Music has always been my main elixir of life. Singing especially, my main language.
Singing to express myself, singing when processing emotions, singing when entertaining audience to calming down kids. In my former jobs I automatically used music therapy, without even knowing it and was taken aside by two bosses at two different workplaces, telling me about how my techniques o using music with kids and people, at gatherings, meeting etc. was much more advances than what educated people got taught at school. For me it came natural.
As a child I invented music and later on when they released the newest singles from artist', that new single was.. The song I had been singing for years for myself. I made all my music teachers cry whenever I could sing and in 2nd grade a headhunter was invited to go and watch me - they told me, after observing me for months during music class. Around that same time I was offered to receive private song classes, but sadly someone in my family refused to allow this to become a thing as I was already doing sports and singing was not part of the plan.
As time passed by, I grew up and became more and more anxious as to why I was not allowed to sing. My neighbour suddenly yelled at me behind the wall when I was singing at home and I felt like I needed to hide myself in order to not be marked. People at school sometimes
I suddenly felt like giving back what I experience from my trips to nature. Placing the palm in the ocean/walking out or sitting in silence on a mountain/rock and listening. Though the exhibition is mostly expressed through the visual, the main experiences comes from the musical part as I quickly felt a flow of musical inspiration coming to me when going on my trips out of the city, to the nature.
My way of singing changed. The usual formation of how to build up music, replaced by repetitive melodies and tones used in a way that I had never sung before, though singing has always been my main key instrument. I've been singing most genres - suddenly finding myself unfolding the voice in ways I had never done. To Indian and middle Eastern scales combined with sounds that feels like home. I call it "intuitive singing" - others have called it "Shamanic singing mixed with kulning, Indian and middle eastern scales. My background is from a mix of classical, musical, hard rock and jazz. -
