The Open Throat: Deceptive Sounds, Facts of Firstness, and the Interactional Emergence of Voice | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core

“Technique” then becomes a closed-circuit system of awareness, memory, and control over interior semiosis. So emotionally transformative is this process that sometimes singers say things like, “Learning to sing is like psychotherapy, except that it works.” It “works” in the sense that the vivisection of the interior allows for awareness of and cont... See more

One of the great challenges of singers-in-training is to learn to identify and correctly discern the related proprioceptive signals that can tell them—without listening—that they probably are producing good sounds.

In the process of learning to sing, tropes of nature and science combine to frame ideologies of the body that code certain feelings as correct or incorrect