I recently heard someone describe a voice message as a more intimate version of a text message, because receiving one from someone feels like “they’re whispering in your ear.” For me, they’re somewhere on the intimacy gradient between text and conversation. Hearing a voice, the cadence of a sentence, the various shades of sound, adds the familiar depth and dimensionality of an in-person exchange. But voice messages allow time for contemplation, listening back, formulating a response. There’s a different durational quality to it—a conversation, suspended.
For further suspension (and I guess, preservation) I thought it might be fun to add email to the mix. Each newsletter is recorded as a voice note and embedded in the email. It’s a newsletter you listen to.
The cadence/frequency of this email ebbs and flows, like all good things. You will receive it…every once and a while…
