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The Voice Of Barbelith

Matthew Fluxington

16:03 / 24.01.03

Over in Rage's "nauseous" thread, Jack Fear talks a bit about "how the written voice jibes or fails to jibe with the speaking voice."

How do you imagine some Barbelith posters voices sound based on their writing? Have you met some Barbelith members and been surprised by how right or wrong you were about their voice and cadence?

I know that if I ever meet Haus, I've already got his voice pegged as being quite a lot like Jarvis Cocker's, so I'm probably in for a bit of a surprise, I think.

Jack Fear

16:10 / 24.01.03

First one that springs to my imagination is Whiskey Priestess, who I hear as lively and expressive in conversation, speaking very rapidly and volubly, her voice a bit husky from smoking, with excellent diction and more-or-less received pronunciation—in sum, sort of sounding like a younger A.S. Byatt—punctuating her comments with frequent emphatic gestures.

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:21 / 24.01.03

...which usually knock something over.

Baz Auckland

22:22 / 24.01.03

Before I had met anyone, I pictured all the male posters to resemble King Mob in a way... when I met sleazenation, he looked pretty much like how I had pictured everyone.

The first London Barbemeet I went to, I sat at the bar for a while looking at everyone, and suspecting the table of geeky gothy looking people to be Barbeloids. Since then that's how I pretty much picture everyone I haven't met.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:29 / 24.01.03

I can't help imagining Flux would sound a bit like a cross between Carlito Brigante and Donnie Darko.

Mourne Kransky

01:47 / 25.01.03

I bet Sax sounds just like Michael Palin. Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

And Jack Fear's voice must be seismic, like the Grand Canyon echoing Vin Diesel in a bad mood.

The Return Of Rothkoid

03:37 / 25.01.03

Don't let anyone tell you that I don't sound like James Mason, folks.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:20 / 25.01.03

Funny- before I used him as a ficsuit, Stoatie talked like James Mason. Now he doesn't.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:34 / 25.01.03

And I always imagine Tom speaking like Aaron Spelling did when he played the voice of God that time on "Sunset Beach"...

sleazenation

11:27 / 25.01.03

actually I think jack is pretty dead on with whisky.

Being an E lit graduate i suffer from disenbodied hand syndrome - finding it all too easy to disect texts from the living, breathing, fucking person that wrote them. Ocassionally though i have a flash of insight.
before i met her i pictured mordent as female with long blonde hair. i was sort of right.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:34 / 26.01.03

Sort of.

Goodness Gracious Meme

21:46 / 26.01.03

yeah, that's not how I'd describe her.

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