Workshop for Teachers: Listening and Voice Training ProcessesThis experimental workshop for small groups is aimed at helping beginner and/or established singing teachers to hone their listening skills and use their powers of hearing to the best effect. For example, to discover more precisely what they are listening for, to better recognise sounds for what they are, and to learn how to use sounds as and when they hear them in a physiologically progressive way.
Aural analysis enables the voice trainer to be objective and precise in a field that tends to be neither.
The singing voice is at one and the same time a universal phenomenon and a whole new sound world in each human throat. Our hearing is the diagnostic tool par excellence when it comes to exploring, understanding and regenerating this voice. And where the two meet is a truly exciting place to be and to work.
Listening and Voice Training Processes will be given at the International Summer School, Dartington between July 30 and August 6, 2011.
www.dartington.org/summer-schoolComments from Singing Teachers
a most interesting approach to freeing the voice and the body
inspiring and liberating in its honesty
opened the mind to new methods and concepts
I have learnt how to listen with 'new ears' - to dissect what I'm hearing and analyze more easily
it made me focus on listening to the core sound
made me aware how close any interval is to the voice
made me aware of the voice 'leading' or initiating the efficient flow of breath ...
I realised the individuality of each voice ...
incredibly helpfull in many ways. A completely different way into singing
I'm taking away more open and educated ears
very much about getting the priorities right
enjoyable...extremely edifying and clarifying
easy to follow
many Ah-ha! moments
came away with a much deeper comprehension of the subject
I learnt to question what I hear, but also to trust in my first response - the real 'knowing'...improving the balance between knowing stuff...and hearing freshly