presents

The Listening Palette

An interactive companion for discovering your voice through listening.

Begin by listening.

Hear the shape before you make it.

Then try it—and listen again.

What do you hear in your own voice?What do you notice in your body?What changes?What becomes available?

The Listening Palette holds the structure so you can listen—to the sound, to your voice, and to your body.

Exercise Library

Look around before deciding what you want to sing.

Eight Exercises are here to meet without starting a Practice. Notice what draws your curiosity.

shared preparation

Shape Your Practice

Where is it comfortable to sing today?

your participation begins here

Find what feels comfortable today

Listen first, choose your Low and High boundaries, then confirm. Range currently shown, quietly as a reference: C3 / B♯2–C5 / B♯4.

Listen for what feels comfortablePlay a key to hear it. Listening does not choose a boundary.

Choose your Low and High notes

After listening, set the note you heard as a boundary, or choose both notes directly.

LOW boundaryThe comfortable bottom of today’s range

Choose Low directly

HIGH boundaryThe comfortable top of today’s range

Choose High directly

Confirm your Comfortable RangeLow C3 / B♯2 · High C5 / B♯4. This required step opens your practice choices.

Confirm or adjust your Comfortable Range to choose where you would like to go.

begin here

Shape your practice

Choose a comfortable boundary, receive a vowel shape, and see how many ways you can sing it.

Your comfortable range

Use the playable piano to listen and discover your lowest and highest comfortable notes, or choose them directly below if you already know your range. Every invitation will stay inside this easy, usable boundary.

Not sure of your range?

Begin on an easy speaking or humming note.
Open Find my range on the piano and use the keys to explore downward gently. When you find the lowest note that stays clear and comfortable, set it as your lowest note.
Return to an easy note and explore upward. Stop before squeezing or reaching, and set the highest comfortable note as your highest note.
You can also enter your Lowest and Highest notes directly if you already know them. Start with a smaller comfortable range—you can always change it later.

Range changes from day to day. Pain, strain, dizziness, or breathlessness means pause and reset with a voice teacher or clinician.

Lowest noteHighest note

Find my range on the piano

Find your low notePlay around and listen. Nothing changes until you choose a note.

Choose any key to hear it. You can listen for as long as you like.

No low or high note has been chosen yet.

Sound behavior

How should the Palette choose a sound during ordinary practice?

A stop is one visited note on the Practice Route. The sound stays steady for that stop's entire Note Pathway, then changes at the next visited note.

Change Palette

Choose an Adventure

Your Singer’s Palette is ready for listening. Choose an Adventure only when you want the Palette to hold a journey.

The Listening LabFor curious singing nerds.

Draft experiment

🧪 The Listening Lab

Construct a perceivable relationship. Your Shape Your Practice remains preserved until you commit this draft.

Build my Practice

Build one Practice from meaningful Parts

Give each Part its own sound and Shape. The complete sequence will travel together as one Pass.

live experiment map

What relationship am I investigating?

The concrete Practice above shows what you will sing and where it travels. This map shows the experimental relationship underneath it.

Holding steady

Sound shapes: No sounds chosen
Note pathway: 8-note ascending scale

Varying

Starting place: Move along the selected Practice Route

Also participating

Practice Route: Short listening route
Repetition: 1× each pathway
Playback pace: 1×
Breath pause: 2.5 seconds
Playback: both
Example voice: random

Repeating: 1× each pathway · 2.5s breath between passes

Notice: What relationship becomes perceptible?

Before you can practice

Choose at least one sound shape or singer-produced material.

Starting material: Basecamp. No realized pass has been recorded yet.

How does it travel?Note pathway · starting place · route · Note pathway: 8-note ascending scale · held; Starting place: G3 · varies; Practice Route: Short listening route

Choose the note pathway

Use an existing Palette recipe, or build a relative pathway of your own.

Exercise / pathwayPractice starting note

Find a comfortable place to startHear any route-safe note, then explicitly choose it. This updates the same Starting Note shown above.

Practice RouteTravelSound movement

What am I working with?Sound shapes · consonant doorway · see → hear → choose

What are you singing?

Choose a whole singer-produced material, or continue with vowel shapes below.

Choose up to 8 vowel shapes

The selected order moves through the chosen pathway. When there are fewer shapes than notes, the sequence cycles.

Arrange selected soundsReorder, remove, and review the sounds in your experiment.

Sound / Original 12

Original 12

The foundational Listening Palette

12 shapes

Sound / English Colors

English Colors

Familiar English vowel doorways

13 shapes

Sound / Diphthongs

Diphthongs

Sounds that travel

4 shapes

Sound / French Nasals

French Nasals

Playful nasal-color doorways

2 shapes

Sound / Familiar Singing Vowels

Familiar Singing Vowels

A · E · I · O · U

5 shapes

Sound / Languages

Languages

Arabic, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi

50 shapes

LanguagesArabicsee · hear · choose

Sound / Sound Qualities

Sound Qualities

Rounded-front, unrounded, nasal, and length partners

27 shapes

Sound / Beyond Earth 🌀

Beyond Earth 🌀

Klingon and Quenya · Elvish

15 shapes

Beyond Earth 🌀Klingonsee · hear · choose

Consonant doorway

What stays and what changes?Order · variation · Playback: both; Example voice: random

In what order?

Shuffle changes

Playback

Change what you hear to notice the pitch guide, the vowel color, or how they coordinate.

Hear

Example word voice

How does it unfold?Pace · repetition · breath · Repetition: 1× each pathway; Playback pace: 1×; Breath pause: 2.5 seconds

Pace & repetition

More space can reveal coordination and transitions; less space can reveal continuity and agility. These are note-event timings, not metronome beats.

Playback pace

Repeat each pathwayBreath pause

What vocal condition am I trying?Resonance · larynx · Nothing introduced

Resonance & larynxResonanceChange resonanceLarynx position

Committing opens Experiment Practice. Your Shape Your Practice will remain preserved for return.

make the sound · meet it with your ear

Listen to the sound you are making

← darker / back

your practice invitation

What reveals itself?

where I am now

Filled key: sounding nowOutlined key: Starting NoteNumbers: complete pathway order

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Natural / oralMiddle larynx

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Natural / oralMiddle larynx

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Natural / oralMiddle larynx

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Natural / oralMiddle larynx

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Natural / oralMiddle larynx

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Natural / oralMiddle larynx

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Natural / oralMiddle larynx

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Natural / oralMiddle larynx

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Natural / oralMiddle larynx

Play this pass

Prepare the Practice

Exercise sound

Start on

Note pace

Practice RouteHow the complete Practice travels through your Comfortable Range.

Repeat each pathway

time

Each Route stop receives this many complete Passes. Repeats at one stop keep that stop’s vowel.

Timing and Route detailsBreath space · travel details

Between Passes

Breath pause

Begin on G3 and visit 3 valid stops. Each stop receives the complete Note Pathway.

brighter / front →

How many different ways can you sing this shape?

find your note

A little listening piano

Your keyboard follows the comfortable range you chose above. Hold any key to sustain it; let go to release it. Follow the colored numbers if note names are new to you.

Current pathwayFive Notes1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 4 · 3 · 2 · 1 · 3-stop short listening route

Keys at this stop

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Available now · Singer’s PaletteRotate follows this visible order.

✦ Stay with any sound as long as it remains interesting. ✦