I’ve just taken on a new proofreading client, Stellar Inflight. Very excited to be working with the Stellar team! I’ll be proofing inflight entertainment magazines for various airlines. Reading articles and listings about films, TV and music – talk about being in my element!

In April, I finished voicing a CD that will teach children the alphabet phonics (sounds). I provided spoken and sung phonics, all recorded in my home studio! Can’t wait until the CD’s released!

I’ve recently been turned on to 4 fresh (for me) Australian acts: Tasmanian band, Enola Fall, Sydney’s The Jezabels and two female singers from NSW, Anikiko and Hero Fisher.

It’s not often these days that I hear new music that makes me want to stop what I’m doing and listen wholeheartedly. But these 4 acts have something that instantly reaches into my soul. What is it that touches me so directly? The vocals. The music definitely contributes to the experience, but it’s the vocals that captivate me. It’s the vocals that I still hear in my head when I’m not playing the music. The human voice is a un-matchable instrument!

Click on the artists’ names to visit their websites and check out their music. And let me know what you think!

I was in Chatswood the other day and noticed a sign on a school opposite Chatswood Chase Shopping Centre. It read: Our Lady of Dolours Primary School. I, of course, thought it read: “Our Lady of Primary Colours”. My immediate mental image was of the Virgin Mary clothed in robes of bold red, blue and yellow, like in those camp and gaudy Pierre et Gilles photos - not the ethereal, demure vision in her usual pale blue and white.

Pierre et Gilles - Madone

Akin to misheard song lyrics (there’s a whole website dedicated to those!), this misreading thing can be cultivated. The more you do it, the better you become. If you let your imagination run riot, the mental imagery it conjures can keep you amused ad infinitum – And I like that.

Mind you, I’m forever proofreading signs, leaflets, publications and menus out of habit, so the balance is there.

Yin and yang…

Voice job offers have been heaped on this former radio announcer who had fallen on hard times, according to an an early report in the Dispatch.

And it’s even got the US voice-over industry talking; with some people gracious and others smelling a radio station publicity stunt.

An interesting turn of events, which some may stash in the “only in America” file. Still, I wonder if it could happen here. But good luck to him, I say!

How do these two words get confused? Even when you say them aloud, correctly pronounced, to my ear at least, they don’t sound the same. So maybe that’s the key: mispronunciation may invite incorrect spelling!

Meanwhile, this blog will provide updates on writeNOISE Communications; along with musings, inspirations and observations to do with words – written, spoken… and sung!