Duality of Voice

"Duality of Voice" by Emil Sutro is a study about the human voice and its creation. The book looks at Sutro's idea that making sound involves a double process that goes beyond just how our bodies are built. Sutro explains that voice comes from two paths we breathe through, not just the usual voice box area, which changes how we think about voice science and the mind. The book starts with Sutro talking about how he found out that voices use both the windpipe and another tube called the œsophagus. He describes how he looked inside himself to learn about voice production, discovering that both our body parts and something deeper inside us are involved in making sound. Sutro shares why he first started studying voices, which was to get better at pronouncing English, and thinks his research could teach us big things about being human and our dual existences. He mixes his own story with scientific questions to make us rethink voices and how they connect to what it means to be human.