VocalScope Host: Juliette Caton

Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.

Susan Lowell de Solórzano first stumbled onto biotensegrity in 2008 while trying to deepen her understanding of the practice and classic writings of T’ai Chi Ch’uan; she has been a student of biotensegrity ever since. Susan began working directly with Steve Levin in 2009, and co-founded the Stephen M. Levin Biotensegrity Archive with Steve and his wife, Olga Cox-Levin, in 2015. Her book, Everything Moves: How biotensegrity informs human movement was published by Handspring Publishing in 2020. Susan is showrunner/ co-producer/ co-host of the BiotensegriTea Parties, author of the Biotensegrity Archive’s BX101 Guide, and producer of the Colloquy on Biotensegrity & Equine Health.

Susan is an ATCQA Level III certified T’ai Chi and Qi Gong teacher, and holds an MA in human development and education specializing in kinesthetic learning.



weblinks:

biotensegrityarchive.org

TheSoftAnswer.com

twitter: @1biotensegrity

Watch Susan discuss biotensegrity

https://youtu.be/X7SysZpSS6k?si=4nJrwicU6pQWJVSZ

Listen to Ida Rolfe as referred to by Susan in our interview

https://www.rolf.org/ida_teaches.php

VOICE CHOICE - Listen to Susan’s favourite vocal performance on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0%E2%81%A0⁠

Join the ⁠VOCALSCOPE BOOK CLUB⁠

Train your voice with JULIETTE CATON in the ⁠VOCALSCOPE VOICE STUDIO⁠

Follow Vocalscope on socials @‌vocalscope & @‌vocalscopevoice

Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.



Tina is the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support technique and performance for musicians. In 2013 she founded the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI) where she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from orchestras, chamber music groups, students and soloists.


Tina has taught Timani workshops at amongst other Juilliard in New York, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, The Music Academy in Basel, Royal College of Music in London, The Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen and for orchestras such as Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra.


Her background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal Trainer, Kinetic Control Movement Therapist, twice a certified yoga teacher and through Kinaesthesia for pianists from the University of Arts in Berlin.


Tina has presented at many performing arts medicine conferences and symposiums, amongst other at PAMA in Hollywood, ISPS in Melbourne and MHPC in Helsinki.
As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia amongst other. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received several grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists’ working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists.



MAIN WEBSITE
https://www.timani.no/

MEMBERSHIP
https://www.timanicommunity.com/

BOOK
https://giamusic.com/store/resource/unleashing-the-potential-of-the-musicians-body-book-10856

3-YEAR CERTIFICATION COURSE
https://www.timanicertificationcourse.com/

PERSONAL WEBSITE AND BLOG
https://www.tinanilssen.no/

PUBLISHED RESEARCH ARTICLE
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.834012/full



VOICE CHOICE - Listen to Tina’s favourite vocal performance ‘Ice Bin Der Velt Abhanden Gekommen' by Jessie Norman on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0%E2%81%A0⁠



Watch that Jessie Norman performance here: https://youtu.be/bxh-VTqNK0c?si=AfN5PNCwI7ZRkdbR



Join the ⁠⁠VOCALSCOPE BOOK CLUB⁠⁠



Train your voice with JULIETTE CATON in the ⁠⁠VOCALSCOPE VOICE STUDIO⁠⁠



Follow Vocalscope on socials @‌vocalscope & @‌vocalscopevoice

Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.



"Xenia's approach to this subject is a breath of fresh air. Broadly rooted in calming down our physiological responses, she opens up important areas of exploration with a light touch and keen insight."

- Steven Osborne, concert pianist



Dr Xenia Pestova Bennett is an internationally active concert pianist and composer. She combines her research and experience in performance anxiety with extensive accredited training as a yoga, breathwork and meditation instructor. Having studied in the UK, The Netherlands and Canada, Xenia holds a Doctorate in Performance from McGill University. Her wellness training includes Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, Yin/Yang Yoga and Mindfulness with Sarah Powers, Oxygen Advantage® functional breathing and Buteyko Method instructor training with Patrick McKeown, and Yoga Mindset Coaching training with Karina Ayn Mirsky. Xenia is in demand as lecturer and coach on wellbeing and anxiety management for organisations including the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine, Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland), Facebook, Moving on Music, Sound and Music, Triyoga UK, and tertiary educational institutions around the world. In 2022 and 2023, she presented 66 workshops in schools across Ireland reaching 580 participants in an ambitious "Befriending Anxiety" programme with The Music Network.



VOICE CHOICE Listen to Xenia’s favourite vocal performance ‘How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall?' by Sparks on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0%E2%81%A0



Attend Xenia's Befriending Performance Anxiety Course using our listeners 20% discount code: VOCALSCOPE20

https://xeniapestovabennett.com/perform



Join the ⁠VOCALSCOPE BOOK CLUB⁠



Train your voice with JULIETTE CATON in the ⁠VOCALSCOPE VOICE STUDIO⁠

Follow Vocalscope on socials @‌vocalscope & @‌vocalscopevoice

Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.



Nina Sun Eidsheim (she/her) is Professor of Musicology, at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. She is also a vocalist and the founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab, an experimental research Lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis, in and through multisensory creative practices. 



She writes about voice, race, and materiality, including the books Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. Publications include The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Duke University Press, 2019); Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Duke University Press, 2015); Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies (co-editor, OUP, 2019); and she is co-editor of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press.



Her work has been recognized in many ways, including by the Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Cornell University Society of the Humanities Fellowship, the UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship and the ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship. She received her bachelor of music from the voice program at the Agder Conservatory (Norway); MFA in vocal performance from the California Institute of the Arts; and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, San Diego. 

VOICE CHOICE Listen to Nina’s favourite vocal performance ‘This Love Of Mine' by Jimmy Scott on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0⁠



The Race of Sound is part of an open source program and free here, if you’re interested:
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sn4k8dr

If you want to purchase the paper back copy with a 30% discount code (no expiration date) for both Sensing Sound and The Race of Sound: E24EIDSH
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-race-of-sound⁠

https://www.dukeupress.edu/sensing-sound



Follow Nina:

@ninaeidsheim (Instagram)
@peerlabucla (Instagram)



Join the ⁠VOCALSCOPE BOOK CLUB⁠

Train your voice with JULIETTE CATON in the ⁠VOCALSCOPE VOICE STUDIO⁠

Follow Vocalscope: @‌vocalscope & @‌vocalscopevoice

www.vocalscopevoice.com

Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.



Can music make you sick? Is being a music artist detrimental to a musician's wellbeing and mental health? What are the impacts of saturation caused by the digital age on the music maker and the consumer? How can the music industry be totally transformed into a better music making and consuming world for us all?



Sally Anne Gross is both a music industry practitioner and an academic who in 1993 was the first women to work as an A&R manager at Mercury Records and in the same year she chaired the first ever panel on women in the music industries at ‘In The City’ music conference in Manchester.



She was also a founder member of Out on Vinyl the first ever UK record label for the LGBTQ community. Sally Anne has been working in the music industry for three decades as an artist manager, record label director and international business affairs consultant. 



In her current role at the University of Westminster, she is the program director of the MA in Music Business Management where she teaches Intellectual Property and Copyright Management, Artist & Repertoire and Music Development. 



In 2016 she founded ‘Let’s Change the Record’ a project that focuses on bridging the gender divide in music production by running inclusive audio engineering and song writing workshops for people identifying as women or non-binary.



Sally Anne is interested in working practices in the music industries and the conditions of digital labour and specifically how they impact on questions of diversity, equality and mental health. 



VOICE CHOICE Listen to Sally’s favourite vocal performance ‘Nothing Compares To You' by Sinead O'Connor on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0



Sally Anne Gross' website www.sallyannegross.com



Can Music Make You Sick?



Join the VOCALSCOPE BOOK CLUB



Train your voice with JULIETTE CATON in the VOCALSCOPE VOICE STUDIO



Follow Vocalscope on socials @vocalscope & @vocalscopevoice

Presented by Juliette Caton / Edited by Sam Benoiton

Matthew Mills (he, him) is a Lead Consultant Speech and Language Therapist, and Head of Speech and Language Therapy at the London Gender Identity Clinic, where he has worked since 2009. He is a National Adviser in Trans Voice for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, founder member of the Trans Voice Clinical Excellence Network and External Examiner for the Voice Studies MA/MFA at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Matthew is current President of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialsts (BAGIS).



VOICE CHOICE Listen to Matthew’s favourite vocal performance ‘Home' MJ Rodriguez on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0?si=8380f4264b42464e 



VOCALSCOPE BOOK CLUB - Join the VocalScope Book Club: https://www.vocalscopevoice.com/bookclub 

VOCALSCOPE Linktree: https://linktr.ee/vocalscope 

VOCALSCOPE Socials: @vocalscope

www.vocalscopevoice.com