The Estill Voice Model©: Research behind Jo Estill’s paradigm shift in voice training and treatment
Tuesday 17th September 2024, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (London Time)
For over 40 years, the Estill Voice Model (EVM) has defined voice quality according to the physiologic adjustments that correlate to acoustic and auditory-perceptual correlates. In other words, movement of the vocal anatomy that you can FEEL produces a characteristic acoustic soundwave and spectral shape that you can SEE that results in a unique voice timbre or quality that you can HEAR. EVM addresses the daunting degrees of freedom issue in voice motor control by isolating the Craft of voice production from the Artistry and Performance Metaphysics. The EVM proposes an integrated implicit-explicit approach for voice motor learning that flows through all training and therapy protocols. Implicit instructions include auditory-perceptual prompts (e.g., quack like a duck to produce “twang”) and explicit prompts train physiologic conditions of the vocal anatomy correlated with the voice quality (e.g., narrow your aryepiglottic sphincter to produce “twang”). Estill Voice Training® exercises informed by the EVM address power, source and filter properties of voice production, and include: narrowing the aryepiglottic sphincter for “ring” in opera & belt and for increased power in hypofunctional voices; and varying vocal fold mass for register shifts and optimizing contact for hyperfunctional voices. Speakers, singers, and voice patients learn to feel, see, and hear the voice via multiple feedback modes including hand gestures, magnitude estimation of bodily-kinesthetic effort, visual acoustic cues in the real-time spectral analysis program, Estill Voiceprint™. This presentation will highlight scientific research and clinical evidence for using Estill Voice Training® exercises to train and treat all voices, from the novice speaker to the expert performer. Learn about the evidence supporting a new way to Feel, See, and Hear the Voice.
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Kim Steinhauer
Kimberly Steinhauer, Ph.D.,has devoted her entire career to the voice—in song, education, and research. As a singer, she has been employed in a variety of musical venues ranging from pop, musical theater, and opera to sacred music.
Attend this course for as little as £22 as part of the Voice Professional Training CPD Award Scheme.
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