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By Blanca de Lizaur, PhD, MA, BA, Content specialist.

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THE POWER OF SOUND –…by its effects you shall know it; talk by Julian Treasure

In the same way that “no action is without an equal and opposite reaction”, there are no sounds that produce no effects.
And precisely because they generate things inside of us –they change us–, sounds are powerful: Just as they make us happy or well, they make us uncomfortable or ill.
That said, what do we know about them?; what are their effects?
Do we know how to use them, both in our professional lives (for example: as a brand for our product), as well as in our private lives?
Julian Treasure is a professional who creates sounds for marketing and for communications media. And today’s talk (the video) –the first of three–, simply and brilliantly introduces us to the world of sounds. Because “hearing better”, is living better…

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Everything YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR VOICE…, but couldn’t find whom to ask!

Our voices have an almost magical power to attract or repel other people. And in indigenous cultures –oral and rural ones, mainly–, a person’s voice IS the person, as it reflects their soul, their essence, their self. “There is no index of character so sure as the voice” (Benjamín Disraeli).

In this article we explain how we produce our voice, what impacts on it, why it sounds the way it does, and how to educate it to make a better impression on others… That is: A better impression, but without lying; only seeking to make our voice reflect who we really are. Struggling to make it beautiful, good and pleasant –yes, but because WE ARE those things as well…