The Voice Of The Body

Author : Alexander Lowen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781938485053

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The Voice of the Body by Alexander Lowen Pdf

The Voice of the Body is the first publication in a single volume of Alexander Lowen's public lectures known as The Lowen Monographs. This historical collection of twenty-two lectures by one of the founders of contemporary body psychotherapy embodies the groundbreaking principles of Bioenergetics and Bioenergetic Analysis. Presented between 1962 and 1982, these lectures document the depth and breadth of Lowen's work not otherwise detailed in his published work. Poignant and relevant to the challenges of today's world, the topics include: Stress and Illness: A Bioenergetic View; Breathing, Movement and Feeling; Thinking and Feeling: The Bioenergetic Analysis of Thought; Sex and Personality; Self Expression vs. Survival; Aggression and Violence in the Individual; and Psychopathic Behavior and the Psychopathic Personality.

Author : Jelena Novak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317077190

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Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body by Jelena Novak Pdf

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la Bête (Philip Glass), Writing to Vermeer (Louis Andriessen, Peter Greenaway), Three Tales (Steve Reich, Beryl Korot), One (Michel van der Aa), Homeland (Laurie Anderson), and La Commedia (Louis Andriessen, Hal Hartley) - which she terms 'postoperas'. These pieces are sites for creative exploration, where the boundaries of the opera world are stretched. Central to this is the impact of new media, a de-synchronization between image and sound, or a redefinition of body-voice-gender relationships. Novak dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols, effects, and strategies. That dissection shows how the singing body acts within the world of opera, what interventions it makes, and how it constitutes opera’s meanings.

Author : Kate DeVore,Starr Cookman
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781569763063

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The Voice Book by Kate DeVore,Starr Cookman Pdf

Written to save careers one voice at a time through scientifically proven methods and advice, this resource teaches people how to protect and improve one of their most valuable assets: their speaking voice. Simple explanations of vocal anatomy and up-to-date instruction for vocal injury prevention are accompanied by illustrations, photographs, and FAQs. An audio CD of easy-to-follow vocal-strengthening exercises--including Hum and Chew, Puppy Dog Whimper, Sirens, Lip Trills, and Tongue Twisters--is also included, along with information on breathing basics, vocal-cord vibration, and working with students who have medical complications such as asthma, acid reflux, or anxiety.

Author : Theodore Dimon, Jr.
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781623177898

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Your Body, Your Voice by Theodore Dimon, Jr. Pdf

This comprehensive, illustrated guide to vocal training focuses on the body as a whole—refuting traditional methods and offering invaluable holistic replacements. “Mystery turned into purest common sense. Indispensable.” —Alan Rickman, actor In this innovative book, Theodore Dimon, EdD, shows how each part of the vocal organ (breathing, larynx, throat, and so on) works as part of a larger musculoskeletal system that is often interfered with, and how identifying this larger system and understanding in a practical way how it works allows a person to train and improve the voice, whether speaking or singing. Traditional vocal training methods, says Dimon, cannot be effective without restoring the functioning of the musculature that supports the voice. Enhanced with over 50 detailed full-color illustrations, the book discusses the fallacy of traditional breathing exercises and explains that the key to efficient breathing lies in the expansive support of the trunk and rib cage. Investigating the elements needed to produce a strong supported tone, Dimon describes the importance of voice “placement,” or directing the sound to a part of the body in order to produce a fully rounded, resonant tone. He identifies harmful patterns of speech and singing, and offers helpful methods for reestablishing the natural function of the vocal mechanism. Individual chapters cover elements of the whispered “ah,” producing a pure sung tone, vocal registers, the suspensory muscles of the larynx, and more.

Author : John Colapinto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781982128753

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This Is the Voice by John Colapinto Pdf

Introduction: Personally speaking -- Baby talk -- Origins -- Emotion -- Language -- Sex and gender -- The voice in society -- The voice of leadership & persuasion -- Swan song.

Author : Giuliano Campo,Zygmunt Molik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136972478

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Zygmunt Molik's Voice and Body Work by Giuliano Campo,Zygmunt Molik Pdf

One of the original members of Jerzy Grotowski’s acting company, Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work explores the unique development of voice and body exercises throughout his career in actor training. This book, constructed from conversations between Molik and author Giuliano Campo, provides a fascinating insight into the methodology of this practitioner and teacher, and focuses on his ‘Body Alphabet’ system for actors, allowing them to combine both voice and body in their preparatory process.

Author : Theodore Dimon Jr
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781623171988

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Anatomy of the Voice by Theodore Dimon Jr Pdf

The first comprehensive, fully-illustrated approach to the voice that explains the anatomy and mechanics in detailed yet down-to-earth terms, for voice users and professionals of all kinds This book is the first to explain, in clear and concise language, the anatomy and mechanics of the mysterious and complex bodily system we call the voice. Beautifully illustrated with more than 100 detailed images, Anatomy of the Voice guides voice teachers and students, vocal coaches, professional singers and actors, and anyone interested in the voice through the complex landscape of breathing, larynx, throat, face, and jaw. Theodore Dimon, an internationally recognized authority on the subject, as well as an expert in the Alexander Technique, makes unfamiliar terrain accessible and digestible by describing each vocal system in short, manageable sections and explaining complex terminology. The topics he covers include ribs, diaphragm, and muscles of breathing; the intrinsic musculature of the larynx, its structure and action; the suspensory muscles of the throat; the face and jaw; the tongue and palate; and the evolution and function of the larynx.

Author : S.J. Laidlaw
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781770495654

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The Voice inside My Head by S.J. Laidlaw Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Luke's older sister, Pat, has always been his moral compass, like a voice inside his head, every time he has a decision to make. So when Pat disappears on a tiny island off the coast of Honduras and the authorities claim she's drowned - despite the fact that they can't produce a body - Luke heads to Honduras to find her because he knows something the authorities don't. From the moment of her disappearance, Pat's voice has become real, guiding him to Utila, where she had accepted a summer internship to study whale sharks. Once there, he meets several characters who describe his sister as a very different girl from the one knows. Does someone have a motive for wanting her dead? Determined to get to the bottom of Pat's disappearance, Luke risks everything, including his own life, to find the answer.

Author : Melissa Malde,Kurt Alexander Zeller,MaryJean Allen
Publisher : Plural Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Performance anxiety
ISBN : 159756494X

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What Every Singer Needs to Know about the Body by Melissa Malde,Kurt Alexander Zeller,MaryJean Allen Pdf

Gives singers and their teachers a body mapping resource - from anatomy and physiology to body awareness - that helps them discover and correct misconceptions about the way their bodies are built and the way they function. In doing so, the book provides maps with detailed advice and exercises to use their bodies effectively.

Author : Miriama Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317054849

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Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology by Miriama Young Pdf

Singing the Body Electric explores the relationship between the human voice and technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which technological mediation affects our understanding of the voice, and more generally, the human body. From the phonautograph to magnetic tape and now to digital sampling, Miriama Young visits particular musical and literary works that define a century-and-a-half of recorded sound. She discusses the way in which the human voice is captured, transformed or synthesised through technology. This includes the sampled voice, the mechanical voice, the technologically modified voice, the pliable voice of the digital era, and the phenomenon by which humans mimic the sounding traits of the machine. The book draws from key electro-vocal works spanning a range of genres - from Luciano Berio's Thema: Omaggio a Joyce to Radiohead, from Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting in a Room, to Björk, and from Pierre Henry's Variations on a Door and a Sigh to Christian Marclay's Maria Callas. In essence, this book transcends time and musical style to reflect on the way in which the machine transforms our experience of the voice. The chapters are interpolated by conversations with five composers who work creatively with the voice and technology: Trevor Wishart, Katharine Norman, Paul Lansky, Eduardo Miranda and Bora Yoon. This book is an interdisciplinary enterprise that combines music aesthetics and musical analysis with literature and philosophy.

Author : Michael McCallion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135861988

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The Voice Book by Michael McCallion Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Amanda Weidman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520377066

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Brought to Life by the Voice by Amanda Weidman Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses as the visuals are filmed. Since the 1950s, playback singers have become revered celebrities in their own right. Brought to Life by the Voice explores the distinctive aesthetics and affective power generated by this division of labor between onscreen body and offscreen voice in South Indian Tamil cinema. In Amanda Weidman's historical and ethnographic account, playback is not just a cinematic technique, but a powerful and ubiquitous element of aural public culture that has shaped the complex dynamics of postcolonial gendered subjectivity, politicized ethnolinguistic identity, and neoliberal transformation in South India.

Author : Marina Gilman,Gilman
Publisher : Plural Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781597566612

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Body and Voice by Marina Gilman,Gilman Pdf

Author : Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781583946527

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In an Unspoken Voice by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. Pdf

Unraveling trauma in the body, brain and mind—a revolution in treatment. Now in 17 languages. In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche. In an Unspoken Voice is based on the idea that trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions. Enriched with a coherent theoretical framework and compelling case examples, the book elegantly blends the latest findings in biology, neuroscience and body-oriented psychotherapy to show that when we bring together animal instinct and reason, we can become more whole human beings.

Author : Jutta Ritschel
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781615196074

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The Little Book of Speaking Up: Find Your Voice in 5 Minutes a Day with 65 Whole-Body Exercises by Jutta Ritschel Pdf

What is your voice saying about you? Your unique voice—its volume, tone, and pitch—is the invisible key to a good first impression. But stress can cause your voice to falter—right when you need to speak up! Now, breath therapist and music teacher Jutta Ritschel offers 65 easy exercises to keep your voice always well-tuned—whether you’re rehearsing a speech or performance, or simply seeking your most confident self. Stretch like a cat: Free tense muscles, widen your rib cage, and breathe deeply. Read aloud: Practice expressing emotion! Befriend your voice: Hear the difference between how you sound to yourself and to others. Most important of all, you’ll learn to find comfort in silence—and hear your inner voice before you speak.