What is the sound of one ensemble voice?
This voice exists to be in blend with other voices and instruments.
It has no fixed placement. No particular fach nor charateristics, no personally identifiable timbres. The overtone profile adjusts itself to suit the ensemble settings where it happens to be singing. The purpose, la raison d’être of this voice is to enable all voices and instruments to work together. To help make the harmony work.
My prose is also my voice. A voice interwoven with my vocalist voice(s), with other instrumental voices on violin and viola, and with other genres, like my garden. A voice embedded in my human vibrational energy profile. My voices are the pattern of my manifestation as a human being.
I am a choral human, living an ensemble life.
And yet.
Perhaps I need to say some things my section hasn’t yet learned to say, or to sing. Things the composers haven’t yet orchestrated. Things the directors might not yet know how to hear.
What if I need to say some things as this voice.
As this vocalist.
To speak as just one (ensemble) voice, singular.
Not as the voice of an ensemble.
… if only to let it be known that such voices exist.
Human, yet with no separate voice …
I cannot voice separately.
I must express what this is like.
How do I start to express?
Herein lies the central paradox of this narrative.
Yet there is a solution.
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