The Thinking Body is the title of Mabel Elsworth Todd’s 1937 book on how to achieve better neuro-muscular coordination. Anyone who need use their body with precision and speed seek methods to release tension and attain control; yoga, taichi, ideokinesis, and alexander technique, feldenkrais method… Musicians especially demand fine motor control than the coordination of entire body like dancers and athletes. Still, does music performance operate like sports and any emotional parts are illusions? Or can physical material like our body and sound actually carry meanings, even vaguely?

