Re: Voice into Song
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Sat, 06 Nov 1999 20:20:41 +1100
Yes Bruce, I often wonder what would emerge if we all exited (or were
forced from) the cloaks of darkness behind which we hide in cyberspace.
It's all rather like a very enjoyable masquerade party, isn't it? I
remember seeing the 1993 movie of `Much Ado About Nothing' (four times at
the cinema (: ) and thinking how utterly wonderful it would be to go to
such a party where in one sense you could hide, and in another be
gloriously and remorselessly exposed. I loved doing mask work in acting
class for the same reason. A mask is both restraining and liberating. May
we all hide behind our nom-de-plumes, our painted on expressions, our
voices coming through the greasepaint!
I wonder, out of the blue, if any bananafishers have a musical bone in
their body? I only ask because I would rate singing as number two as a
purgative activity, with writing as number one. I like to sing long and
loud in my very resonant voice (gained from six years of acting and being
taught to project across whole outdoor ampitheatres rather than stoop to
using microphones). Ethel Merman is my specialty, though Doris Day and Judy
Garland often make an appearance too.
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com
citycabn wrote:
> "Excluding family members, whose voices have never failed to charm me, to
be
> sure, the only singer I am utterly prepared to say I love his singing
voice,
> without fear of lying or quite intelligently deceiving myself, is my
> incomparable friend Mr. Bubbles, of Buck & Bubbles, merely singing softly
to
> himself in his dressing room next to yours in Cleveland."
>
> -- Seymour, to his
> parents, in "Hapworth"
>
>
> [Here, around this imaginary fire at Camp Bananafish, how odd actually to
> know the audible voices of some fish (Camille, will, Tim, Rick and Paul,
> courtesy of The Holden Show), and even two faces (Camille and will,
courtesy
> of their websites).]
>