Chris Peterkin Lindsay Reading-Korth Oral Interp. 9/16/15

Touching Sound

For me a lot of the things that we did in class I found I wasn’t getting any kind of reac-

tion. I am constantly worried about what I think I should be feeling rather than what I am actually

feeling. I constantly felt that I was forcing myself to produce the sighs and other noises that are

coming out of me. I wasn’t really reacting differently to the ideas of things, and though it is a

cliché I kind of felt like Diana Morales. I was feeling nothing, but felt like everyone else was feel-

ing everything. I felt like I hard to force the sound out because I wasn’t feeling the vibrations,

each sigh felt the same and I was starting to get frustrated.

Then something inside of me clicked. I realized that when I put my hand on the places I

wanted to resonate (forehead, nose, chest, etc.) I could feel all of the vibrations. Then I thought

about it, when I started to learn how to sing I used a lot of the “think” technique. I imagined that

the vibrations had to reach these specific places and through some training I was able to

achieve this. That being said, it was kind of an eye-opening experience. I realized that because I

had been trained to just imagine that the vibrations would reach these places I could now natu-

rally do it without any thought or effort. I also realized that though I can feel some of these vibra-

tions when talking or singing, I can not feel all of the vibrations all of the time. Of course when I

put my hand on these areas I could feel it but because it wasn't something that I necessarily had

to think about all of the time these vibrations just naturally happen.

Though I didn’t necessarily learn to much about making sounds without forcing them be-

cause I was so concerned with the vibrations I did make a good realization about my body and

my instrument. I have the ability to get good resonance, I just have to work on making the sound

natural. I am so used to trying to project for stage, and don’t really think too much how the char-

acter would talk or even the volume they would talk with.