Books
"Sing from Your Core" by Jole Berlage-Buccellati
My book "Sing from Your Core. The Vocal Body" was published by Schott Verlag, Mainz in July 2020.
It addresses all kinds of singers, from professional to amateurs.
Based on my long experience with Singing, Coaching/Therapy and Body Work and it reflects my approach
to the art of singing and vocal coaching.
In writing the book I wanted wanted to give voice students the possibility to find, experience and trust their vocal body through an easy to use work-book. All exercises can be done on your own, with a trusted friend or a vocal coach that is willing to experiment with you. All exercises are meant to simplify your approach to singing and performing, by reintroducing the wisdom of your body and your joy into the process.
Anxiety in performance is extensively covered.
You can read the first 20 pages and the table of content for free in various online shops.
"Der gespürte Ton" by Matthias Veit
How do I hold a song or piece in my hands? How small can a tone feel? How far beyond my bare body do I experience the vocal breath? What is the perceptible body between narrowing and widening, contraction and expansion? How to understand feelings as extended dynamic spaces and atmospheres? And what are suggestive movements and synaesthetic characters?
This book not only introduces the fascinating body phenomenology of Hermann Schmitz (whom Peter Sloterdjik considered being the most important German philosopher of the present), which revolutionized our physiological world view from the ground up, but also deals intensively with practical and technical aspects of music making, especially for singers and pianists. The New Phenomenology has already proven to be extremely fruitful for numerous areas of life and work. A development for the musical area is long overdue.
The pianist and renowned song accompanist Matthias Veit draws on his extensive pianistic and vocal experience, and last but not least the work also benefits from his many years of university work and collaboration with world-famous colleagues and singers. A special role is played by Tom Krause with his original practice theory on focus and breath-space, from which an understanding of an effective technique on a phenomenological basis is developed. A special reference also leads to the likewise fundamental work of Jürgen Uhde on musical mimesis and musical shapes and characters. It is the first comprehensive analysis of what we feel when we make music.
