Emile

DailySing - 24 (2.24.2012)

February 25, 2012
I did it again! I closed my eyes and started to sing, and when I opened them it was 17 minutes later. I can't take credit for what I sang as I don't remember doing it. I must've gone away when I sang this. I remember it as I listen, but I don't remember doing it originally. Trippy!!!
I bonded over beers with the guys from work, then came home and sang. It was very late and I didn't want to miss it. I did it, but fell asleep immediately afterwards, and woke up at 2:23 AM to write this blog.
It seems that I really stayed with a particular thematic idea musically, and worked it to death. I was actually impressed, parttly because I had no memory of singing this and partly because this was really well done from a musical explorer's perspective. I'm not bored listening back on it.

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DailySing - 23 (2.23.2012)

February 24, 2012
A friend suggested various interpretations of Happy Birthday for today's DailySing. So, I started several birthday improvs which led to variations of the birthday song I never envisioned. As this is happening at the end of a long day, I am aware of my focus coming and going. Sometimes, I thought I fell asleep, other times, I forgot what I was doing and would vamp until I'd remember that I was doing some guerilla arranging on the fly and add in a happy birthday line or two. I also put the reco...
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DailySing - 22 (2.22.2012)

February 23, 2012
Wow...! 
Listening is a 7 layer cake that you slowly explore
Listening is a palpably varied and delicate tool
Listening moves me to tears, moves me to ecstacy
listening brings me back to myself
Listening makes me aware of the thick and heavy presence of mastery
Listening brings clarity and light to my inner landscape
Listening helps me guide my mojo (!)
Listening feeds my spirit
I did something different tonight in my singing. I sang a Victor Wooten song that I know, Heaven Is Where The Heart Is, and ...
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DailySing - 21 (2.21.2012)

February 22, 2012
Judgment... Difficult to operate without it. Discernment, judgment, acumen, acuity, astuteness... all necessary to live in the world, and yet used to excess can lead to the antithesis of life. I have so many judgment layers that I am only now "groking". I judge everything. Even when I am practicing I can't seem to suspend judgment. Tonight, I caught myself appraising what I was doing instead of just DOING what I was doing. I caught myself several times, and brought my mind back to neutral. Af...
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DailySing - 20 (2.20.2012)

February 21, 2012
As I listen to what I just sang, I have to admit to a certain amount of playfulness in what I do. At certain points in my listening, I broke out into a big smile, and once I even laughed out loud. Come to think of it, I laughed out loud and was grinning most of the time during the creation of tonight's improvisation. My listening was easier and deeper, though the ease seemed to belie the depth to a small degree. Rhythm is a huge part of what I do. In the future, I'll see if I can be lyrical w...
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DailySing - 19 (2.19.2012)

February 20, 2012
I'm not using my full listening abilities when I sing. I read what Will wrote about listening, and the depth of immersion required pushes the boundaries of my comfort zone. I like to bounce in, dazzle/play/jam, then exit... Wham Bam Thank Ya Ma'am, which is rather superficial... on many musical levels. I am good at this improv thing and that requires that I be a good listener. However, in order to achieve the results I want, and to exemplify the behavior and work ethic to those I work with, I...
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DailySing - 18 (2.18.2012)

February 19, 2012
As I listen to this playback, I am filled with utter joy and fascination at the power, beauty and depth of expression in the human voice. It's a good thing to revisit, like Miles' quote from DailySing-17, it reconnects us to the basic truths we take for granted and eventually forget. I remember singing this... and at the time, my moving forward was powered by solid emotion!
I was singing  my emotions, even when I turned the tones into words, I was operating from a primarily emotionally charged...
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DailySing - 17 (2.17.2012)

February 18, 2012
I did better tonight staying with a theme and coming back to it time and again. I want to explore the hands playing out a rhythm on my chest as I sing. It syncopates what I'm singing, breaking into separate tempi, sometimes at double time, then switching to half time speed. I keep the rhythm I started playing in my core and even when it can no longer be heard, it is still implied, even as I sing parts with different tempi, while holding longer notes. I sing in French again, this time because ...
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DailySing - 16 (2.16.2012)

February 17, 2012
I finally did it! I fell asleep whilst singing. I did a good job of floating on the ethereal musical whims of my muse, and jumping in with what I thought of as courage as I leapt from one musical idea to the next, keeping my mind wide open. I realized while listening to what I did that at some of these junctures or focii of change, I am actually falling asleep and singing out loud whatever stream of dream is coming through me at that time. I actually fall asleep for many seconds of agonizing ...
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DailySing - 15 (2.15.2012)

February 16, 2012
I tried something different this time. First of all it's only 10 pm, and I've already finished singing. Secondly, I took all pressure off of myself to create an experience for a potential listener, and just monitored where I found myself occasionally, throughout this little sing. I did bounce around from genre to genre and idea to idea. I didn't try to make one melodic idea turn into another, cleanly, and with great musicality. No, instead, as soon a a new path showed itself, I decided in the...
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If you can talk, you can sing


Emile Hassan Dyer I believe that singing is our birthright, and that it is good for our brains, bodies, and spirit. Singing releases oxytocin in the brain, and many studies have shown a correlation of oxytocin with human bonding, increases in trust, feelings of calmness and security, as well as reductions in anxiety. In other words, SINGING IS GOOD FOR YOU! I get high making up music on the spot. I get high(er) when I can do it with several people at once. There's nothing like riding the crest of a creative wave, linked harmonically and rhythmically, supporting, leading, following, creating, coaxing, cajoling, p-l-a-y-i-n-g... THAT'S MY BLISS! Singing for 15 minutes a day means trusting yourself. It means clearing your mind, opening up and discovering what sounds can come out through you, if you allow it. To listen to each of my daily sings, click on the "songs" link on the left in the grey field above the most recent post or on the link at the end of each post.

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My DailySing practice is inspired by Will Hewett's Sing15 practice.

You can learn more about Sing15 at www.willhewett.com.

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