This brochure presents the origins and work with the WHOLE VOICE which I learned as a student of ROY HART in London in the 1970's. It is a work of reclaiming the world of vocal sound that we possessed as infants but which was largely socialised out of us. Yet without this resource, which is vocal sound, there would be neither speaking nor singing. We forget that they are totally reliant on a more ancient capacity for sounding, which we share with many other creatures on planet earth. It is often an exilarating, life-giving, cathartic, moving and sometimes provocative experience to rediscover your whole voice, and realise how much of it - and thereby of you - has been locked away.

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The $trhole Voice - The Creative Voice

2. Realm of voice - realm of sense
The culture of the Western world has limited the
human voice to an extremely narrow field of
application, and thereby, to a very small range of
expression. But voice is more than just a means
of transport for the spoken or sung word, much
more than just a vehicle for language. Our vocal
repertoire is far more extensive than the one and
a half octaves, the few tone colours, the few
variations of expression to which we habitually
limit our original instrument in daily life.
The work of and with Noah Pikes, on and with
the voice, is a journey into the realm of sense. It
is the discovery of untouched strings within
ourselves, and thereby the touching meeting with
aspects of our human being, with certain of its
dimensions and variations which have remained
hidden too deeply and for too long.
Voice - m uscle of the sou I
Diaphragm, larynx and vocal cords are only the
physical aspect of sound production. Voice is the
resonance of inner states - it reflects bodily and
psychic impulses, it reverberates movements and
emotions, it evokes and provokes the memory
and imagination, reminding one of elemental and
animal origins, expressing spiritual aspirations. It
creates links to our personal and collective
individualities. Voice makes human nature
audible, reveals contradictions and defences,
allows limits to be felt and overcome. Our voice
is the muscle of our soul.
Noah Pikes, with the help of the whole voice, has
found waysp6nd means of experiencing the
archetypal fealm - by giving voice to the man in
the wo,,ffiiand the woman in the man, the giant,
the wiffi the hero, the lover, the elements, the
anim emons and gods within us.
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Gi room to one's whole voice means to give
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self and with the world.
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3. Noah Pikes - Voice guide
Noah Pikes is an unconventional speech and
singing teacher who considers voice work to be
also body and image work. His individual
sessions, his open seminars and theme workshops
for groups are for those seeking creative self-
expression and/or artistic expression, those who
want to open themselves to their voice and
thereby to themselves and to others. Through the
playful sounding of vowels and consonants, in
improvisations and in focused exercises and
researches, the trust in one's vocal capabilities is
re-awoken and unimagined possibilities of range,
colour, power, dynamic and shape emerge. The
sources of human identity and creativity are
accessed: the magic of speaking, singing and
sounding are re-found. Noah Pikes - Voice therapist
The search for the whole voice is also a search
for the authentic voice. It can reveal inner
dissonances, imbalances and the roots of duality
and can thereby effect liberation and healing. In
psychotherapy vocal expression often has a
specific and limited role - with Noah Pikes voice
work is less a means to an end than it is the way
and aim in one; namely to discover, hear and
appreciate moods and vibrations, emotions and
sensations, impressions and expressions. It is to
bridge mind and body, spirit and instinct, the re-
animation of the tonalities and tonicity of one's
own personality; the meeting with one's self.
Noah Pikes - Voice artist
Noah Pikes also performs with the voice. As
speaker and singer, interpreter of texts and sound
painter, improviser and communicator, whether
solo, or in a group. he reveals and goes beyond
vocal frontiers in a fusion of music and theater.
Combining words with tones, noise with sound,
animality with spirituality, facial expression
with body movement; high threads with
cavernous depths in a 5 octave range, a unity
emerges from this plurality. The audience,
seeing, hearing and feeling the many faces and
possibilites of the human voice are drawn into
the process, making of it an enlivening, enrich-
ing and enchanting experience.

4. Biography
Born in London in 1941. Studies in philosophy
and social sciences at Birmingham University. In
1969 in London, Noah Pikes began his research
into the creative, extended and whole voice under
the direction of the master in this field. Roy Hart.
(See next column). Further studies in music,
movement, clown theater, archetypal psychology
and psychodrama followed.
Noah Pikes is a founder member of the Roy Hart
Theater and was active in many of its highly
acclaimed performances in the UK and Europe.
From l9l4 he lived and worked in the Roy Hart
Center in the South of France until moving to
Switzerland in 1990.
Since 1985 Noah Pikes has performed in many
French cities, San Fransisco, Chicago, London,
Antwerp, Bern, Zirich and Hamburg:
- one-man shows (The Celebrant, Evocations)
- music theater (Vitres de Son - l0 jazz operas.
Piraten der Stimme with Iris Disse)
- concerts of improvised music (with Illustrio)
- radio (NDR March '94, with Iris Disse -
awarded "Play of the month" of all German
radio.)
- recordings (from Metamorphoses) for Spring.
As voice teacher he began in 1979, and has
developed his practice ever since. He has led
seminars on "Voice & Psyche" at the CG Jung
Institute, Zinch. He offers his work in various
forms and the contexts, wherever there is an
interest ip,the,whole voice, the creative voice.
As a *r$,ffi$#ilas written several articles; and is
Roots
Alfred Wofsohn and Roy Hart are the two names
dominating the history of the unchained, creative
and whole voice. Wolfsohn, born in Berlin in
1896, wanted to become a singer and strongly
influenced by his experience as a young soldier
during WW1, was led to profoundly question and
explore the meaning and power of the human
voice. In 1939 he escaped to London where, from
the 50's, the results of his work attracted much
attention. Wolfsohn had developed the range and
colours of the voices of several students in very
impressive ways and had established new
connections between the voice and the psyche,
(For more on Wolfsohn see Paul Newham's "The
Singing Cure" Rider 1993). After Wolfsohn's
death rn 1962 his student of 15 years, Roy Hart,
developed his pioneering work further into a
holistic practice linking body and soul and revi-
talising the very roots of theater and music. By
1969 an international group of 40 had grown
around him and became Roy Hart Theater. Hart
aiso performed in several major modern music-
theater compositions, which were specially
written or adapted for his 6 octave voice by
Maxwell-Davies, Henze and Stockhausen. In
l9l4 the Roy Hart Theater moved to France
where it soon gained a large public and state
recognition. In 1915 Roy Hart died in a car
accident but the group continued until its
disolution in 1990. Roy Hart's achievments in
openin,e new paths in both self and artistic
expression are still landrnarkers and continue to
be acknowledgod i#td**#ionally.
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Contact
Noah Pikes
Scheuchzerstrasse 122
CH-8006 Zirich
Tel./Fax: +41-l-363 88 97