hunbjorn

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hunbjorn
@hunbjorn

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About hunbjorn

I'm a former teacher of writing and composition at the College level. My own degrees are in Literature with a specialty in English Renaissance poetry. I am a writer and researcher professionally.


I have had vocal training in singing, primarily, and have an extensive vocal range best suited for Tenor (I can sing in the Baritone range as well, but don't have a great deal of resonance).

I'm doing voice acting primarily as a way of learning about vocal processing and editing.

But music production is a side interest as well, since I have decades of experience and vocal training as a singer, both choir (instructor: Phyllis Vogel, Milton Bliss) and solo singing, stringed instrument accompaniment (guitar, banjo), and bagpiper (instructors: Alasdair Gillies, Norman MacLeod, Nancy Tunicliffe, Scot Walker).

Demos & Samples
Sample Normal Speaking Voice, North American "Midlands" Southern
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This is my normal speaking voice demonstrating my typical voice patterns, inflection, and interpretation of lines. The quotes are all from C.S. Lewis.

Sample Germanic Philosopher
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This is a sample clip to demonstrate my imitation of such thinkers as Immanuel Kant. The quotes I use are all from C.S. Lewis.

Sample Singing North American "Grand Ole Opry" Southern
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This clip, a couple of verses from the very short Patsy Cline tune "Come on In (And Make Yourself at Home)" is intended to present my use of the Virginia-based Southern accent heard commonly on a very old North American music variety show called "The Grand Ole Opry." It was based in Nashville, Tennesee, the "homeplace of Country Music." The clip has only been edited for background noise reduction, so I am NOT showing it as a professional demonstration of my singing. I can carry a tune, which might be useful in VA, but that's not this clip's intent.

Sample "Andy Taylor Southern" (North Carolina) Accent
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This clip is demonstrating the accent common to the area where I was raised. The quotes are from a North carolina native who was an actor of a situation comedy in the 1960's called "The Andy Griffith Show."  "Southern" Accents tend to be grouped together under the classification "Texan", but the Texas accent is quite different from the other "Southern" accents heard in the East Coast Southern United States: the "Mountain" Southern (North Carolina, Tennessee, Virgina--Think "Dukes of Hazard," or "Coal Miner's Daughter"), the smoother "Drawl"  (Georgia, South Carolina--Think "Steel Magnolias"), or the slightly quicker "Hank Williams Southern" in the Southern area east of Texas (Louisiana, Alabama--Think "Forrest Gump")

"Au Joly Jeu" (Clément Janequin, c. 1500)
My rendition of Renaissance era French madrigal "Au Joly Jeu" : Au joly jeu du pousse avant, Il fait bon jouer. /L'aultrier m'aloye esbaloyer, / Je rencontray la belle au corps gent, / Soubzriant doulcement, la vois baiser. / Elle en fait doute, mais je la boute, / Laissez, laissez, laissez trut avant. /Au joly jeu du pousse avant, Il fait bon jouer. / Pour ung reffuz me fault laisser, / Propos luy tins amoureusement, / Soubzriant doulcement, la vois baiser. / Elle riotte, Dance sans notte, /Au joly jeu du pousse avant, /Il fait bon jouer.