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In Search of the Roots - Vocal Workshop
In this workshop, we will go on a quick journey to a small country in Eastern Europe called Bulgaria. Together, we will try to find the deep resonance of our body through physical and vocal improvisation in this music style. At the end, we will learn to sing simple, local songs and learn a little bit more about their Bulgarian roots. All voices welcomed; no previous vocal training necessary!
"bodies, speaking": listening to loudspeakers
In many forms of institutionalized music, there is an assumption that a loudspeaker should be ‘invisible’: that the best loudspeakers are those that convey audio as transparently as possible. This workshop session explores musical critiques of this premise. After a short talk and discussion of experimental loudspeaker composition, the workshop features a series of short, interactive listening exercises where participants can get to know their own at-home/computer loudspeakers—and the different ways that they can be seen, heard, and reimagined.
Discover Your Expressive Voice!
Let's use our voice to express ourselves! We can use nonsensical syllables, imitate what we hear or just simply make up sounds. Once we have explored our platter of expressive voice, it is time to let go and immerse ourselves in an experimental jam. Join the fun; no previous vocal training needed!
Standing Still and Blowing in the Wind: Viewpoints and 'The Stage as a Force of Nature'
This workshop will serve as an introduction to Mary Overlie’s Viewpoints, an approach to “non-hierarchical” composition that tries to to reframe the composing and improvising process from one of “creation and origination” to one of “observation and participation.” Viewpoints asks the artist to consider themselves in their surroundings and to “discern” structures and gestures from their environment, as opposed to “imposing” them. We will explore the technical language of this methodology, work as a group to develop the skills it asks for, and then split into small groups for improvising and composing.
A New Burst of Bloom: Improvisation Game for Large Ensembles
A New Burst Of Bloom is an open-ended improvisational game to engage smaller groups of performers within a large ensemble. In this session, we will learn to play this game using visual cards, creating real-time cues to encourage collaboration and connection across a big group. Please bring an instrument (of any kind).
Deep Listening Workshop
While living these uncertain times, this workshop seeks to create a telematic sounding connection through listening, improvisation, meditation, and dreams between the participants. It is based on the books and teachings of Pauline Oliveros, IONE and Heloise Gold. This workshop is open for musicians and non-musicians; please dress comfortably and bring an instrument, object and/or your body to improvise. Mar is a Deep Listening® Certificate Holder since 2016.
Imaginary Soundscapes: Exercises in Creative Listening
This workshop is open to anybody regardless of musical experience and background. It will consist of various listening exercises and creative prompts encouraging the participant to investigate their own associations with various sounds in relation to the world around them.
Polyrhythmic Zoom Phasing
We’ll experiment with the latency and phasing that are unavoidable in virtual music-making, using them generatively rather than trying to minimize them. For example, two parts that sound aligned to one person might sound misaligned to another, and we can use this effect to build up a polyrhythmic texture of parts that are related but offset. We'll explore Zoom effects like this and culminate with a collective performance.
Cybertogetherness
How do we achieve the liveliness of performance in a digital world? This workshop invites you to unite with us in the virtual space, reimagine different ways of togetherness and create group improvisation performances with multisensory experiences. It is not only a composition of performers but a choreography of media, frontstage and backstage.
Epistemology and the Javanese Musical Frame
A short workshop regarding intercultural collaboration across traditions with different musical symbolisms and conceptual frameworks. This decidedly non-technical workshop will deal with interpersonal communication in a variety of musical ensembles, focusing primarily on the Javanese concepts of ngelmu, rasa, and lagu batin and how these concepts can be applied to the development of new compositions for any ensemble, or even for non-musical performance.
Playing with Objects, Connecting with Place
How might the materials all around us function as musical scores? How might our relationship with ‘things’ and sound connect us to our environments? In this workshop, we explore discussions and exercises around these questions. No previous music training necessary!
Composing Time Through Sampling Processes
From manipulating playback parameters to burying records in the garden, explore sampling techniques that utilize time & place with heather and reina! How do these techniques allow us to compose time?? How does rethinking time allow us to compose differently?? How can we actually incorporate these concepts into our processes?? Join us to find out :^)