Vocal Recipes for All Styles and Personalities
Singing lessons, Coaching, Vocal rehabilitation support, Music entertainment...
An innovative approach!
La Cuisine vocale is a fun laboratory of experimentation, discovery, and vocal and musical creations! It is based on simple, effective, and concrete tools, based on a thorough knowledge of voice mechanisms, the human body, and music theory, and is inspired by vocal techniques of somatic approach (body awareness) such as the Estill vocal system, Gylliane Kayes' Vocal Process, Catherine Sadolin's TCV, Seth Riggs' SLS …
How does it work ?
We learn how to dissociate the ingredients of a healthy phonation in order to choose our mix of flavors, colors, the vocal recipes we are going to apply to our timber in harmony with our physiology, and our chosen repertoire whether it is speech or singing.
We also explore the more theoretical aspects of music: how to learn a melody by ear with or without a backing track or instrument, how to understand a harmonic progression, how to anchor our inner rhythm, how to physically understand a pulse, and metric structure, how to work on dynamics, to work on diction in French, in English, in Creole, or to improvise freely or with the jazz vocabulary (Scat), etc...
What will I gain?
The exploration of ones' voice is a personal development path where you will feel the joys of discovering serendipity*, developing your abilities to move forward with the right intention, and gain self-confidence in your ability to communicate your emotions with resonance and benevolence.
Moreover, singing is a sport in itself since this action requires the coordination of more than 300 muscles. This activity done in a healthy way induces immediate well-being by boosting our endorphins and dopamines production, our happiness hormones!
*Serendipity is the act of making fortunate discoveries by chance.
Who will guide you in La Cuisine Vocale ?
Cynthia Saint-Ville will be your teacher and vocal coach. Her rich artistic experience in the fields of Jazz, Opera, Gospel, Musical Theater, and Contemporary Music (Mainstream, Soul, Rock, Chanson, Folk, Electro, World Music…) will be put at your service in your different repertoires, in any cultural contexts or musical styles by analyzing the recipes used in a particular piece even if it's heavy metal or pygmy yodel!
Who is she talking to ?
La Cuisine vocale welcomes everybody, in French, English, Creole sprinkled with a little bit of Italian, German, Spanish, or Korean) whatever your level may be; whether you are a Beginner, Advanced singer, Actor, Musician, Public Speaker; whether your Voice is an essential tool of your professional life, or whether you simply want to improve your vocal comfort.
This kinaesthetic, synaesthetic, playful and rigorous approach provides you with all the essential elements for a healthy, powerful and efficient voice: it is a question of finding, together, the vocal and/or musical recipes best suited to your identity, your physiology, your pace, and your projects.
