Dear readers and music lovers!
How does she come up with something like that again, some people are probably asking.
Well...
Yesterday I had a super interesting and mega exhausting coaching session.
[Those who know me better already know that I am very curious and eternally on the lookout - for lightness, effortlessness, freedom, fun and power and energy in making music as well as in life - and in the course of this I get to know many methods and concepts, try them out and try to integrate them into my system. This ranges from CVT to resonance theory to solar-lunar breathing types to the Lichtenberg method for applied vocal physiology, just looking at the world of singing.
These methods never deal with one thing in isolation, but always set an interaction in motion. In other words, work on the voice has an effect on body and psyche. ]
This is what happened yesterday in my Lichtenberger session (with Belinda Duschek - highly recommended, by the way!), which was about voice, resonance and sensory perception. And somehow also about authenticity and essence.
This way of experiencing music and voice needs patience, silence, imagination and good listening - deep listening. This is something that is often neglected in our fast-paced and success-oriented times. The effect is really amazing.
It would go beyond the scope of this article to describe everything in detail, so here is just a small exercise to try out.
1:
Sit comfortably on a chair with a backrest. Feel both feet well on the floor and notice how the humps of your seat meet the seat surface. Then lean forward, actively looking ahead. Then lean more passively backwards with your back against the backrest and "flatten" yourself on the chair. Then find the middle of both extreme positions, find an upright relaxed sitting posture and let go of the abdominal muscles.
2.
Look around the room. First look actively and let the eyeballs bulge outwards. Then let your eyes sink inwards and let what you see and perceive take effect on you. Go into "receiving mode".
3.
Let your tongue relax and spread out in the bed of your mouth. Then tense the tongue. Then let it go again and open your mouth slightly.
What does this do to your breathing and abdominal muscles?
Are you more often in action mode and tense or in receptive mode and permeable?
This little exercise can help to relieve stress and relax in between.
Try it out!
I learned something similar in an online seminar on resonance teaching with Maria Busqué. Thank you for that!
Again, it's about balance, also in the nervous system.
Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are the opposites here. While the sympathetic nervous system adjusts the organism to an increase in activity ("fight or flight"), the parasympathetic nervous system predominates in phases of rest and regeneration ("rest and digest").
I can assure you that I am very familiar with a system takeover of the sympathetic nervous system. If you are interested in my experiences with panic attacks and burnout, I will tell you about them later.
In any case, tension, stress and too much adrenaline, as can be observed and measured in escape mode, are not conducive to the body's permeability and ability to vibrate.
Much more helpful is a relaxation and softness in the system.
The said Lichtenberg method sees the close connection of hearing, seeing, kinaesthetic perception, nervous system, sound waves, permeability of the membranes, self-organisation and self-regulation of the system and the vocal apparatus via the high frequencies in the formant spectrum from 3000 Hz.
And now what about the egg and the chicken?
I asked myself the same question yesterday. Which came first.
During the singing, there were various instructions in the lesson, verbal impulses for images and ideas, which in turn have an effect on the sound. Or the other way round?
When asked how the images affect the sound, I had to think of chicken and egg. And I can't say exactly.
Perhaps the free sound also causes the inner images to emerge.
Whatever the case, it leads to a sonorous, resonant result and experience. It makes you fresh and awake and calm.
That's great!
And I think the inner image is the egg! So first the egg.
Happy Easter everybody and good resonance!
Yours,
Britta
Videos:
In this still live-music-reduced time, I've been busy with alternative forms of expression for creative energy and made some videos again.
If you haven't seen them on socialmedia yet, feel free to check them out here.
This is a cover version of India Arie's song "Soulbird rise", which Inge Rambags from Holland and Corinne Schmidiger from Switzerland and I recorded last summer in Rotterdam. Inge did a great job mixing the audio track!
One rainy weekend I suddenly had the idea for this video. I wanted to make a kind of animated film, animated images alternating with real images, and I tinkered, painted and photographed and spent hours immersing myself in this new world.
Here is the result. It's not perfect, but it's made with a lot of love !
