How to expose your secret voice? -Voice-IT information

"The ' sheep ' (egophony) is doctor stethoscope is placed over your chest while checking for breathing, hearing voices. So you can actually use this word as a metaphor, to determine who you are and where it came from. "Chris Chapman's work is one of several outstanding research, exhibited at London's Wellcome Collection (Wellcome Collection) it is a sound (This Is a Voice) '. When we tell others in their social class and when the regional voice and identity is the concept will be taken into consideration. Of course depending on your class, you may also need to remove the regional characteristics.

The works in the exhibition will push them deeper, ask self, gender and identity; Chapman says, "when we were chatting with others, will produce a non-linguistic noises." He produced two films, one on the Institute of Psychiatry in London (the London Institute of Psychiatry) in a treatment program, participate in one of the mental patients to create their own roles in two places at once, and inner voices in dialogue after another film records the conversion of sex, efforts to retrain his voice.

? Lawrence Abu Hamdan of the unspeakable acts of artistic creation. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London

"After the sex change, only part sound therapy," he explained, "asked to change the voice of 80% in the case of men and turned women. Female male sex change the situation, you just need male hormone injections, voice will be muffled within 3-4 week. I worked with a woman go talk about this guy, he said in a phone call has been confirmed, people call him on the phone, ' Miss ' but ' Sir '. For him, this is the critical point of degeneration complete. "Another study he was Ad è Le Anderson, from a Fascinating combination of a na?ve da nightclub singer, she completed in 1970 degeneration;" her voice and depth complete wonderful views of the self, as well as for transgender people to change in a big way. ”

? This is an exhibition of sound, Wellcome collection, London. Photo: Nils Jorgensen/REX/Shutterstock

"There is a theory called ' stealth ', the real successful transsexual women is, from now on will no longer be anyone to guess what she was before the other gender identity. This can make you stressed, with a thorough needs all the properties before you deny this, everyone afraid to meet you once knew. And denatured, the sound is everyone afraid of exposure: you may look great, but only to speak ... ... Especially in supermarkets, where people don't really stare at you, directly to you as a woman, but when you start talking to them, you will see the change in their eyes. ”

Except for thin pipes, cut short by surgery vocal cords, you can retrain your voice. Anderson used to find an expert to help, experts say her vocal cords are standard male vocal, but she can use them in a female way. Then she sang to me the difference between soprano and tenor, people immediately understood in terms of voice, pitch is not a defining characteristic of gender; women can also have a very deep voice, men can also be speaking softly tapered, and we can instinctively understand what we are talking people.

? Mikhail Karikis's sound sculpture, and the works in the exhibition. Image credit: Wellcome Trust

"The sound is divided into three parts", Chapman said, "pitch, tone and resonance. Also has voice features, such as language and way of speaking. Men are more likely to interrupt women talk, and when he and another man is not easily interrupted each other. Women are more frequent use of ' may ' and ' probably ' weasel words, while men use ' must ', ' must ' and ' absolute ' terms. "Vocal and personal identity even as a whole, to train his voice the idea this show full of interest. It's almost like you can train your fingerprint.

This show the perfect voice to the film (The Perfect Sound) have a strong impact, which is artist Katarina Zdjelar, in 2009 to create beautiful and memorable works of film records in the Birmingham accent reduction course, a speech therapist to guide new immigrant groups on how to sound more like British pronunciation, or at least less non-English accent. Like medical lighting, the atmosphere is very tense, we observe that the therapists in the face of repeated meaningless sounds. This inexplicably moving, also feared unspeakable: imitation between two humans produce an animal intimacy. Zdjelar described this process as the neutralization of the sound, the sound is no longer a people's specific place, but can make people hidden in the invisible disguise and let him into the background, not to be noticed. I feel like I have never seen anything like this film, so close and so visually depicted as outsiders, paint they had to reinvent themselves in order to adapt to their new homes.

▲ In the perfect sound scene: immigrant groups to remove accents in a course. Image credit: Wellcome Trust

This theme is extended by artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan, he made a film about refugees in Pakistan, Muhammad (Mohamad) (2012). Film takes us to the field of voice as evidence of, who you say you are who you are. Mohamad asylum-seekers is an illegal immigrant, he "accent test" made a mistake in three words – United Kingdom border agency analysis of language is strongly questioned, but is a legitimate tool for denying refugees. When you are on any immigration scholars describe the Mohamad's example, they would always ask who is his lawyer. But the fact is deported Mohamad, the picture shows a portrait of his suffering--as the voice of the seller, he is nowhere now, all the devices of life seems to have been removed from him.

As your voice can betray you, or conceal or fail to work successfully, it certainly can be a powerful source of self-expression. "I love his voice", Anderson said, "it makes my life very well. It's funny, when we're making a movie, Chris told me that, after some degeneration of the women said it's hard to deal with their new voice, because they must learn to adapt in the future life. Some people have to learn to use a new voice for them, keeping the sound is difficult. I put all the bass in your voice, and then talk to lighter, but I don't want to become a sissy. I think that I do not agree. It has been a part of me, and I have been using this voice. ”

嗓音如何暴露你的秘密？ - 声音 - IT资讯

“‘羊音’（egophony）是医生把听诊器放在你胸膛上检查呼吸时，听到的声音。所以可以用这个词作比喻，来判断你是谁、从哪里来。”Chris Chapman的作品是数个杰出探索中的一个，陈列于伦敦韦尔科姆收藏馆（Wellcome Collection）的《这是一种声音（This Is a Voice）》展览中。当我们在社交中辨别他人的阶层和地域时，嗓音和身份是我们都会考虑的概念。当然根据你所在的阶层，你可能还会需要消除原本的地域性特征。

展览中的作品将这些问题推向更深处，问及自我、性别和身份；Chapman认为，“我们和别人聊天时，还会产生非语言学的噪声”。他创作了两部影片，一部是关于伦敦精神病学研究所（the London Institute of Psychiatry）进行的一个治疗项目，参与其中的精神病人创建自己的角色分身，来与内心中的声音对话；另一部影片记录了人们转换性别后，为重新训练嗓音所做的努力。

▲Lawrence Abu Hamdan的艺术创作《不可言说的行为》。图片来源：Wellcome Library, London

“性别转换后，只剩下声音治疗部分”，他解释说，“要求改变嗓音的80%发生在男转女的情况下。而对于女转男的变性情况，你只需注射男性激素，三到四周内声音就会变得低沉。我曾与一位女转男的先生聊起这个，他说在一通电话中得到了确认，电话里别人不再称呼他‘小姐’而是‘先生’。这对他来说就是变性完成的临界点。”他的另一个研究对象是Adèle Anderson，来自Fascinating Aïda组合的夜总会歌手，她在1970年代完成变性；“她分享了对于嗓音和自我的深度完整的精彩见解，以及对于变性人来说发生的改变有多大。”

▲《这是一种声音》展览，韦尔科姆收藏馆，伦敦。图片来源：Nils Jorgensen/REX/Shutterstock

“有种说法叫‘秘密行动’，真正成功变性为女人的标志是，从今以后不再会有人去猜测她在之前是什么其他性别身份。这可能让你压力山大，需要你去否认在此之前的所有属性，你害怕碰见以前认识的任何一个人。并且变性后，声音是大家都会害怕暴露的一点：你可能看起来美极了，但只要一开口……特别是在超市里，那里人们没有真的盯着你看，就直接把你当做女性，但当你开始对他们说话，你会看到他们眼神中的变化。”

除了可以通过手术削薄气管、切短声带，你还可以重新训练你的嗓音。Anderson曾经找到一位专家帮助，专家说她的声带是标准男性声带，但是她可以用女性的方式使用它们。接着，她对着我唱出女高音和男高音的差别，让人立刻明白在嗓音方面，音高并不是性别的决定性特征；女性也可以有很低沉的嗓音，男性也可以说话轻柔尖细，而我们可以本能地理解和我们说话的是什么人。

▲Mikhail Karikis的《声音雕塑》，展览中的系列作品。图片来源：Wellcome Trust

“声音分为三个部分”，Chapman说道，“音高、声调和共鸣。还有声音之外的特征，如语言的使用以及说话的方式。男性更有可能打断女性说话，而当他与另一个男性聊天时则不会轻易打断对方。女性更经常地使用‘可能’、‘大概’之类模棱两可的词语，而男性则会使用‘必须’、‘一定’、‘绝对’等词。”嗓音与个人身份连为整体，能够训练自己的嗓音这个想法让这场展览充满趣味。这就像是可以训练你的指纹。

这场展出与影片《完美的声音（The Perfect Sound）》产生有力的碰撞，后者是艺术家Katarina Zdjelar在2009年创作的美丽而令人难忘的作品，影片记录了在伯明翰一套消除口音的课程，一名语言治疗师指导新的移民群体如何听起来更像英式发音，或者至少少一点非英式发音。打着类似医用的照明灯，气氛显得很紧张，我们观察到治疗师在重复无意义的声音时的面部表情。这令人费解地让人动容，又难以言喻地让人害怕：两个人类间的模仿产生出一种动物间的亲密。Zdjelar形容这个过程是对声音的中和，让声音不再是一个人的特异之处，而是可以让人隐于无形的伪装，让他融入环境之中，不被注意到。我觉得自己没看过其他东西能像这部影片一样，如此近距离如此直观地描绘作为外来人的状态，描绘出他们不得不为了适应新家园而重塑自己的情形。

▲《完美的声音》中的一幕：移民群体为消除口音在接受课程训练。图片来源：Wellcome Trust

这一主题被艺术家Lawrence Abu Hamdan加以延伸，他拍了一部关于巴基斯坦难民的影片，《穆罕默德（Mohamad）》（2012）。影片带我们来到以嗓音做证据的领域，你说自己是谁你就是谁。Mohamad是一个非法入境的寻求庇护者，他在“口音测试”中读错了三个词——英国边境管理局的语言分析虽被强烈质疑，却是用于拒绝难民的合法工具。当你对任何一位移民领域学者描述Mohamad的例子，他们总是会问他的律师是谁。但事实却是Mohamad被驱逐出境，画面中的肖像显现出他受苦受难的状态——由于被嗓音出卖，他现在无处安身，生命中的所有装置似乎都被从他身上拆除了。

正如你的声音可以出卖你，也可以成功地掩饰你或没能奏效，它显然还可以成为自我表现的有力来源。“我爱自己的声音”，Anderson说，“它让我生活得很好。这很有趣，当我们在拍影片时，Chris告诉我说，有些变性后的女性表示很难处理她们新的嗓音，因为她们必须在日后生活中学习适应。一些人不得不学习使用一种全新的声音，对她们来说，保持这种声音是有难处的。我把自己声音中所有的低音消除，然后说话变轻，但我一点也不想变得娘娘腔。我认为那跟我不相符。它一直是我的一部分，我也一直使用着这种嗓音。”