How can queer and trans+ folks find routes to vocal embodiment? Embodied Voice is a richly textured three part podcast series. It answers the proposed question by way of deep-tuning, vocal expressions, interviews with professional and non-professional voice users, as well as improvisation, somatic exercises and ambient soundscapes.

Embodied Voice came from audio recorded at the Queering The Voice course, Trans Chorus workshops and as well as individual interviews with both facilitators leading workshops as well as participants who took part across the research period. 

The podcast series has been lovingly edited and narrated by vocalist and facilitator margomool (Trans Chorus). They were interested in enlisting course participants as co-researchers in their research, exploring the question of how embodied singing practices can help us claim more body autonomy and confidence as queer and trans+ people.

Sound design and & mixing by Axel Kacoutié.

How did we become disenfranchised from our voices? Why do so many of us stop singing and lose trust with our voices? 

This first episode breaks down how colonial narratives of the sex/gender binary, as well as Eurocentric vocal practices, tarnish many people’s relationship to their voice. The podcast focuses on how queer people, especially trans and gender non-conforming folks, are disproportionately excluded from the rigidity of many vocal spaces. Through interviews, soundscapes and meditations, this episode offers routes to decolonising the voice outside of whiteness, elitism and ableism in order to find more embodied states of being.

Presented and produced by margomool

Recorded by margomool and Yuki Nakamaya

Featuring ellc | ILĀ | Stephen Davidson

Sound design & mixing by Axel Kacoutié