lines of work : 3D voice treatment

applied contexts – VOICE COACHING / ACTORS’ STUDIOS

Informed by cognitive linguistics, psycho-acoustics and learning theories, we partner with voice and acting coaches in developing customised tools for speaking and acting practice. Adapted to specific script-learning methods, these tools work as digital extensions of the coaching process.

Using 3D-sound on the actor’s script preparation at different levels – from the coach’s instructions (talking to the actor) to the different drills and repetitions involved in the script learning processes (hi-res recording of other actors’ voices) – this approach is especially suitable for boosting methods such as The Meisner Technique, among others.

GROWING A TEXT FROM SCRATCH –almost like a plant, unfolding from a minute seed– texts organically repeat, iterate and orbit throughout themselves. Combined with 3D voice treatment (hi-res, 3D-binaural audio through headphones), where proximity of the speaking voice(s) and the acoustic qualities of the space become active elements, the listener can be fully immersed in the growing text while absorbing both time and space cues.

Indeed, spatial location of words offers a wide range of possibilities for organising time and memory while learning, producing or rehearsing a script.