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Freeing the Natural Voice
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This book will be useful for professional actors, student actors, teachers of acting, teachers of voice and speech and the interested lay person. Its aims are to present a lucid view of the voice in the general context of human communication and to provide a series of exercises to free, develop and strengthen the voice - first as a human instrument, then as the human actor's instrument. The approach is designed to liberate the natural voice rather than to develop a vocal technique.
The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of experessing, through two-to-four octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood and sublety of thought he or she experiences.
The second assumption is that the tensions acquired through living in this world, as well as defenses, inhibitions and negative reactions to environmental influences, often diminish the efficiency of the natural voice to the point of distorted communication.
Hence, the emphasis is on the removal of the blocks that inhibit the human instrument as distinct from the development of a skilled musical instrument. the object is a voice in direct contact with emotional impulse, shaped by the intellect but not inhibited by it.
This book will be useful for professional actors, student actors, teachers of acting, teachers of voice and speech and the interested lay person. Its aims are to present a lucid view of the voice in the general context of human communication and to provide a series of exercises to free, develop and strengthen the voice - first as a human instrument, then as the human actor's instrument. The approach is designed to liberate the natural voice rather than to develop a vocal technique.
The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of experessing, through two-to-four octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood and sublety of thought he or she experiences.
The second assumption is that the tensions acquired through living in this world, as well as defenses, inhibitions and negative reactions to environmental influences, often diminish the efficiency of the natural voice to the point of distorted communication.
Hence, the emphasis is on the removal of the blocks that inhibit the human instrument as distinct from the development of a skilled musical instrument. the object is a voice in direct contact with emotional impulse, shaped by the intellect but not inhibited by it.
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