"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better". (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
As I have mentioned a few times already in this blog; singing is a new thing everyday. As you get better the level of consistency gets better, but really just like you body feels slightly different every day, so does your voice. I didn't use to think that it was a gift - more like a curse in fact, but now that I teach and thus am "forced" to sing and make others do it for hours on end, it has become an absolute blessing.
Teaching in it self is one long experiment. My students teach me something new about the voice and how individually we perceive it, almost every day! The constant experiment means that I am never bored, always challenged and hopefully my students are too in our common search for greater mastery of our common, yet individual instrument. We all have one - a voice - and more or less we all use it, but we are all utterly unique in doing so. The voice is like a fingerprint that you can fiddle with, but somehow it still remains totally and completely, singularly yours. No one can ever steal or have your instrument ever! But it can be destroyed...something I have experienced first hand, and on some of the clients that I work with that have damaged voices - it's another matter all together. Building your voice back, finding it again, is like looking for your souls fingerprint in a sense, and can needless to say, be a difficult endeavor, but I believe never an impossible one. As a matter of fact I am the singing example of how a voice can be rebuild, rediscovered and re-found:-)
The voice has an outstanding ability to make us feel special and unique and yet somehow still connected to the whole - that is what I spend my life experimenting with and that my friends is pure unadulterated fun!
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