“Can you sound like a mad clown in a cowshed?”
The phone rang. It was a regular customer. "Can you sound like a mad clown in a cowshed?" "Do bears shit the pope?" I quipped. "What?" said the customer. "Never mind. I'll send you the script and we'll give it a try." The script was an intriguing series of non…
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“Dear Emma Clarke, do you do men?”
Reader, it's a question I'm sometimes asked. In this case, the follow-up question was "Specifically, do you do Yorkshire men? In a comedy way?" O the answers I could've supplied. As a pro voiceover the requests I get from customers are rich and varied. "Can you sound normal?" (Tricky, but…
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“Emma, could you try and sound a bit less sexy?”
This is a curious piece of audio created for me by a much-loved producer customer. It features several outtakes from one of my recording sessions. The copywriter had specified on the script that he didn't want me to sound too…
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Exploring Tr*mp’s words
Yesterday Donald Tr*mp gave a press conference that was arguably the most bizarre and terrifying spectacle I've ever seen. Some of his words made no sense whatsoever. I thought it'd be fun (?) to record just a sentence, ONE SENTENCE, in a few different voices to see if…
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Making beautiful music
I'm delighted to share this collaboration with you. It's an ambient music project I've worked on with From The Forest. I've done the vocals. The vibe they were after was very other-worldly. The track features a soundscape that'll take you to another time and place. Put your headphones…
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The oddest, most brilliant, most fascinating project I’ve ever recorded
Late last year I worked on the oddest, most brilliant, most challenging job I've ever recorded. And I say this as a woman who's played the part of a talking toothbrush. Truly, it was an honour. In 1890 (some time before I was born) Oxford University embarked on an…
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