The vocal performance in laryngeal positions

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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2023.41468

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Vocal performance, Laryngeal position, Singing, Popular music, Experience

Abstract

The understanding of sung vocal performance is usually oriented to the study of anatomical-physiological aspects based on analysis with specific instruments and software. However, the experiential dimension of whoever produces a vocal sound and, above all, the corporeality involved in the construction of such a performance, are usually relegated to the background. In this work, we analyze the performative implications of the laryngeal movement in the deep and intermediate positions from the first-person experience of four developing singers. We consider that laryngeal positions have a corporeal-sonorous correlate of great impact on sung performance, which goes beyond the anatomical-physiological dimension and may be relevant in vocal development and the approach to popular music in the pedagogical field.

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Daniel Machuca Telléz, Laboratory for the Study of Musical Experience (LEEM), Faculty of Arts, National University of La Plata

Graduate and Professor in music with orientation in Musical Education of the Faculty of Arts of the National University of La Plata (UNLP). Teacher attached to the Audioperceptive I and II chair of the Faculty of Arts. Thesis student of the Specialization in Artistic Languages; Doctorate in Arts from the FDA-UNLP and research fellow at the UNLP. From 2015 to 2017 he participated as an assistant in the Vocal Education chair of the same faculty. She carries out research tasks on the performance of the singing voice in the Laboratory for the study of musical experience. He was part of the project PPID/B010 – "Improvisation and orality in popular music. Towards a definition of the embodied, phenomenological and grammatical aspects of performance as an ontology of action." And, he is currently a member of the PPID/B017 project – “Current practices of musical orality: performance, interaction, and technological mediation as spaces for the construction of musical meaning.” both directed by Dr. Joaquín Blas Pérez. She has dedicated herself to studying the development and production of the singing voice in popular music, sung performance and its approach in the pedagogical field. Composes and produces music under the pseudonym Dan Malléz.

Joaquín Blas Pérez, Laboratory for the Study of Musical Experience (LEEM), Faculty of Arts, National University of La Plata

Musician, Saxophonist and Improviser Flutist, Researcher at the Laboratory for the Study of Musical Experience. Doctor of Arts at the National University of La Plata and Professor of Music (orient. Composition). Assistant Professor in Audioperceptive I and II at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UNLP). Professor of Latin American Music at the Berisso School of Art. Member of the Advisory Council of the Laboratory for the Study of Musical Experience (UNLP). He is a researcher in the research project accredited by the UNLP “The corporeity of the musical mind. Towards a definition of his stature in the study of the ontogenesis, perception and performance of music”. He is part of the project: "Communicative Musicality in Temporary Arts and Early Childhood". PICT 2013-0368 (National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology). His interests are mainly linked to improvisation in jazz and Latin American popular music, musical cognition, musical performance. founding president of Cuchá! Musicians from Platenses Producing, musician producer, arranger and session player in various musical projects related to Latin American popular music and jazz.

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2023-03-23

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Machuca Telléz, Daniel, and Joaquín Blas Pérez. 2023. “The Vocal Performance in Laryngeal Positions”. Per Musi 24 (March):1-25. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2023.41468.

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