Hi, Asher,
I'm not sure I understand "armature" in this context. I know of about three meanings of that word but I can't quite fit any of them in here.
Doug,
I referred to the way his orbicularis oris and lip muscles are "wound" to create expressive shaping.
But the more accurate word here is
embouchure. This is the highly skilled and instrument and performance-specific, (continuously controlled and modified), muscular shaping of the lips to provide the exactly needed shape to control the air passing to a wind instrument and achieve the quality of musical sounds required. Here, in James' remarkable photograph, we can read emotive social signals by the equally facile manner in which the man's lips are exquisitely shaped, curved, protruded and rolled, without him uttering a word. This facial signaling is remarkable and intricate. In autism spectrum disorder, we lose the ability to emotionally connect to such signaling and experience and "feel the qualities transmitted. Newly introduced magnetic-electric head gear can return this reading skill of social perception and empathy, so it may be inherent genetically and not learned.
Perhaps it is a Sirian expression.
Was that a humorous allusion to malapropes, or what?
Asher