reasons to science- a small distraction from the news.

[mopinko]

so, i've been thinking about this post for a couple days. it seems like a dumb time to post it, but hey, look over here for a minute.

i've made a few posts here about taking voice lessons in my 60's. i highly recommend it. it's good for the body and the soul.
one of the most surprising things to me has been how much my science background has helped.
knowing your anatomy helps, which i know about through both art and science.

but there's sooooo much physics here. it's one thing to think of your lungs as resonators. it's another to be able to see it's shape, and the shape of that wave. to know that your chest voice is a big round shape, and your head voice is a small round shape, and the place where they overlap is an hourglass.
to be able to just sense where the sound is coming from is gold. it lets you place it exactly where you need it.
i still have a few more high notes to find, but i'm starting to get control of that crossover. the trick to that is opening up your throat and flattening out that shape, making it more like spock's coffin than an hour glass.
understanding the opposing forces at work is helping me control them. making them symmetrical, or not, is where the color is in all this.

and off i go into a whole other field.

i've had many, many reasons to be grateful for the science i started learning when i was knee high. this is the best so far.

[Martin68]

1. Mopinko, same here. Every time I take a walk in the woods science informs me and illuminates the

beauty of the interconnection between all things.