What an interesting experiment. I'm signing up, but I don't think I want my voice on my blog. Maybe I could record other sounds to use. It might also be nice to use while traveling.
The most interesting part is listening to you talk when you are not talking to ME. You sound different, and I'll bet everyone will say so. It does seem to add to the evidence that says we have performances for different aspects of our lives.
The next question is, can the performer objectively decide which performance is "authentic"?
For what it is worth, when I record (video) stuff for Annette and watch it, it seems very unnatural to me.
How many times have you heard people listen to a recording of them and say "that doesn't sound like me" when it does... so which is authentic... what comes out naturally, or a performance of the voice that matches what you hear (imagine) yourself to be?
Ahh -- but the mistake is to believe that any ONE is authentic. Every performance is authentic -- each is a part of us. According to many, the performance is what we are. And even if there is some essential being beneath the performance, we can never know it -- it is always witnessed/experienced through the performance.
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What an interesting experiment. I'm signing up, but I don't think I want my voice on my blog. Maybe I could record other sounds to use. It might also be nice to use while traveling.
The most interesting part is listening to you talk when you are not talking to ME. You sound different, and I'll bet everyone will say so. It does seem to add to the evidence that says we have performances for different aspects of our lives.
Cool stuff.
The next question is, can the performer objectively decide which performance is "authentic"?
For what it is worth, when I record (video) stuff for Annette and watch it, it seems very unnatural to me.
How many times have you heard people listen to a recording of them and say "that doesn't sound like me" when it does... so which is authentic... what comes out naturally, or a performance of the voice that matches what you hear (imagine) yourself to be?
Ahh -- but the mistake is to believe that any ONE is authentic. Every performance is authentic -- each is a part of us. According to many, the performance is what we are. And even if there is some essential being beneath the performance, we can never know it -- it is always witnessed/experienced through the performance.
:)
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