ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes on the link between breath and text and develops an understanding of text from other materials of voice, specifically how sound behaves in language. It investigates an adaptation of this relationship through a practice-as-research methodological approach within a set of original, devised projects exploring how sound/voice functions as "text." The chapter introduces the specific integration of p'ansori character and performance structure with the interview/storytelling techniques of oral historian, Studs Terkel, as another set of methods employed for these projects. Students devised voice training exercises based on their experiences in the market. One exercise was nicknamed "Competing Voices." The rhetoric shaping phrases like "universal principle to 'living’ and "evils of civilization" is startlingly similar to the language used in modern voice texts. A different "way of working," or training, the voice was made possible by strategically rethinking certain principles of voice practice through the cultural and educational context at KNUA.
