Improvising in Sound and Life

Sound vibrations surround us continously and can affect our thoughts, feelings and how we experience the world. Stop for just a moment and listen to the sounds around you. Notice their affect...are the calming, neutral or irritating?
For millenia rhythm, melody, and harmony have as natural as breathing and talking. For centuries the world over we have created music around our work, celebrations, and ritual. Our songs can moderate our passions or shatter the energy around us. They can reduce stress, provide comfort, create joy and wonder. They balance us and brings us into harmony with our surroundings.
Improvised sound is a dance with the unknown. It calls to all of our senses using body-based impulses, providing a perfect container into which obscure thoughts and feelings can be externalized and transformed through a symbolic language. We dive in with complete surrender and reclaim the hidden heart, the voice of the self, the innocence and imagination of a child who had no qualms about creating reality. I marvel constantly at the weaving of childrens’ improvised tales of mermaids, princesses and dancing bears.
As a natural element, improvised sound allows us the freedom to call out with rapture, grief, terror and bliss without engaging the thinking mind. It offers us a safe space to approach the unknown with curiosity and teaches us to trust that the path will be revealed.
It is about listening and exploring the dynamics of our inner music, putting us in the pregnant moment of the now, and resonating with the life that surrounds us bringing us into harmony. We surrender to the music that is genetically encoded in our bones.
As the oldest instrument in the world, the human voice is extrememly powerful and sensitive because it will resonate with the intention put into it. A word spoken in anger or in love can change our entire lives in an instant. The human voice has overtones, textures, colours, dynamics, and emotions creating an artistic collage of meaning and effect. The sound of our voice reflects our personality and our very soul. It is versatile and alive. It is breath and life.

Benefits of Vocal Improvisation
The more you can express yourself through musical improvisation, the more the self comes alive and contributes to your well-being and wholeness. Learning to improvise vocally will reverberate into other areas of your life, in how you listen, blend, stand out, find your groove or surrender to yourself.
Singing is one of our most creative acts.
It links us to our underlying substance and being because it involves the use of our whole self.

The singing voice is the breathe of life touching the heart of the listener.
~ Sonic Blissings, Anny

© 2006 Anny Fyreagle