"and as i was going up the scale, i would just sob in the middle of her workshop space. just me and her, with her, like, beatles posters and her purple glasses. and she's like, this is good. this means we're doing the work. this is great."
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"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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very short on details but i found an article
“breathing techniques and stretches,” “moving meditation, moving yoga,” “open their throats, and their respiratory systems, and basically their whole bodies”
hmhmhmmmmmmmmmm
netflixqueue.com/liz-caplan-tra
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It makes intuitive sense to me that vocal expression would be tied to nervous system health, had made a thread on this
Super super cool that the feedback goes both ways
Thanks for posting this
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wondering if it's also what can make someone a good singer, and what we like about certain artists who don't have conventionally 'good' voices
and if you can become a better singer/artist by improving the health of your nervous system
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(also oh snap you're the guy who wrote the dark magicians piece! followed)
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glad you enjoyed :) I had had it in the drafts but wrote it after reading Aellas, which I finally read because of your tweet
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damn the circle of life is real huh!
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