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Vocal Process News Archive...
31 December 2002
Monthly Summary
First of all, thank
you to all the people who responded to our email about this website.
We have had an astonishing response, with over 1,000 pages
downloaded in just one week. More than 90 of you wanted to hear me
sing Happy Birthday in four qualities! Keep calling back, as we have
lots of new plans for the site.
Our first Vocal
Proficiency course last month, designed as a learn-and-takeaway day,
was attended by actors, singers of jazz and barbershop, teachers,
and a community musician. The aim was to help people experience the
techniques described in Singing and The Actor. Gillyanne took
everyone through retraction (open throat), the siren (range), nasal
port (resonance), elastic recoil (breathing),and anchoring
(support). The day is both a standalone course and an introduction
to our deeper work, including the Core Training scheduled for July
2003.
And finally, that
report of Gillian's masterclass tour of American universities. Here
is an excerpt about the classes at KU:
With a mixed group
of sophomores and Seniors I embarked on a vocal warm-up that would
put them in touch with key moveable structures and lead them into
exploration with classical text.
The students were
asked to explore change of onset at new verse lines, then at each
change of thought, then – finally – from their own impulse.
One advanced student
reported that it was really amazing to explore sound qualities this
way and that it enabled him to discover new meanings in the text
without reference necessarily to intention and objective. His
reading of the text became more ‘layered’.
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