Variance: Voice And The Virtual World
How is your voice these days? Are you noticing more fatigue? Is it as dynamic as usual? Do you know? Most of us ignore the voice at times -- perhaps a lot of the time. The issue now, as we…
Variance: Hit The Floor
Your chair is not your friend. Sure, it has provided support in the past. It is a functional part of the spaces we embody. It is also, especially now, a trap of sorts. So today, I'm going to work from…
Variance: Voice Creation
Voice is a creation. I know that definitely sounds a little woo-woo but bear with me. The vocal folds have 4-5 survival functions (depending on how you count them) before we attain sound. Critical stuff, such as: They are the…
Variance: Get Up
Literally, get up. Stand (or sit up, or stretch out as you can), and move. Stretch your arms wide and let your spine articulate. Come back to your body. Breathe in and breathe out, noisily. Make sound and move. We…
Acquire: Planning Committee
Probably the only upside to all of the cancellations in events at the moment is that it creates space. Not just space for Netflix bingeing but honest to goodness, disruptive energy space. There is a pull towards activity, a desire…
Acquire: Fight the Slump
We spend a great deal of time sitting down. That, in and of itself, is less than ideal for health. Still, it is the postural slump that concerns me this morning. The ways in which we allow our torsos to…
Repost: Friday Focus – Alignment in Pursuit of Sound
This post is an oldie but goodie on why alignment matters for voicing. Let me know what you think. Over the past few Fridays, we have explored, in brief, the structure of the vocal instrument. Now we come to the…
Acquire: Resources
What do you need today? On any given day, we are in need of something (or many things). The question is not exclusively how to get those things but what things are worth getting and when. If I need to…
Acquire: Knowledge
I was asked yesterday why some attorneys don't want to know whether a client is guilty or not. I'm not sure this is a universal fact outside of TV dramas, but I do see the point in it. It is…
Acquire: Rules of Order
The first time I encountered Robert's Rules of Order, I thought them completely ridiculous. What possible purpose could they fulfill? Well, now several decades later and having attended too many meetings, I get it. We have a hard time navigating…