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The Voice (n.) I ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠call my own is drawn from a constellation of voices, the murmur from which I take my proper name.

The Voice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠noise from the depths that finds, in a perforated surface — the mouth — the conditions of its articulation.

The Voice (n.) merely ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠holds a note as song; tied to timbre it becomes heterogeneous to itself, no longer accompanied but "machined."

The Voice (n.) from ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on high is the first sketch of language: the family voice that conveys tradition and names the child before he understands — no longer noise, not yet language.

The Voice (n.) machined ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in music — the countertenor singing above his voice, the castrato's stomach voice — abolishes the dualism machine: being a man or a woman no longer exists in music.