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Movies Are ReelDiscussing the Movies of March and April 2025WE ARE ALMOST CAUGHT UP! MARCH AND APRIL LETS GO
MARCH
Mickey 17- dir. Bong Joon Ho; Robert Pattinson(x17), Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette
Plankton: The Movie- dir. Dave Needham; Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence, Clancy Brown, Mary Jo Catlett, Lori Alan
Opus- dir. Mark Anthony Green; Ayo Edibiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Melissa Chambers, Tony Hale, Stephanie Suganami, Mark Siversten, Amber Midthunder
The Electric State- dir. Joe and Anthony Russo; Millie Bobby Brown, Crisp Rat, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, Gioncarlo Esposito, Stanley Tucci...2025-05-261h 31
VocalScope028 - Susan Lowell de Solórzano on biotensegrity and the voice.Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.
Susan Lowell de Solórzano first stumbled onto biotensegrity in 2008 while trying to deepen her understanding of the practice and classic writings of T’ai Chi Ch’uan; she has been a student of biotensegrity ever since. Susan began working directly with Steve Levin in 2009, and co-founded the Stephen M. Levin Biotensegrity Archive with Steve and his wife, Olga Cox-Levin, in 2015. Her book, Everything Moves: How biotensegrity informs human movement was published by Handspring Publishing in 2020. Susan is showrunner/ co-producer/ co-host of the BiotensegriTea Parties, author of the Biotensegrity Archive’s B...2024-05-3049 minVocalScope027 - Tina Margareta Nilssen unleashing the potential of singers bodiesPresented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.
Tina is the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support technique and performance for musicians. In 2013 she founded the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI) where she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, ev...2024-05-2951 minVocalScope026 - Xenia Pestova Bennett on befriending performance anxiety.Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.
"Xenia's approach to this subject is a breath of fresh air. Broadly rooted in calming down our physiological responses, she opens up important areas of exploration with a light touch and keen insight."
- Steven Osborne, concert pianist
Dr Xenia Pestova Bennett is an internationally active concert pianist and composer. She combines her research and experience in performance anxiety with extensive accredited training as a yoga, breathwork and meditation instructor. Having studied in the UK, The Netherlands and Canada, Xe...2024-05-2244 minVocalScope025 - Nina Sun Eidsheim on polylistening and how racial listening bias plays out in voice training and music careers.Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.
Nina Sun Eidsheim (she/her) is Professor of Musicology, at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. She is also a vocalist and the founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis, in and through multisensory creative practices.
She writes about voice, race, and materiality, including the books Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African A...2024-05-1452 minVocalScope024 - Sally Anne Gross - Can Music Make You Sick? The impacts of being a Music Artist on mental health and wellbeing.Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.
Can music make you sick? Is being a music artist detrimental to a musician's wellbeing and mental health? What are the impacts of saturation caused by the digital age on the music maker and the consumer? How can the music industry be totally transformed into a better music making and consuming world for us all?
Sally Anne Gross is both a music industry practitioner and an academic who in 1993 was the first women to work as an A&R manager at...2024-04-0900 minVocalScope023 - Matthew Mills on Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Affirming Voice CarePresented by Juliette Caton / Edited by Sam Benoiton
Matthew Mills (he, him) is a Lead Consultant Speech and Language Therapist, and Head of Speech and Language Therapy at the London Gender Identity Clinic, where he has worked since 2009. He is a National Adviser in Trans Voice for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, founder member of the Trans Voice Clinical Excellence Network and External Examiner for the Voice Studies MA/MFA at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Matthew is current President of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialsts (BAGIS).
2024-02-1351 minVocalScope022 - Gillie Stoneham on working with Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Expansive VoicesPresented by Juliette Caton
Edited by Sam Benoiton
Gillie Stoneham began her career as a speech and language therapist and after completing her Masters in Human Communication was a Senior Lecturer on a BSc Speech Language Therapy programme for many years.
She began to specialise in voice both within this role and through her company which offers theatre skills in the workplace to build personal impact.
Through clinical practice within her lecturing role she first worked in gender affirming voice and communication in 2006 in the Sou...2024-01-1541 minVocalScope2023 VocalScope Book Club Reading List Launch - Season 1 'Trans & Non-Binary Voices' & Season 2 'Sounds of Race'.Vocalscope Podcast & Book Club Host, Juliette Caton, announces the 2023 VocalScope Book Club Reading List, which launches with the first two seasons - 'Trans & Non-Binary Voices' (Season 1 - January to March) and 'Sounds of Race' (Season 2 - April to July).
In the VocalScope Book Club members get to:
READ & DISCUSS
Nominate and vote for the monthly book selection. Share the journey of reading and learning along the way with like-minded practise focussed peers in our online members group.
QUESTION & PROCESS
VocalScope Podcast Presenter, Juliette C...2023-01-0111 minVocalScope021 - Jesse Smith on bringing vocals to Strictly and the challenges of an album launch as a self releasing singer-songwriter.Jesse Smith is a rock singer, musician and songwriter based in London. A rock and pop vocalist, a self releasing singer songwriter and also currently working as a singer on the BBC’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ series under the genius musical direction of Dave Arch, Jesse is the front man for the band Romances, The Legacy Showband, The Classic Rock Show, Boot Led Zeppelin and London's premier rock night - Rock The Boat.
Jesse also starred in Thriller Live in the West End and has toured Europe with the cult heavy-metal cinematic experience Gutterdämmerung.
With th...2023-01-0143 minVocalScope020 - Tessa Niles backing singer to the stars discusses her career and her autobiography BACKTRACK.Tessa Niles first entered the music scene in 1981 and has since become one of the best known session singers of the past three decades.
With her versatile voice and ability to blend within a myriad of styles, she has hundreds of recording credits and live appearances to her name, performing with some of the biggest names in the music industry.
If you were listening to music during the 1980’s and 90’s then chances are that she performed live with some of your favourite artists and sang on your most loved tracks as she has worked with Bowie, Tina Turner, Sting, Dura...2022-11-2946 minVocalScope019 - Dr. Elisa Monti on becoming a Trauma informed Voice Professional.As voice coaches and singing teachers we are often reminded and acutely aware of ‘staying in our lane’ and whilst its fully appreciated and respected that vocal coaches and singing teachers are not (unless previously trained) psychotherapists or trauma specialists, this doesn’t mean that we won’t come across students, clients, choir members, performers or colleagues who are in the throes of a trauma response during our work together. The voice is an emotional tool and we can’t escape the fact that trauma is something that affects the voice, the learner, the performer, the human.
So, in tod...2022-11-2254 minVocalScope018 - Lynn Helding discusses the 'Musician's Mind', the changing relationship between the sciences & art and what her research can teach us about being better singers, musicians and artists.Professor of Practice in Voice and Vocal Pedagogy at USC’s Thornton School of Music, Helding is also the author of The Musician's Mind: Teaching, Learning & Performance in the Age of Brain Science. Lynn also authored the chapter “Brain” in Your Voice: An Inside View. At the time of recording this episode she was an associate editor of the Journal of Singing and since recording this interview she has been made Editor in Chief.
A devoted teacher, she was recognized as a “legendary figure in the field of voice pedagogy” by the Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM...2022-11-1555 min
VocalScope017 - VocalScope: Nathan James - Managing the demands of being a touring Rock Singer.Lead Singer of British Rock Band 'Inglorious', Singer-Songwriter Nathan James, discusses his career, how he manages the demands of being an internationally touring Rock Singer, and the unique relationship that can exist between a Singer and Vocal Coach when they have worked together for nearly two decades.
Nathan's Twitter & Insta: @thenathanjames
Inglorious: http://inglorious.com
Inglorious Socials: @weareinglorious
VOICE CHOICE Listen to Nathan’s favourite 'Voice Choice' on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e
VOCAL...2022-02-2354 min
VocalScope016 - VocalScope: Kim Chandler - Training the Pop Singer.With three decades of high-end performing experience in both live performance and studio singing Kim Chandler’s voice can be heard on films, albums and thousands of jingles worldwide. She has been a backing vocalist for high-profile artists such as Natalie Cole, Michael Bolton, Leo Sayer and The Bee Gees and has performed at some of London’s most iconic locations including the Royal Albert Hall, Downing Street, the O2 Arena and Buckingham Palace.
As one of the world’s leading contemporary vocal coaches she runs a busy private studio in Marbella, Spain, where she coaches an elite clientele of profes...2022-02-0951 minVocalScope015 - VocalScope: Andrew Byrne, Author of The Singing Athlete discusses using neurology to enhance voice training.Andrew Byrne is a voice teacher, vocal coach, composer, performer and music director. He is the creator of The Singing Athlete, a training program that applies functional neuroscience and athletic training to the voice studio. Andrew was twice named one of the “Favorite Vocal Coaches” in NYC Backstage Reader’s Choice Awards, and is also a frequent contributor to their experts column. In the past few seasons, his students have been seen in many Broadway shows.
Andrew was the singing coach for The Real Thing, starring Ewan MacGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Cynthia Nixon, and The Bridge Project, directed by Academy Award w...2021-11-0851 minVocalScope014 - VocalScope: Joanne Bozeman discusses 'Singing Through Change', Perimenopause, Menopause & the Voice just as the Menopause Revolution gathers momentum.This episode is dedicated to all those taking a stand in the #menopauserevolution
Joanne Bozeman introduces herself to us:
“I grew up in a musical home with lots of singing in our daily life, and great music playing on the stereo. I trained at University as a Classical Singer, and performed a wide range of repertoire in my community and regionally.
My career as an independent singing teacher began when I was at university, and I was fortunate to work 26 years at a fine undergraduate conservatory. Now retired from academia.
My lo...2021-11-0155 minVocalScope013 - VocalScope: John Colapinto, Author & Journalist, discusses his extraordinary book 'This Is The Voice'.About John:
JOHN COLAPINTO began his career as a journalist in his native Toronto before moving to New York City in 1989 where he worked as staff writer at Rolling Stone magazine and, later, The New Yorker. He won a National Magazine Award for his Rolling Stone story about the world’s first infant sex reassignment and expanded the story into the New York Times bestselling book As Nature Made Him (currently in development with Peter Jackson as a feature film). His articles have been anthologized in the annual compendiums The Best American Science and Nature Writing (2008, ’10, ‘11); Crime Reporti...2021-08-291h 07VocalScope012 - VocalScope: Nick Clinch on Voice Reels, Voice Overs and setting up a home studio.Nick Clinch is founder of Notable Voices, currently London's highest reviewed voiceover and voice reel service, and there’s a reason for that. After working in audio for 15 years - first as a touring session musician, then as a qualified audio production lecturer - Nick decided to put all this experience into what he refers to as a “much better use” and built his own Voice Reel company.
Unlike any other voice reel recording service you come across, you can work with their experienced engineer and director for up to a full day! Nick takes the time to lea...2020-12-0634 minVocalScope011 - VocalScope: Dr. Ian Howell explains lagless real-time online voice teaching and learning in the Covid era.Dr. Ian Howell is a member of the voice faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he also directs the graduate voice pedagogy program and coaches students in Baroque voice repertory.
Dr. Howell's work explores the special psychoacoustics of the singing voice, with an eye toward practical applications for singers and voice teachers. Human senses interpret reality according to a dependable set of rules. These same senses also perceive greater detail once we internalize more precise labels and conceptual models. Dr. Howell’s work produces new aural/visual models that better characterise the perceptual qualities of...2020-12-041h 29VocalScope010 - VocalScope: Declan Costello discusses aerosol research and the risks associated with singing in the Covid era.A vital listen for all voice users, music makers and audiences alike - Declan Costello ENT, discusses his very recent research into aerosols and the risks and challenges associated with singing in the Covid era.
Mr Declan Costello is a highly experienced consultant laryngologist with extensive expertise in treating all aspects of voice disorders and hoarseness – from vocal cord nodules and cysts to polyps, papilloma, vocal cord paralysis and spasmodic dysphonia.
As a singer himself, he has a particular interest in treating voice disorders in performers. He is also one of the leading exponents of loca...2020-08-2524 minVocalScope009 - VocalScope: Adam Bridges, AKA The Accompanist, discusses working with an accompanist.Welcome back to VocalScope and to our Second series!
Our first guest, who is also our new sponsor, is The Accompanist, Adam Bridges.
Adam is a London based pianist with over 20 years of playing experience and he set up The Accompanist in 2019 to provide a bespoke accompanist and backing track service from piano to full orchestration. Having graduated from both Guildhall School of Music & Drama and London Centre of Contemporary music, his playing ability covers a wide range of genres. He has worked all around the UK and around the world performing and playing and he...2020-08-2516 minVocalScope008 - VocalScope: Jamie Read, Co-Founder & Director of Voice Faculty at READ College, discusses his approach to training Musical Theatre voices at the start of their full time training journey.Jamie Read, Co-Founder and Director of Voice Faculty at READ College, discusses with Juliette his approach to training young Musical Theatre Voices at the beginning of their full time training journey and the challenges they face in preparing for a career in the Musical Theatre industry.
Jamie is a teacher, researcher and writer specialising in Musical Theatre voice, and runs a busy private practice working with voice users from vicars to rappers and opera singers to primary school teachers. He started his career as a dancer, and worked his way into vocal coaching via musical theatre, film...2019-12-0947 minVocalScope007 - VocalScope: Kenneth Bozeman - Author & Professor, shares with us through the lense of his work with vocal acoustics, an extraordinary journey with his own voice.An authority on vocal acoustics, this is a glimpse of a very special human in conversation. Humble, open, wise.
‘Voice is a kind of sound characteristic of what has soul in it; nothing that is without soul utters voice… Voice then is the impact of the inbreathed air against the ‘windpipe’, and the agent that produces the impact is the soul resident in these parts of the body’. Aristotle.
Kenneth Bozeman, Professor of Music, tenor, holds performance degrees from Baylor University and the University of Arizona, and subsequently studied at the State Conservatory of Music in Munich on...2019-10-2438 minVocalScope006 - VocalScope: Debbie Winter, director of Voice Workshop and founder of Voice Geek, shares what is behind her desire to provide opportunities for education within the voice coaching community.Our second 'VocalScope On Tour' episode, (listen beyond the less than perfect 'on location in a campervan' sound levels!) in which Debbie Winter introduces us to what motivated the varied PGCert, MA, qualification pathways she has developed for Voice Practitioners and Pedagogues in the UK and shares with us the inspirational areas of research her cohort are producing work in. With a PhD in the pipeline, and Debbie’s enormously varied programme of short courses too, Voice Workshop is fast becoming a one stop shop for anyone seeking the opportunity to further develop their knowledge, learning and qualifications in th...2019-10-2225 minVocalScope005 - VocalScope: Jai Ramage, TV Show Voice Coach and Artist Manager talks about her journey with her own voice, which lead to her work with new talent and emerging artists in the Music Industry.TV & Music Industry Vocal Coach, Jai Ramage, discusses her approach to her coaching work, and how her experiences as a musical theatre performer have contrasted with and complemented how she now works with voices in the TV and Music Industries; experiences which have all lead to her new career direction into artist management.
http://www.jairamagevoice.com
To contact Jai:
Vocal Coaching: info@JaiRamageVoice.com
Management Enquiries: mgmt@JaiRamageVoice.com
Instagram: @jairamagevoice
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jai-Ramage-Voice-105335376203268/
Jai manages Flo Gallop & Coral Palms
2019-10-2157 minVocalScope004 - VocalScope: Kerrie Obert, Voice Researcher, reveals the challenges voice researchers face and shares wisdom she has gained from her career at the forefront of voice science and pedagogy.Kerrie, fondly known to many as the ‘Twangspert’ for her fascinating research into Twang, gives us an insight into the difficulties she has encountered as a voice scientist, followed by a timely discussion about the importance of all voice practitioners remaining open to each other’s schools of thought and pedagogical methods in the interests of fostering an enquiring and engaged conversation about voice.
Links: www.getvocal-now.com
— Kerrie's science based platform of 30, 60, 90 minute science based certificated classes.
Kerrie’s favourite artist’s song: - Stevie Wonder & Sting - How Fragile We Are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnZgNYoZkeU2019-09-0638 minVocalScope003 - VocalScope: Walt Fritz explains Myofascial Release Therapy, his approach to the work and the potential for this manual therapy to impact the voice.Meet Walt Fritz, a physical therapist from New York who's been using manual therapy as his primary intervention strategy for over 25 years and for the past 6 years has been addressing Neck, Swallowing & Voice Disorders through a technique called Myofascial Release.
Walt has been an educator since 1995 and travels throughout the USA and internationally, presenting his work to speech pathologists, massage therapists and vocal coaches.
In this episode Walt shares with host, Juliette Caton, his approach to this work, describes what a Myofascial Release treatment session might feel like and how it might apply to our wo...2019-04-1335 minVocalScope002 - VocalScope: Steve Balsamo shares experiences of his voice from West End crucifixions to ancestral overtone healing to recording as a solo artist.Born and raised in Swansea, UK, Steve started out singing in rock bands as a teenager before he came to the public's attention in the mid '90s by way of a beard, long hair and a loincloth - playing Jesus in a West End revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. Signing to Columbia Records soon after the messiah complex wore off, he was molded into a poppy/rocky/folky/country-ish artist - nothing like covering all the bases - and made an album, All I Am.
"Despite the musical schizophrenia, he had a ton of fun travelling th...2019-04-071h 11VocalScope001 - VocalScope: Meet your host, Juliette Caton.Juliette introduces herself, sharing her journey into working with the Voice and her exciting plans for VocalScope.2019-03-1907 min
Bible Films PodcastLast Temptation of ChristMartin Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ caused uproar when it was first released and even today it's still primarily discussed in those terms. But as it nears its twentieth anniversary it's about time that the film started to be discussed on the basis of its artistic merits.
(Director: Martin Scorsese)
(Cast:Willem Dafoe... Jesus, Harvey Keitel... Judas, Paul Greco... Zealot, Steve Shill... Centurion , Verna Bloom... Mary, Mother of Jesus, Barbara Hershey... Mary Magdalene, Harry Dean Stanton... Saul/Paul, David Bowie... Pontius Pilate, Juliette Caton... Girl Angel , Andre Gregory... John the Baptist, Peggy Gormley... Martha, Sister of Lazarus, Randy...2007-07-3107 min