I remember in Ruth's lecture last year, there was something quite mesmerising about her performance. In particular, I remember how concise and clear her speech was which really helped with attempting to pay close attention to the text she was reading - emphasising certain words and creating a lulling rhythm. I also took part in her workshop on voice technique and have tried to adapt a few of the skills learnt during it. I kind of struggle with diction in my day to day speech, and have purposefully changed my pronunciation of certain words since I moved up North becasue I found fairly often that people couldn't understand me, so this piece was a real effort to speak with clear diction. When speaking the text for my piece this term, I tried to think of the 'O' activity we did where we thought about 'filling the interior architecture' with our voices using only the vowel 'O', using it in that intangible sculptural way. I know my speech doesn't fully relate around that idea becasue it wors better in a performance context, but was a point to think about when speaking infront of the microphone.