A collaborative session where we will come up with vocal loops inspired by Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra techniques. Following an unplugged exploration of the different types of loops we can make, we will co-create a constantly evolving improv song using a microphone and a loop station. There will also be opportunities for solos.

Inspired by Música do Círculo, this session will embrace the potential of music-making with both voice and body. We are both the string that vibrates and the drum that resonates! Through an alchemy of musical games, we'll immerse ourselves in the spirit of play, stepping out of thinking and opening ourselves to presence, cultivating listening, connection and creative expression. This will be a light, gentle exploration of body music which is welcoming and open to all. 

You can improvise with words! Yes you can. I didn’t used to think I could; now I’ve released 3 albums with completely improvised lyrics. It’s possible!

We will scramble your logical, literal, polite brain, tie up its wrists and ankles and throw it in the boot; allowing your poetic dreamtime to access your mouth. It’s amazing what s/he/they can come up with, and we gradually learn to practice surrender and allow it to flow. These methods come from Rhiannon, a CVI pioneer with a theatre degree who brought huge contributions to the artform in the realm of lyrics, meaning, poetics and storytelling.

An exploration of the Animal Matrix.

Drawing on principles from voice movement therapy, this session will give physical shape and vocal sound to the animal cycle. Our time together will support us in embodying our instincts and connecting with the visceral power of vocal improvisation, as well discovering how we might use this texture within a performance setting.

An immersive, outdoor singing experience exploring our interconnectedness as beings of nature with each other, and with that which is bigger than us all. Through games, expansion of the senses and deep listening practices, allow yourself to be transported out of your thinking brain and into your body as creature, as play, as energy, as part of a whole heap of vibrating atoms. Still a fully accessible session, just dress for the weather!

A space for vocal improvisers to build and refine their practice.

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We’ll focus on the different aspects of Collaborative Vocal Improvisation: Developing rhythmic vocabulary, creating diverse musical contexts, playing with invented language, exploring shapes and structures - the compositional aspect of improvisation… And most importantly cultivating spaciousness, openness to one another, conscious listening and mutual support.

I’m truly fascinated by the rich tapestry of meaning and emotion that we assign to words and how that can alter and inspire changes in our physicality. Drawing on my interdisciplinary practice of collaborative improvisation that includes voice, words and movement, I will guide you through a series of ways into solo, duo and group exploration of the relationship between language and body. We’ll be moving between mirroring - converging, following - translating and influencing - collaborating. No prior movement experience needed.

We will journey all the way from our inner somatic landscape to a playful and profound space of movement-based collaboration. We will practice deep listening to the movements of the body, transforming sensation into sound, and opening a channel to express what arises from within. We will explore improvisation that emerges from imaginative, creative movement, and come together to co-create moving tapestries of sound. Shift your perception of voice from something we do, to something we are.