Something Like #24: Voices from the Inside w/ Bitsy Knox

The voice lives inside and outside of our bodies, simultaneously. When you speak, or sing, or hum, you’re moving mass inside of your own body and mass around you. Like colours and smells, different tones and different vowels have specific effects on different parts of our bodies. These are some basic principles that the healing music researcher, flautist, Dianic priestess, teacher and lesbian music pioneer Kay Gardner (1941–2002) outlined so prolifically in her writings and audio recordings, Music as Medicine (1997-8). In this episode of Something Like, we’re going to invoke Gardner to guide us through the potential of our own voices to heal ourselves and others. Meanwhile, we’ll step through vocal and traditional choral traditions and innovations.

• As always, Something Like’s jingle music is by Roger 3000
• The music under my voice this week is Pauline Oliveros’ Accordian and Voice (1982)
• You can find all of Kay Gardner’s Music as Medicine sessions on Youtube, and more information about her research in her 1997 book Sounding the Inner Landscape