Beyond the Perception-Centric View of Voice Control in its Musculoskeletal System Contributions. For a Biomechanical Integration of the Voice Model
From "Perceptions Lie" of F. Alexander to "If you are right sensations and feelings will guide you. If you are wrong, reason will guide you." of G.B. Lamperti in voice perceptions have been a great and confusing topic, difficult to navigate in the practical aspects of training, development and treatment. Contemporary science is defining in all the different fields what perceptions are, and the topic is vast and relevant in all the voice fields also. From a voice function point of view, being the voice a multianatomical system first is to define and separate to what system we are relating, and my contribution is on the general musculoskeletal and kinesiological relations to voice quality and voice production. Perceptions as to the motor control of the musculoskeletal system have interesting specifics and behaviours. Contemporary biomechanics findings bridged to athlete training functional practices – both for athlete development and rehab- plus the more advanced findings on fascia and the nuancing of isometric concept into its effective realistic contributions to the hold – as I did at last PEVoC15 in my oral presentation in Basic science- point all into a not perceptioncentric system when it comes to motor control brain functioning and regulation of the movement itself. Both training and rehab fields plus the fascial studies are moving from an idea of a neurological perception/control of motor functions versus a more mechanical one. Yet we see an overwhelming quantity of perceptions as to the two quotes above. Bridging again – all the above- with the knowledge on uncontrolled movements , the knees over toe guy practice and plyometrics used in rehab interventions we see a context dependent type of perceptions. In here I would make the nuance between a dysfunctional musculoskeletal system not providing its minimum requirements for physiologic voice production, a dysfunctional musculoskeletal system with the minimum requirements for physiologic voice production met, an untrained/disuse musculoskeletal system, in the training phase in the direction of functionality and a functional well developed/trained system: how we can generally find the perceptions as to motor control in those different contexts. Changing paradigm or just nuancing it better into how relevant systems for voice production transmit information and if in a perceptive for the subject way or not perceived way make a great difference for artistic practices and therapeutic ones. Some of those advantages are yet in my practice since more than 10 years, and point to a field worth exploring. _