The Background to EmbodimaEmbodima™ is the result of over 12 years of development, testing and research on over 100 singing students and a cohort of singer-volunteers, tested at the University of Oxford, University of Cardiff and UCL. |
What the Embodima™ Project was set up to do:
- Look at widespread use of motor imagery in other disciplines–sport, medicine and music–when imagining an action is overtly physical, such as running, playing a violin, imagining movement in an affected limb.
- Try to understand the use of motor imagery in singers when the muscles are deep and not seen or felt.
- To assess which imagery is helpful, and which is anatomically misleading.
- To open the debate on this immense subject.
Embodima™ Research
These are EMG recordings of activity in the abdominal muscles. The green readings were taken BEFORE and the red readings were taken 15 minutes AFTER the introduction of Embodima™ images and gestures.
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Readings show increased muscle activity after the use of Embodima™ gestures.
These results came from the first set of tests carried out in collaboration with Dr Damon Hoad at UCL.
© Harrison, N; Watson, A; Hoad, D (2012-2017)
These results came from the first set of tests carried out in collaboration with Dr Damon Hoad at UCL.
© Harrison, N; Watson, A; Hoad, D (2012-2017)
Article Series
These articles were written as a series published in AOTOS magazine for singing teachers. They offer a progressive approach to explain Embodima™, the science behind it, its effectiveness in creating change in sound and its immediate practical application to vocal training techniques.
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