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I love the Internet
Mar. 10th, 2012 09:39 pmThe Internet has been very generous with me lately. Also I'm feeling proud of my ability to keep digging and thinking up new search terms until I find what I'm looking for. Here's what I've been digging for the last few days.
I decided I want to learn the Georgian alphabet with all its pretty curlicues, so I downloaded the same free program I used to learn Bulgarian Cyrillic, "Before You Know It" byki.com. Ta da, I have an effective little program to play with. When it was unclear which letter sounds like what, I found a transliteration table.
Here is a Georgian website to see more of the Georgian writing. I've found a lot of Georgian songs I was looking for there. Click on the British flag at the top right to use the site in English.
As a side note, I feel a quirky little sadness that those curlicues will forever be divided into recognizable, decode-able letters rather than forming a decorative design I take in as a whole. I'm starting to consciously appreciate not-knowing rather than (er, in addition to) being frustrated by it.
Speaking of which, "Discovering Vocal Freedom Through Present-moment Awareness" by Linda Brice has a lot of ideas about singing I find useful, including the idea of "productive frustration" just before a breakthrough occurs. I've noticed that with learning a dance - I get worse at doing it just before (while) I internalize it.
Here is Joseph Jordania's book "Who Asked the First Question (PDF)", subtitled "The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech" which describes his theories about early proto-humans, polyphonic singing, and the development of language. Very pleased with finding that, since I didn't remember the author's name at all.
I found something saying the workshop teacher uses Alexander Technique, looked it up, and found a useful self-help article about that. I read a bunch of the articles on that site. I feel hopeful that I can apply some of those techniques to my singing rather than waiting for a teacher who lives in France to run another workshop somewhere nearby.
Thank you, Internet, and all the generous people who post information to it!
I decided I want to learn the Georgian alphabet with all its pretty curlicues, so I downloaded the same free program I used to learn Bulgarian Cyrillic, "Before You Know It" byki.com. Ta da, I have an effective little program to play with. When it was unclear which letter sounds like what, I found a transliteration table.
Here is a Georgian website to see more of the Georgian writing. I've found a lot of Georgian songs I was looking for there. Click on the British flag at the top right to use the site in English.
As a side note, I feel a quirky little sadness that those curlicues will forever be divided into recognizable, decode-able letters rather than forming a decorative design I take in as a whole. I'm starting to consciously appreciate not-knowing rather than (er, in addition to) being frustrated by it.
Speaking of which, "Discovering Vocal Freedom Through Present-moment Awareness" by Linda Brice has a lot of ideas about singing I find useful, including the idea of "productive frustration" just before a breakthrough occurs. I've noticed that with learning a dance - I get worse at doing it just before (while) I internalize it.
Here is Joseph Jordania's book "Who Asked the First Question (PDF)", subtitled "The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech" which describes his theories about early proto-humans, polyphonic singing, and the development of language. Very pleased with finding that, since I didn't remember the author's name at all.
I found something saying the workshop teacher uses Alexander Technique, looked it up, and found a useful self-help article about that. I read a bunch of the articles on that site. I feel hopeful that I can apply some of those techniques to my singing rather than waiting for a teacher who lives in France to run another workshop somewhere nearby.
Thank you, Internet, and all the generous people who post information to it!
