Voice-Over-Voice- is a rehearsal. A loop. A set of four listening rooms—each tuned to the voice at work.
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Inside: voice-over artists, professionals of tone and tempo, perform exercises I wrote for them. Instructions fold into performance.
Breath meets beat. Sync, lag, repeat. Again.
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Holding a cultural position in the audio landscape of the UAE, their voices recall familiar transmissions; either through automated messages at the end of telephone lines, polite instructions in metro stations or emphatic displays in radio commercials.The exercises draw on the logics of the machine—repetition, calibration, latency—but remain grounded in the textured rhythms of the body. Where voice becomes a meeting point: between the programmed and the practiced, between technological tempo and cultural training.
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Voice-Over-Voice listens closely to this entanglement. Not just to the voice, but to the infrastructures—manual, digital, social—that shape how it sounds, and when. What is a calibrated voice? Who sets the tempo? What emerges when voices move between scripts—industrial, algorithmic, intimate?
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Follow the link to take you to the exercises:
Exercise 01: Repeat the phrase “Terms and Conditions apply” for a duration of one minute. Each iteration should differ.
Exercise 02: Narrate the script. Increase the intensity of happiness as you go along.
Exercise 03: Perform the Mirror Exercise.
Vocal Artefacts
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