"and i'm just, like, fully sobbing just because i've reached another octave or another note in my body. like there's a part of my body that had been shut off."
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"y'know, 'cause what she wants you to get to is ultimately that place when you're born and you're just screaming. and there's no tension. it's all, again, going back to total freedom, letting the unconscious come through, letting the dreams come through."
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"like, just being fully wholly completely in touch with the self, which we're never gonna get to until, if we're lucky, the last breath of our lives. and that's what keeps us in that divine dissatifaction place with our voice or otherwise with our craft."
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(some other guy) "sounds like therapy"
"oh yeah, it is. oh no, all of this, this is all therapy."
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this is wild to me. i've experienced exactly this shift from the other direction - unblocked some big tension, gained access to a part of my body i didn't have access to before, and found a *new resonance in my singing voice* that wasn't there before
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idk what exactly andrew garfield was doing with this woman but sounds like there's a chance they were doing it from the other direction - looking for blocks by starting from what notes he couldn't sing. which is fascinating and i might try it. hmm
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This was very interesting to read! Particularly hearing this from the perspective of someone trying to improve their craft. Like I’ve heard similar things from yogic singing tradition, it’s taught at one level as a form of inner yoga which helps massage knots free etc
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But that doesn’t necessarily end up with good singing, like it might be powerful or free/freeing, but also doesn’t have the same technique/discipline connected to aiming at singing technically well. Some yogis I’ve heard have pretty odd sounding singing voices come to think of it
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yeah there’s an interesting tension there. i am generally fascinated by the question of what it might mean to sing in one’s “genuine” voice - the least like an imitation, the least strained, the most powerful - thinking about stories of zen masters with gigantic voices
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Yeah that is an interesting question. I was being taught a sort of shout thing once, a kind of mantra, and I asked how he got it so loud, he said ‘oh, well when there is less clinging your body starts to transform because your idea of the body can’t really take it, it’s too much’
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this is all anybody would’ve needed to tell me to convince me to take spiritual practice seriously at, like, any age after 6
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Aww. you must have been a very interesting 6 year old.
I’m going to put my phone down and sing to the sky now but you might like the Milarepa quote in this tweet:
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Mini-retreat in the hills this weekend.
Remembering the words of a lovely nutter:
"Let mind rest within itself;
All that appears, naturally liberated.
Know your body as appearance-emptiness,
Then, when you run about, sing or dance,
You express natural trulkhor:
Ha ha! Hee hee!"
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