He's Only an Animal

Today we did extensive work with the Cat and voice. We used the cat as a means to produce different sounds. For example, rotating the torso down would produce a different sound than going up. Pushing forward would have a different vibration than pushing back.

The next step was to get in the box position (with your hands and knees on the ground). We explored the sound and vibrations we could make in this position and we rested on one sound; moo.

Yes, that is correct. We spent the rest of the class on all fours mooing at each other. First we just mooed. Then we mooed with another person. We were to put our heads together and feel their vibration. I was with Diane. We didn’t so much feel the vibration, well, we did, but we didn’t concentrate on it. Rather we focused on what our voices were doing. We would both go and it would be a little rough but with slight adjustments, we reached this sound. I can’t even describe it. It was like our voices just found each other and became one. The way I see it, my voice was going down and Diane’s was intersecting it from an angle. It was just amazing. The sounds our voices can make. I mean, singers would probably be in shock as well as awe. Shock because they would probably assume we were wrecking our voices, and awe because of the sounds and projection we created. Intense.