With these criteria as a premise, effectiveness of and satisfaction from my own perception of singing has evolved considerably. Singing is often considered something done by one or more persons for communication with and appreciation of others. And yet, the basic inborn response of sustained sound emission in singing fulfills a need to communicate with our Self long before taking on the guise of performance for others. Innate human BodyMind emotional expression responds and reacts to the surrounding environment. Except for birth defects, we all begin with the ability to audibly express emotion.
Most animals use sound to express emotion.
The primal utterance of a newborn child is emotional resonance in response to the drastic change in immediate environment. This energy release may be observed throughout early maturation as the infant becomes more aware of the surrounding environment and emotionally responds to stimulation. Neonatal and postnatal experience is almost always an oral investigation coupled with vocal sound in response to mouth contact. Except for crying voice is at first limited to various isolated emissions. Sustained vocal experimentation begins about the same time the infant branches out from the primal means of identification, the oral probe.