Poetry
Singing technique is partly about the length of the out-breath. When we focus on singing ‘to the end of the line’ the voice functions naturally and the in-breath becomes a reflex. If we’re singing indoors, the building reverberates for us. We can even sense our breath and the sound-waves travelling to the walls and bouncing back. When we sing outside we miss this acoustic feedback; and solo al fresco singing can feel particularly strange! But when we imagine our song meeting the lie of the land… the length of our out-breath increases and singing becomes reciprocal again.
Orison is an old word for a prayer. Read it here.
