VoiceLessons Knowledge

Breathing Used For Emotion

Written by Allen Rascoe | Sep 12, 2025 1:00:00 PM

In singing, the emotion as heard by the listener is due to a complex interaction of factors.

These factors are:

  • Facial expressions,
  • Bodily gestures and movement,
  • Sound colors, and of basic importance
  • The way in which we are able to move air including how we catch the breath and toss it as a feel.

Of course, the feel of moving the air around is done with our imagination and conscious mind which sends appropriate command information to the subconscious. All must be well tuned pre-phonatorily which means that functional vocal work is done correctly over and over so as to condition the muscles to healthily respond.

Then, the subconscious mind will accomplish the feat; calling upon and energizing muscles which give us the feel of air being shaped in a way that we can move around according to our imagination. This shaped air becomes soundwaves infused with mental nervous energy that reflects to the listener a sound full of emotional content.