Frascati shows Genetic Choir related works this month

Dear Genetic Choir followers and friends,

it might interest you that the Amsterdam Theater Frascati has two events coming up with a connection to Genetic Choir:

On Saturday, 26th of January 2019, during COME TOGETHER #4, Burkhard Körner will show a work-in-progress durational performance of a performative research he started with Genetic Choir singers recently: VOCAL OBJECTS (from 19:35 to 21:20)

Can we create a texture of voices that makes us see vibrations and structures in space?
Can a voice act as strong as a laser installation?
Is it possible to leave traces that we start remembering the vocal impact across the space?

This will happen next to many other events and performances all over Frascati. Full program is here.

One week later, on

1+2 February 2019, 20:30, Frascati shows the performance VOICE by Loïc Perela, which premiered on Kampnagel (K3), in Hamburg last year.

VOICE is about holding space together
It is sharing a listening
A dance you can watch eyes closed
Sound as dancing images

Loïc and his dancers received a three day workshop of Genetic Choir work by Thomas at the beginning of their rehearsal period in Rotterdam. Go now and see what it has become!

Read more about the performance here.

Last places for Friday Morning course jan-april 2019

Just a short note to say that the FRIDAY MORNING group that starts in January with a new block has only two places left. So if you were thinking about joining, let us know now. 😀

UPDATE: the Friday Morning Group for spring 2019 is full by now.

The other upcoming workshop worth considering (before it fills up) is this one:

STRUCTURES & FLOW on 9+10 February 2019
about set-ups and frames for improvisation and how tot deal with them as ‘free’ improvisers

You can find more info about the weekend and how to inscribe on the workshop page.

If you have questions, send us a mail under workshops@genetic-choir.org

See you around!

15+16 December 2018 – RESONANCE & VOICE TEXTURES

a Genetic Choir workshop

Upcoming is a weekend to explore and enrich your voice by opening your ears to the multi-layered complexities of human sound, and play with it together in a polyphonic way: overtones, textures, resonance, timbre…

In deze workshop onderzoek en verrijk je je stem rond resonantie en klank textuur. Terwijl je je oren traint, train en open je je stem. We werken en componeren met tonen, klinkers, andere textuurrijke geluiden van de menselijke stem, klank-clusters, resonantie-ruimtes… (meer info in het Nederlands: klik hier en scroll dan naar beneden)

A workshop on improvising with voice colours and resonance

The voice is a special system in our body – it is eager to learn and it reacts to its own sounds. By opening your ears alone, your voice can learn to become more free and resonant.

This workshop will improve your voice by focussing for one weekend on the aspects of sound that are often overlooked: resonance, texture, timbre, overtones. Whatever level of experience you are at, this work will increase your singing skill: Beginners will be surprised about the round and resonant sound that their voice will gain, and the ease of singing that comes with it. Experienced and professional singers will improve their ability to do precision-work in this area: Differentiating pitch, sound colour and resonance and working with both control and surrender on these points. And how to compose music, solo and ‘en groupe’ with these ingredients? How to create both soothing carpets of sound and grinding dissonant cluster-chords. How to develop the music together, how to dissolve your voice in a sea of sounds, but also make clearly defined choices and cut through the music with your own line of melody or sound.

In the cold month of December a workshop that will warm you up from the inside and get your whole body to resonate!

15 + 16 December 2018 / 10:30-17:00  /  133,10 Euro (110,- excl.VAT) / Amsterdam

The workshop will take place at: studio Wladiwostok, Bogortuin 16, Amsterdam

To reserve your place in the workshop:

1. send us an e-mail via
   workshops@genetic-choir.org with your
   – name (and account owner from where you made the payment)
   – telephone number
2. please transfer the workshop fee by clicking this payment link
   (tell us by e-mail if you would like an invoice for your payment)

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Other upcoming workshops to join in 2019:

From 18 January 2019: Friday Morning Sessions

9+10 February 2019: Structures and Flow

23+24 March 2019: Space Sound Bodies

6+7 July 2019: The Edge of Language

Scroll down on the workshop page to read more about these workshops and reserve a place.

Genetic Choir on IDFA in Kleine Komedie this Sunday!

In an attempt to hack and question the language of nature films, the Genetic Choir will appear on the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam this Sunday, in the IDFA on Stage event NATURE’S NICKELODEON.

18 November 2018, at 19:30, in the Kleine Komedie, Amsterdam

More info & tickets via IDFA here: https://www.idfa.nl/en/shows/3cf30b69-3bf2-4672-8209-57ae346e987e/idfa-on-stage-natures-nickelodeons

Together with other invited musicians like beatboxer Jason Singh, synth-musician Bridget Hayden and harpist Serafina Steer, the Genetic Choir and instructed volunteers will create new live sounds for nature documentary footage, curated by Amy Cutler (UK).

“How can the nature documentary escape from the framework of the big, or small screen? In this performance, curator Amy Cutler sets out to hack the language and content of this genre.

Experience nature as never before in a performance in which experimental artists turn the traditional nature documentary on its head!”

 

Genetic Choir in Breda – workshop on 10 november 2018

There is a One-Day Genetic Choir session in Breda coming up, and still a few places left to join!

This is good news for everyone in the south of the Netherlands or Belgium who always thought Amsterdam is a bit too far to travel…  😀   A dedicated group of people have gathered in Breda this April, and we continue the work with a full day workshop on Saturday, 10th of November at the wonderful premises of Musicaja.

Een Genetic Choir workshop is een muzikale hutspot met geïmproviseerde ingrediënten. Iedereen kan zonder voorkennis deelnemen, want alle soorten stemmen en muzikale voorkeuren zijn welkom.  Maar als alles mogelijk is, hoe kies je dan waar je voor wil gaan? En hoe doe je dat samen, in samenspel en in contact met anderen? In deze workshop leer je zowel soepel mee te bewegen in een keuken vol met klankmogelijkheden als ook trouw te blijven aan jezelf. We trainen overgave en stevigheid, plezier in je eigen stem en die van een ander, en het plezier in de stilte.

10 November 2018 / 10:00-16:00  /  72 Euro (60,- excl.BTW) / Breda

location: Musicaja Zangschool, Bastionstraat 13, 4817 LD Breda

To reserve your place in the workshop:

1. send us an e-mail via
   workshops@genetic-choir.org with your
   – name (and account owner from where you made the payment)
   – telephone number
2. please transfer the workshop fee by clicking this payment link
   (tell us by e-mail if you would like a invoice for your payment)

 

 

Melodies & Songs workshop in Amsterdam

Join us next week in Amsterdam to surprise yourself with melodies and song inside the open approach of Genetic Choir free improvisation music!

Singers who want to purely improvise will be challenged with the task of solo improvising and story-telling in music. And those who like to work with an existing song will be taken on adventurous journeys of unexpected ensemble improvisations with it.

13+14 October – Melody Makers: Old Songs, New Songs

Melodies are the storytellers of music. Just start singing a few notes and instantly there is a feeling/atmosphere, the beginning and clear promise of a much longer story. Melodies are also playful creatures, meaning that in bigger numbers they tend to swirl around each other, being looped and copied and transposed, creating ever-new relations and mixed identities, transforming to totally different music or ending in beautiful silences.

The Genetic Choir approach ensures that you don’t need any particular background to be able to join this workshop. Everybody works from his preferred musical style and own level of experience. The magic happens in the middle.

13 + 14 October 2018 / 10:30-17:00  /  133,10 Euro (110,- excl.VAT) / Amsterdam

The workshop will take place at: studio Wladiwostok, Bogortuin 16, Amsterdam

To reserve your place in the workshop:

1. send us an e-mail via
   workshops@genetic-choir.org with your
   – name
   – telephone number
2. please transfer the workshop fee by clicking this payment link
   (tell us by e-mail if you would like a invoice for your payment)

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Other workshop dates coming up:

10 November: One-Day Genetic Choir workshop in Breda
15+16 December: Resonance & Voice Textures in Amsterdam

 

WHAT IIIF? LONDON 27-30 SEPT 2018

After having been the guest of the Genetic Choir in Amsterdam in 2017, the IIIF is striking down in London this weekend! Be welcome to any of the events, if you are in the neighbourhood. 🙂

Interdisciplinary Instant Composition

What IIIF ? London is beta 0.2 of the Interdisciplinary International Improvisation Festival.  This research festival (the first was in Amsterdam in 2017) brings together researchers from around Europe to ask the absurd question, ‘How/Can improvisation be documented ?’

The festival moves within the London Improvisation scene and includes workshops, performances and reflection sessions.  We use only one method of documentation for each iteration of the festival.  For IIIF Amsterdam, it was video.  For What IIIF ? LONDON, it’s writing.  Writing it down, on paper, on a computer, on a board, on your hand, printing, printing pages somewhere, cursive, upside down, backwards.

Independent, artist-run and self-organized, nomadic and iterative, absent or present, it’s open to everyone who is interested.

Public venues :

Thursday, 27/09 6 pm Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, SW11 4AN LONDON

PERFORMANCE Facebook Event

Saturday 29/09 10:20 am Middlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve

PARTICIPATION and PERFORMANCE

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