned the voice, upon which he dropped his pen, swung round and began to question me with a show of real interest.
And I always wish, at this point, the
voice
had said, "She is digging her own grave."
I was referred to a psychiatrist, who likewise took a grim view of the
voice'
s presence, subsequently interpreting everything I said through a lens of latent insanity.
But having been encouraged to see the
voice
not as an experience but as a symptom, my fear and resistance towards it intensified.
Throughout all of this, what I would ultimately realize was that each
voice
was closely related to aspects of myself, and that each of them carried overwhelming emotions that I'd never had an opportunity to process or resolve, memories of sexual trauma and abuse, of anger, shame, guilt, low self-worth.
It was armed with this knowledge that ultimately I would gather together my shattered self, each fragment represented by a different voice, gradually withdraw from all my medication, and return to psychiatry, only this time from the other side.
Ten years after the
voice
first came, I finally graduated, this time with the highest degree in psychology the university had ever given, and one year later, the highest masters, which shall we say isn't bad for a madwoman.
I'm now very proud to be a part of Intervoice, the organizational body of the International Hearing Voices Movement, an initiative inspired by the work of Professor Marius Romme and Dr. Sandra Escher, which locates
voice
hearing as a survival strategy, a sane reaction to insane circumstances, not as an aberrant symptom of schizophrenia to be endured, but a complex, significant and meaningful experience to be explored.
Together, we envisage and enact a society that understands and respects
voice
hearing, supports the needs of individuals who hear voices, and which values them as full citizens.
All his ideas, imagination and philosophy were inspired by this little boy in the village where he grew up, smelling a specific smell, hearing a specific voice, and thinking a specific thought.
I'd like you all to ask yourselves a question which you may never have asked yourselves before: What is possible with the human
voice?
What is possible with the human
voice?
And there's things that no one's
voice
can do.
So there's things you can't do, and these limitations on the human
voice
have always really annoyed me, because beatbox is the best way of getting musical ideas out of your head and into the world, but they're sketches at best, which is what's annoyed me.
We've made a system which is basically a live production machine, a real-time music production machine, and it enables me to, using nothing but my voice, create music in real time as I hear it in my head unimpeded by any physical restrictions that my body might place on me.
And before I start making noises with it, and using it to manipulate my voice, I want to reiterate that everything that you're about to hear is being made by my
voice.
So once this thing really gets going, and it really starts to mangle the audio I'm putting into it, it becomes not obvious that it is the human voice, but it is, so I'm going to take you through it bit by bit and start nice and simple.
So the polyphony problem: I've only got one
voice.
But if you want to do something a little bit more immediate, something that you can't achieve with live looping, there's other ways to layer your
voice
up.
So every noise you can hear there is my
voice.
That is literally all my
voice
being manipulated, and when you get to that point, you have to ask, don't you, what's the point?
So with your permission, I'm going to do some things that are in my mind, and I hope you enjoy them, because they're rather unusual, especially when you're doing things which are as unusual as this, it can be hard to believe that it is all my voice, you see.
So, loosely defined, that is what's possible with the human
voice.
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