Musicians need to learn a special '
circular breathing' technique which involves exhaling by using the muscles in their cheeks while breathing in through their nose.
Caption: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vicious
Circular Breathing, 2013, sealed glass prism with automated sliding-door system, motorized bellows, electromagnetic valve, sixty-one brown paper bags, custom circuitry, respiration tubing, sensors, computer.
Round like the woolen ger of home,
circular breathing is felt--in
The long passages, making use of the
circular breathing technique, gave the impression that the player possessed at least one standby set of lungs, with the extensive glissandos seemingly denying the instrument's very nature.
After a sheets-of-sound sax solo there was an impressionistic drum interlude over a pedal bass and a mesmerising coda from the trumpeter, in which Waterman used
circular breathing to execute a long, repetitive cadenza that had overtones of Phillip Glass.
Both are keen musicians, so much so that Paul's first words to his elder brother at Birmingham Airport were: "Sorry, I've brought my didgeridoo with me because I've got to practise my
circular breathing."
In one tent, Maria Leonard, a rebirthing breathwork practitioner, explained that through the technique, established and popularized in the 1960s, she taught clients the art of
circular breathing, connecting the inhale with the exhale.
I think it was probably connected to the
circular breathing technique that is necessary to master and it's that
circular breathing thing that is baffling me at the moment.
Stetson is equally at home in the avant jazz tradition of players who have pushed the boundaries of the instrument through
circular breathing, embouchure, etc.
"It's the
circular breathing which takes time and allows you to go without stopping.
Later Jackson pointed out that
circular breathing technique is something the bassoon and the didgeridoo, a large wooden wind instrument, have in common.