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Archives for June 2021

Interview with Vocal Coach for Singers & Speakers, Julia Langley – Part 2

June 30, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

In the first part of my interview with Julia Langley, we discussed everything from how she’s transformed her career with life changing events to a few quick exercises that are great for helping singers and speakers to visualizing sound.  I can’t wait for you to jump into this second part of our interview to hear the rest of the great advice and knowledge Julia shares with us.

We discuss:

  • How tone is perceived by an audience (in general)
  • The importance of projection and annunciation 
  • Bringing in dynamics to make vocals interesting
  • Improving your speaking voice for a podcast
  • Great for a podcast – calm vocals and clarity
  • Overcoming vocal battles
  • To improve your voice, record your voice and listen back
  • Where a vocal coach comes in
  • Being okay with who you aren’t
  • Knowing the things you’re not good at allows you to step into what you are good at
  • The need for breath support
  • Standing out
  • Embracing the little pieces of you that allow you to be identifiable
  • Tone and rhythm, how you breathe and where you breathe
  • Your own personal audio branding 
  • Catch phrases 
  • The importance of hearing something over and over again
  • Julia’s first thought when she originally heard the term “audio brand”
  • Where TV shows use their audio brand throughout the show
  • Musical themes across different media to create familiarity and comfort
  • Sound’s role in PTSD
  • Julia’s story with PTSD
  • PTSD makes a physical change in the body and you can’t control your body’s reactions
  • Learning to manage PTSD
  • Using singing as therapy for PTSD
  • Julia’s techniques for working through PTSD situations
  • The role listening to music plays in your brain and on your body
  • The role singing music plays in your brain and on your body
  • Resources to use music to help with PTSD
  • Long term memory and music
  • Julia’s new website and online course
  • All the questions Julia’s course answers

If you want to learn more about Julia or get in contact with her, check out these resources:

Resources on PTSD:

  • Book:  “The Body Keeps The Score: Brain Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Besser Van Der Kolk, M.D.
  • On Amazon video there is a great documentary that addresses PTSD – consequences and overcoming.  It’s called “Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain”

She has two upcoming projects on the subject:  A book she’s writing in the early stages now called “A Warrior’s Hymn – How to bounce back from adversity and find the champion within”.  And a podcast on the same topic.  

She’s also planning on having an online vocal training course by August 2021.

Julia’s website: https://julialangley.net/ (will be live by the time the episode is out)

Julia’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgUhHViaw0FhJ1vDOhq0mAQ 

Julia’s Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/julia.langley 

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco (http://www.humbertofranco.com/)

Would you consider reviewing the Audio Branding Podcast?  If so, here’s the Apple Podcast link: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/audio-branding/id1489042453  And if you like what you hear (and read!) – please do share it with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks so much!

And if you’re interested in crafting an audio brand for your business, why not check out my FREE download – 5 Tips For Implementing An Intentional Audio Strategy at https://voiceoversandvocals.com/audio-branding-strategy/ 

Filed Under: Vocals Tagged With: annunciation, breath support, calm vocal, dynamics, musical themes, personal audio branding, projection, PTSD, singing therapy, speaking for podcasts, tone, TV show audio brands, vocal coach

Interview with Vocal Coach for Singers & Speakers, Julia Langley – Part 1

June 23, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

This is the first part of my interview with vocal coach and professional singer, Julia Langley. She is a vocal coach for singers and speakers and it’s her unique perspective that makes this interview one worth listening to. Julia also shares information with us regarding a horrible accident that forced her to reimagine her career and the blessings she’s taken from it. I love how many actionable tips there are in this episode and I’m sure you’ll be able to find something to relate to your own speaking – no matter what industry you’re in. 

In this interview, we discuss:

  • How Julia is doing and how 2020 went for her
  • Julia’s accident and her recovery journey
  • Julia’s transformation with her career
  • The techniques to better our speaking skills and how they’re the same as those we use for singing
  • Speaking with intention and using tone
  • Where to find confidence
  • Knowing what you have to say is important
  • The mental component of singing and speaking
  • The importance of the first step – starting
  • The benefits of working with a coach
  • Finding your own niche
  • A success story from Julia
  • Refining strengths
  • The power of shifting what you’re focusing on
  • Believing in yourself and reinventing yourself
  • The importance of being resilient 
  • The ways COVID has changed the way Julia teaches
  • Warm up exercises for speakers
  • The importance of breath and what it does for your voice
  • Breath as the foundation for your voice
  • Exercise example – say the ABCs as many times as you can in one breath
  • Speaking is a workout – treat it as such
  • Singing teaches you to listen 
  • Exercise example – the tonal exercise with different levels
  • Music’s effect on our brain
  • Visualizing to help improve your voice
  • How tone gives a different message
  • Using visuals to make sound more tangible
  • The beauty of dissonance in music
  • How speakers need to understand tone to relate to their audience

If you want to learn more about Julia or get in contact with her, check out these resources:

Resources on PTSD:

  • Book:  “The Body Keeps The Score: Brain Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Besser Van Der Kolk, M.D.
  • On Amazon video there is a great documentary that addresses PTSD – consequences and overcoming.  It’s called “Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain”

She has two upcoming projects on the subject:  A book she’s writing in the early stages now called “A Warrior’s Hymn – How to bounce back from adversity and find the champion within”.  And a podcast on the same topic.  

She’s also planning on having an online vocal training course by August 2021.

Julia’s website: https://julialangley.net/ (will be live by the time the episode is out)

Julia’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgUhHViaw0FhJ1vDOhq0mAQ 

Julia’s Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/julia.langley 

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco (http://www.humbertofranco.com/)

Would you consider reviewing the Audio Branding Podcast?  If so, here’s the Apple Podcast link: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/audio-branding/id1489042453  And if you like what you hear (and read!) – please do share it with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks so much!

And if you’re interested in crafting an audio brand for your business, why not check out my FREE download – 5 Tips For Implementing An Intentional Audio Strategy at https://voiceoversandvocals.com/audio-branding-strategy/

Filed Under: Vocals Tagged With: audience, breath, dissonance, mental component, resilient, singing, singing techniques, speaking, speaking techniques, tone, visualization, vocal coach

Positive Vibes Only

June 16, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

Most of us grew up learning that the human body has five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. Everything we know about the world around us comes to us through these senses. We see colors and we hear music. We taste whether our coffee has sugar in it and, especially now that we’re heading into summer, we smell the flowers and feel the warm air. But the world isn’t really divided up as neatly into those senses as it might seem. Depending on how you look at it, we might have anywhere from just three senses to thirty-three or more; they can mix together and split apart in ways that we don’t usually think about. Sound in particularly is really just vibrations filling the air around us, and that simple fact can lead to some fascinating discoveries if we look and listen closer.

Can you see sound? It might seem like the answer is no, but if it’s loud enough, you may notice a window shaking or even feel the floor trembling under your feet. But the truth is that everything carries sound and vibrates with it, even if we can’t normally see it. A few years ago researchers at MIT developed an algorithm they call a “visual microphone,” that can scan video footage to observe the way sound causes everyday objects to invisibly vibrate and then reproduce those sounds. Check out this video for a demonstration of how a houseplant vibrates with the song “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” and how that song can be recreated using those silent vibrations.

Everything around us is humming with sound, even if we don’t always notice it. If the frequency’s too low, we might sense the sound without actually hearing it. Such low, deep sounds are called infrasound and even though we can’t hear them, animals use them for everything from traveling in herds to migrating in the winter to sensing earthquakes and eruptions. And although we can’t directly hear infrasound, we can sense when it’s there, as a vague feeling that something’s making us uncomfortable. Researchers think it might be the reason some houses seem to be haunted, and horror movies have started using infrasound to create a more ghostly atmosphere.

I’ve linked to a video here of a 19Hz infrasound clip if you’d like to hear, or feel, it for yourself. You’ll need headphones to play back such a low frequency, and be careful: you might end up feeling nervous, dizzy or even a little sick to your stomach.

Most of us spend every moment of our lives surrounded by sound, so what happens when all of that sound’s taken away? The answer can be found in an anechoic chamber, a soundproof room that’s designed to absorb all sounds, both inside and out. Two such rooms, one at Orfield Labs in Minneapolis and the other at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, hold the record as the quietest places on Earth. They’re so quiet that nobody’s ever stayed inside one for more than an hour. Even walking can be a challenge without any footsteps, and hearing nothing but the sound of your own heart, your stomach, even your bones, ends up being too much.

When you’re ready for some noise, though, there’s one animal that’s not only one of the loudest creatures in the ocean, but also one of the smallest. It’s called the snapping shrimp, and it measures just a few centimeters from head to tail. It uses sound as a weapon, launching superheated bubbles through the water that burst at over 200 decibels, louder than a blue whale. These bubbles are so loud that they can even drown out submarines and sonar equipment.

So, can we see sound? The sound of a snapping shrimp’s claw can be so loud that it literally creates a burst of light, but there’s a safer way to view sound waves for ourselves. It’s known as cymatics, the study of sound visualization, and it uses everything from flowing water to grains of sand to help reveal the invisible patterns that sound creates all around us. Be sure to check the video below for an exciting music video by electronic composer Nigel Stanford called “Cymatics” that shows just how many different forms music can take.

Whether we’re walking along the beach or just stuck in traffic, listening to music or enjoying the peace and quiet, we’re immersed in a flowing sea of sound, a secret symphony of complex patterns and vibrations hidden just below the surface of what we hear.

Would you consider giving this podcast an honest review? You can do that here: https://lovethepodcast.com/audiobranding.  And if you like what you hear (and read!) – please do share it with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks so much!

And if you’re interested in crafting an audio brand for your business, why not check out my FREE download – 5 Tips For Implementing An Intentional Audio Strategy at https://voiceoversandvocals.com/audio-branding-strategy/

Filed Under: Research, Research & Technology Tagged With: anechoic chamber, cymatics, human senses, infrasound, low frequency sound, snapping shrimp, sound, sound vibrations

Interview with Jim Kennelly & Sam Ufret from Lotas Productions in NYC – Part 2

June 9, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

This is the second part of my interview with Jim Kennelly and Sam Ufret. In the first part, we discuss their business, Lotas Productions and how both Jim and Sam got into this industry. In this second part, we dive more into the industry of voice overs itself and where we see this industry going in the future.
We discuss:

  • Being open to diversity in voices
  • How Jim and Sam use their best judgement when casting voice overs
  • Being aware of who else may benefit from your services and how voice overs can increase your reach
  • The return of the jingle 
  • The increased reach of where voice overs can be found
  • The goal of the voice over being an emotional impact
  • How we’re really at the infancy of voice overs and audio branding
  • How close we are to having AI and synthetic voices everywhere
  • Asking the question- “is there something to this?” when finding out how to make synthetic voices sound natural
  • When synthetic voice will be used in the future
  • How synthetic voice not actually taking jobs, just adding to your portfolio
  • How the future of AI looks like separate voices for advertising different products
  • The future of conversational design
  • New tech coming to voice overs
  • Globalization of voice overs other industries
  • Clubhouse and its part in the globalization of the voice industry 
  • New technology when it comes to voice auditions 
  • Personalizing this industry and giving/getting real feedback
  • Designing for the newest generation of voice producers

If you want to get in contact with Lotas Productions:

Company Website: https://www.lotasproductions.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lotas-productions/about/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lotasproductions/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LotasProdsVOs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LotasProductions/ 

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco (http://www.humbertofranco.com/).

Would you consider giving this podcast an honest review? You can do that here: https://lovethepodcast.com/audiobranding.  And if you like what you hear (and read!) – please do share it with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks so much!

And if you’re interested in crafting an audio brand for your business, why not check out my FREE download – 5 Tips For Implementing An Intentional Audio Strategy at https://voiceoversandvocals.com/audio-branding-strategy/ 

Filed Under: Voiceovers, Voiceovers & Public Speaking Tagged With: advertising, audio branding, clubhouse, conversational design, diversity in voices, emotional impact, globalization, jingle, synthetic voices, voice auditions, voice producers, voiceovers

Interview with Jim Kennelly & Sam Ufret from Lotas Productions in NYC – Part 1

June 2, 2021 by Jodi Krangle

 

I’m really excited to be speaking with these two guests – Jim Kennelly and Sam Ufret. Jim is one of the powerhouses behind Lotas Productions and has spent his career looking for the perfect voice for each project he’s been a part of. Sam is in the thick of everything over at Lotas. She has an amazing talent for the production end of things and both she and Jim are fighting every day for diversity in the voice over business.  This interview was a wonderful insight into the future of voice overs and I can’t wait to share it with you.

We discuss:

  • Jim and Sam’s positive spin on COVID and what it’s been able to do with their business
  • The technology that’s connected us through COVID
  • Voice overs have always been a work from home industry
  • COVID being a push for talent to create a home studio
  • The reasons people didn’t want to create a home studio before COVID
  • Jim and Sam’s favorite part of working at Lotas
  • The future of voice overs
  • How sound influenced Jim’s pursuit of voice overs
  • Sam’s first encounter with GarageBand
  • How Sam loved the idea of being in the war room of a news studio
  • How Jim started Lotas to connect with people around the world
  • The Origins of Lotas Productions
  • The emerging fields of voice overs
  • The most popular voices pre-COVID
  • Implementing diversity in their voiceovers 
  • The importance of seeing yourself in the media
  • Bringing forth the diversity of ideas
  • The cycles of sound
  • Audio branding as casting 101
  • The left brain/ right brain divide and how Lotus closes that gap
  • Using multiple voices within your audio branding
  • The growth of regional spots
  • The industries now using voice overs

If you want to get in contact with Lotas Productions:

Company Website: https://www.lotasproductions.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lotas-productions/about/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lotasproductions/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LotasProdsVOs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LotasProductions/ 

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco (http://www.humbertofranco.com/).

Would you consider giving this podcast an honest review? You can do that here: https://lovethepodcast.com/audiobranding.  And if you like what you hear (and read!) – please do share it with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks so much!

And if you’re interested in crafting an audio brand for your business, why not check out my FREE download – 5 Tips For Implementing An Intentional Audio Strategy at https://voiceoversandvocals.com/audio-branding-strategy/

Filed Under: Voiceovers, Voiceovers & Public Speaking Tagged With: audio branding, cycle of sound, diversity in voiceovers, GarageBrand, home studio, left brain/right brain divide, Lotas Productions, media, regional voiceovers, voiceovers

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