{"id":462,"date":"2018-08-30T21:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T21:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2018-08-30T21:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T21:32:54","slug":"blr-and-the-displacement-of-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/blog-06\/blr-and-the-displacement-of-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"BLR and the displacement of voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In all forms of writing, from academic to artistic, there is a large emphasis placed on the strength of the writer\u2019s \u201cvoice,\u201d and that the strength of this voice generally correlates to the quality and power of the writing. From a writer\u2019s voice we interpolate their personality, who they are, what their message is, and what makes them unique, and, in general, we assume the voice and the author are connected: if I\u2019m watching a clip of Bernie Sanders give a speech, I believe that it is Bernie Sanders&#8217; voice coming through my speakers. To frame this in terms of Aristotle\u2019s work, we assume that the \u201cimpact of the inbreathed air against the windpipe\u201d is originating from the windpipe of the individual we\u00a0<em>see <\/em>is talking. The \u201cBad Lip Reading\u201d clips play off of that idea by robbing and distorting an individual\u2019s voice while still satisfying the visual component of listening \u2013 we can match the words of the voiceover with the movement of the subject\u2019s mouth, their facial expressions, and their gestures. Particularly with the presidential debate editions of BLR, it becomes extremely satisfying and funny to see individuals \u201csay\u201d things that we know they would never say. However, it is not hard to envision this robbing and replacing of the voice (or, the displacement of the origin of the voice from one windpipe to a different windpipe) being used in ways that are disconcerting and dangerous. We are already approaching a point in our society of truth not being truth. What will happen when voice is no longer voice &#8212; In other words, when an individual voice can be put in anyone\u2019s mouth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all forms of writing, from academic to artistic, there is a large emphasis placed on the strength of the writer\u2019s \u201cvoice,\u201d and that the strength of this voice generally correlates to the quality and power of the writing. From a writer\u2019s voice we interpolate their personality, who they are, what their message is, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-06","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}