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Dear Greetings!,
This Sunday night the National Geographic Channel will be showcasing the innerworkings of the vocal apparatus using Aerosmith's lead vocalist, Steven Tyler, as a volunteer! Tyler had "blown out" his voice following a bout with unexplained chest congestion, and had to seek medical attention in order to be able to speak and sing again without pain. In one concert alone, the scientists show how Tyler's vocal cords collided over a 500,000 times!
Cords can take quite a beating, and we voice teachers at MusicMakers are commited to making sure that our voice students are not beating themselves up (literally!). Vocal health should always be at the foundation of any voice lesson. Too often I have seen talented young singers blow out their voices due to no training or poor training with a teacher who just does not understand the graceful art and science of creating a beautiful sound in the most healthy of ways. This is why the MusicMakers vocal training is called "Healthy Singing."
This show should be interesting not only to the singer or singer-in-training, but to anyone who uses their voice professionally on a regular basis.
Enjoy! Please let me know your thoughts on the show by emailing me at paulap@musicmakersacademy.com.
Very Truly Yours,
Paula Penna, MMed., BMus.
Director
The MusicMakers Academy
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Incredible Human Machine
This Sunday, October 21st at 9pm
National Geographic Channel
Watch how the human vocal cords work, and how
vocal injuries occur and can be corrected
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Singer Steven Tyler Featured in "Incredible Human Machine" Premiering Sunday October 21st
From
Aerosmith Lead Singer Steven Tyler's Vocal Cords to Olympic Athletes'
Prowess to Blue Angels' Endurance -Incredible Human Machine Details
Extreme Human Feats, Cutting-Edge Medical Science and the Body's Daily
Marvels
While we may have taught computers to 'think' and
robots to talk, no modern technology can compare to the most versatile
machine that has dominated the planet for thousands of years: the human
body.
Premiering Sunday, October 21 9pm ET/8pm PT, National Geographic Channel's Incredible Human Machine takes viewers on an
intricate two-hour guided tour inside the human body from head to toe.
With phenomenal computer generated images (CGI) and magnified camera
technology, this breathtaking special unearths the complex functions
that enable humans to see, smell, hear, think, move and heal.
Incredible
Human Machine examines what keeps our 100 trillion cells working
everyday. If it requires as many as 100 muscles just to say 'hello',
how is the body able to conquer even more complicated tasks like
propelling the body forward? Remarkably detailed CGI illustrate the
nuances of the body - from how three tiny tubes in the ears help us
stay balanced to the two million holes across our skin that act as our
heating and cooling systems.
To demonstrate the power of human
speech, Incredible Human Machine goes backstage at an Aerosmith concert
to evaluate stress on lead singer Steven Tyler's vocal cords. In what
represents a historical first, researchers are able to conduct real
time measurers of a performer during a live event in front of tens of
thousands of people. Tyler's vocal cords slam together more than half
a million times during the course of a single concert. Viewers can
watch first-hand as state of the art laser technology eliminates
fragile blood vessels on Tyler's vocal cords to help his finely tuned
vocal cords spring back into action.
This laser technology
along with other innovative surgeries are just a few of the next
generation of treatment options that will keep us running in the years
to come. Watch as doctors harvest nerves from the leg to act as a
'splice wire', restoring mobility to a patient's arm. In another
experimental surgery to remove a brain tumour, doctors keep their
patient awake while they operate to keep his ability to speak intact.
From
the 97,000 kilometres of arteries, veins and capillaries - enough
'roadway' to loop twice around the world - to 120 million
photoreceptors in our eyes, 10,000 taste buds on our tongues and 10
million 'smell distinguishers' in our noses, Incredible Human Machine
explains them all.
Incredible Human Machine is produced for
National Geographic Channels International by National Geographic
Television. Eleanor Grant is the Executive Producer for National
Geographic Television. For National Geographic Channels International,
Executive Vice President of Content is Sydney Suissa.
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