ABSTRACT
HEALTHY VOICES The healthy development of resonance and vibrancy in the singing and speaking voice depends largely on allowing time for the natural channelling of PVE during infancy - in other words, on allowing kids to shriek! When this is not allowed to happen, for whatever reason, energy is gradually removed from the speaking and singing voice, and remains as a repressed source of energy. Students with difficulties in making loud sounds, or finding expressiveness in the voice, have sometimes told me they were constantly hushed as children. PVE (Primitive Vocal Energy), with its direct link to energy and feeling, needs to be recognised and re-integrated as part of the source material of the singing voice.
