Discover
what a voice really does inside
Are you confused about your throat
constricting?
Do you need to hear and see what singing
nasally means?
What happens to your voice when you yodel or crack?
The Voicebox Videos have been
featured on two BBC programmes - Leading Edge and Science in Action -
broadcast to an estimated
44,000,000
people!
 In 2006
voice expert and author Jeremy Fisher decided to make the UK's
first downloadable endoscopy video ebook.
The Science Museum in London loved the downloads so much they asked
Jeremy to make one especially for them! Now the videos are being used in classrooms and vocal
studios all over the world, and in university voice departments such
as Cambridge and Newcastle.
Now the UK's first downloadable endoscopy video ebooks have been
reformatted onto DVD for use in your home or studio
This
new DVD version of the Voicebox Videos (now in its third
pressing) has been created for those
who do not have internet access in the clinic, who run library, university or
therapy departments and
prefer solid media, or those who use Mac computers.
See quality images of a healthy functioning voicebox and watch
from the inside as professional voice users perform key vocal
manoeuvres.
Jeremy takes the viewer step by step through the
parts of the larynx as viewed on screen. So even if you've never seen a
larynx from the inside before, by the end of the DVD
you will know exactly what you are looking at.
If you are a singer and are about to experience
endoscopy for the first time, you can watch these
films to see what happens and what to look out for
in a voice clinic.
If you are training as a therapist, you can see
clear images of a healthy larynx performing everyday
tasks and specific exercises.
And as one specialist SLT in the UK said: "...very clearly presented, and
I wish some of our ENT staff could get as clear a
view".
STOP PRESS: Speech and Language Therapy In Practice magazine
recently called the DVD "a revision source for an experienced
speech and language therapist. The chapters [4-8] show and train the
technique and Bonus 2 (for the unsqueamish) shows Jeremy's true and
false cords releasing and constricting. Each section is easily
accessed therefore can be repeatedly watched to your heart's
content."
1) The original Voicebox Video downloads
from Vocal Process were saved at a moderate specification due to the
constraints of the downloading system. On this new DVD version the
films are saved at a higher specification in both audio and video.
You get a more accurate view, bigger screen
images and a better sound quality to help
you with clearer understanding of the voice.
The voiceovers have been re-recorded, and
new footage and still images have been used.
This makes the DVD more suitable for
conference and presentation purposes, and
for detailed study in the studio or voice
clinic.
2) The videos will play on external
DVD players or Mac or PC computers
You can use this DVD easily in your studio,
or clinic, or study it at home.
It is
also suitable for university departments and
conservatoires using the Mac computer system -
following a number of emails from disappointed Mac
users who couldn't use the downloads, we have tested the DVD on different Mac
machines and have found it to be compatible.
3) The video footage can be stopped
and "rewound" just like an ordinary DVD
If you want to watch something several
times, you can! And you can freezeframe with
pinpoint accuracy (depending on your DVD
player, of course!).
4) The DVD contains newly recorded
voice-overs spoken by Jeremy Fisher
Jeremy Fisher is the subject of most of the
endoscopy films AND features as narrator, so you can
easily compare his spoken voice with the
singing voice displayed in the endoscopy
footage
5) Watch a healthy larynx in action
Jeremy Fisher and Gillyanne Kayes are the
subjects in these videos - they are renowned
voice experts and authors who know exactly
what they are doing. There are hundreds of
diseased larynx films out there, but very
few showing healthy, functioning larynges in
action. See how the professionals do it from
the inside.
6) The DVD is easy to use
Navigating through the DVD is a
breeze - an animated menu shows mini-representations
displaying the first 10-15 seconds of all six films.
You don't have to be online, you don't have to load extra programs,
just choose one and open it.
The videos contain standard endoscopy and both nasal and oral stroboscopy
producing, as the Singer magazine put it, "Stunning
images".
But
don't take our word for it!
Here's what you have said
about the downloads:
•
Testimonial:
"The films were extremely clear in
quality, and the use of superimposed
outlines to indicate parts of the larynx was
very useful to my students"
Katherine, singing teacher, New Zealand
• Testimonial:
"I would like to let you know that all
my 26 singing pupils have now viewed your
e-book. It has made significant impression
on them and we are finding it can the be
basis of a method to ensure that they are
keeping things "open" and keeping their
voices "out of their throats" and that the
sound they make is focussed. This is
applying to a full range of age group:
people who are 12 years old to two elderly
men I teach in their late 70s." Lizzie,
singing teacher UK
• Testimonial:
"The constriction one especially has been
a revelation. To actually see what the false
vocal folds do and how they affect sound
takes retraction from some abstract concept
to a physical reality." Andy, singer, UK
• Testimonial:
"The Video ebooks shock one into accepting
at a deep the visceral nature of the voice.
Superb job, and again an act of real
generosity towards the voice community."
Jason, singing teacher, UK
• Testimonial:
"I've found the video e-book a really
useful visual aid for teaching-
students are fascinated. It's good to show
any physical evidence that
supports anatomically-based vocal pedagogy."
Louise, conservatoire singing teacher, UK
• Testimonial:
"It is great to be able to show it to my
own students of singing
As a singer these little folds become the
centre of our lives and we always
hope that ours are in good condition."
Linda, Opera singer, UK
Here are four reasons to send for the Voicebox Videos:
1: Most films of the larynx available
today show unhealthy or damaged larynges, or
voiceboxes recovering from surgery. This DVD
contains rare footage of two healthy larynges (male
and female) speaking and singing
2: There are very few films that show
clear footage of different vocal tasks. These films
demonstrate clearly such movements as false vocal
folds constricting and releasing under conscious
control, the "yodel-flip" into falsetto filmed in
close-up stroboscopy to show the different
movements of the vocal folds, and how resonance
(and the comparative lengthening and shortening of
the vocal tract) affects intonation.
3: Many films do not tell you what you are
watching. With each Voicebox Video film Jeremy
includes a video and voiceover section explaining
the vocal apparatus being viewed, and describes the
key points of each vocal task.
4: This footage represents some of the
best-practice voice use today. The video footage is taken from hours of
film shot in three different voice clinics over
several years. Jeremy was fortunate
to share the services of three of the best voice
surgeons from two countries - Julian McGlashan, Tom
Harris and Moshe Harrell. The subjects, Jeremy and
Gillyanne, are highly experienced at holding
particular vocal gestures, and isolating individual
muscle groups while maintaining others.
In summary, here's what you get: This new DVD contains all six Voicebox Video films
in one package:
- Looking at a Voice was the UK's first downloadable
endoscopy video ebook and acts as an introduction to viewing the
larynx speaking and singing.
- Modal to Falsetto 1 - Making the Change shows both
endoscopic and stroboscopic film of a voice moving from a speech
set to a falsetto set, complete with the "yodel-flip".
- Constriction and Release show voluntary opening and
closing of the true and false vocal folds resulting in clear or
constricted phonation (in singing and speaking).
- Modal to Falsetto 2 - Breathy Speech shows the
differences between breathy speech and falsetto and the
resulting movements of the arytenoid cartilages.
- Raising and Lowering the Larynx shows how tuning and
timbre change with the lengthening and shortening of the vocal
tract - the film includes a pitch counter that remains constant
despite changes of "intonation".
- Working the Soft Palate is filmed from inside the
nose and shows the soft palate opening and closing from above.
The film also demonstrates the differences between nasality and
"twang"
The original ebook downloads are still available on the Vocal
Process website for singers and therapists around the world who want
the films individually as an immediate download, even though they
are saved at a lower specification.
Vocal Process has already donated 10% of the proceeds from the
downloads to voice-related charities (currently the British Voice
Association and the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine
- see the Vocal Process website for more details). We are expanding
these donations to include sales of the DVD. So by buying the DVD
you are supporting voice research and vocal health for performers
and teachers.
And there's a Vocal Process guarantee! We guarantee that
if you find the DVD to be faulty in any way we will replace it with
no cost to you. Just return the faulty DVD to us and we will send
you another copy and refund all postage costs to you. (Please
understand that due to the nature of a DVD and its content we cannot
offer refunds on opened items unless they are faulty).
The Voicebox Videos DVD version costs only £47.00 including
postage in the UK. See the shopping cart for details of our
reasonable postage and packing costs outside the UK.
Click on this link to order the DVD from our secure shopping cart
To your success,
P.S. Remember that you get all six Voicebox
Videos in one easy-to-use format. Carry the DVD with you between
home and studio, introduce your pupils to the visual
complexity of a living larynx, share the DVD with
your colleagues at the voice clinic, or get one to
play to your choir members - it could improve their
singing!
P.P.S. The Voicebox Videos DVD
has now sold out twice! The third pressing has just arrived in our
office (November 2009), so make sure you order your copy before they
disappear again.
Order it today by clicking on the link
Vocal Process
Alder Hollow
10 West Wall
Presteigne LD8 2BY
+44 (0)1544 267946
http://www.vocalprocess.co.uk
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