A.P.P. Inter-Centre Bulletin No. 10 (October 1977)

Bulletin of the International Association of Audio-Psycho-Phonology (A.I.A.P.P.), No. 10, October 1977. The cover bears the printed heading “Association Internationale d’Audio-Psycho-Phonologie” and the title “Bulletin A-P-P Inter Centres,” referred to in the text by the abbreviation B.I.C.; it is the tenth issue of this liaison bulletin between the centres practising the method, launched in February 1976.

This issue opens with an editorial that takes stock of more than a year of the bulletin’s existence, calls on the centres and members to pass on more information, and announces an international opening with the introduction of articles in parallel French-English translation, aimed in particular at readers in North America and South Africa; it also mentions the planned revival of the A.P.P. Review in 1978. The body of the bulletin reviews training in audio-psycho-phonology: preparation of an A.P.P. school whose seat would probably be in Paris, expansion of the training department abroad, and a detailed schedule of sessions (Paris, Fribourg, Montreal-Ottawa with courses in French and English, Carboneras). A section reports on the refresher days held at the Centre du Langage under the direction of Professor Tomatis, assisted by several collaborators, with their neurophysiological and clinical programme.

There follows a section devoted to academic work inspired by A.P.P. (theses and dissertations defended or in progress in linguistics, musicology and psychocriticism), extended by an international bibliography listing French, Belgian and South African works. A press review (“The press and A.P.P.”) cites articles published in Belgium and in English-language publications, and the issue reproduces a synthesis on the “Tomatis Effect” setting out the laws of the interdependence of hearing and phonation, the notion of the directing ear and the cortical energising function of the ear. The bulletin closes with the terms of supporting subscription to the B.I.C. for the year October 1977 – September 1978.

Historical context — In the autumn of 1977, Alfred Tomatis’s audio-psycho-phonology method rested on an international network of centres coordinated by the A.I.A.P.P. and relayed in France by its national association. This tenth bulletin illustrates the effort to institutionalise the discipline — the school project, the structuring of training abroad, the bilingual opening — and the desire to make the theoretical foundations of Tomatis’s work known to a broader scientific and professional audience.