Dear voice and improvisation aficionado’s,
here the dates and themes of upcoming Genetic Choir workshops!
Genetic Choir INTRODUCTION WORKSHOP
Sunday, 7 October 2018
13:00-16:00 in the Badhuis, Haarlem from 13:00-16:00
contribution: 12,50 Euro / 2,50 for HaarlemPas holders
to RESERVE A PLACE, write an e-mail to info@haarlemoogst.nl
13+14 October 2018:
MELODY MAKERS – OLD SONGS, NEW SONGS
This weekend workshop will combine our knowledge of improvising with melodies (single or multi-layered) with using existing songs (or fragments of songs) as basis for new, instantly composed music. You can either come with a prepared song or completely blank, and we will workshop how to integrate different styles of song-singing into Genetic Choir improvisations. Those who want to purely improvise will be challenged with the task of solo improvising and story-telling. And those who like to work with their existing song will be taken on adventurous journeys of non-idiomatic ensemble improvisations with it. 🙂
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:
- send us an e-mail via
workshops@genetic-choir.org with your
– name (and account owner from where you made the payment)
– telephone number
- please transfer the workshop fee by clicking this payment link
(tell us by e-mail if you would like a invoice for your payment)
10 November 2018 – ONE-DAY workshop in BREDA
a general celebration of Genetic Choir singing and training, now in the south of the Netherlands (also well reachable for our Belgium friends. 😉
10 November 2018 / 10:00-16:00 / 72 Euro (60,- excl.VAT) / Amsterdam
There is a group forming for regular workshops in Breda, which is really nice.
But also with no previous experience with singing or improvisation, you are welcome!
To reserve your place in the workshop:
- send us an e-mail via
workshops@genetic-choir.org with your
– name (and account owner from where you made the payment)
– telephone number
- please transfer the workshop fee by clicking this payment link
(tell us by e-mail if you would like a invoice for your payment)
15+16 December 2018 – RESONANT VOICES
Weekend workshop to explore and enrich your voice by opening your ears to the multi-layered complexities of sound, and play with it together in a polyphonic way: overtones, textures, resonance, timbre…
In deze workshop onderzoek en verrijk je je stem op het niveau van resonantie en klank textuur. Terwijl je je oren traint, train en open je je stem. We werken en componeren met open klanken, andere textuurrijke geluiden van de menselijke stem, klank-clusters, resonantie-ruimtes, etc… (meer info in het Nederlands, klik hier en scroll 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: Using timbre and textures to compose music, solo and ‘en groupe’. 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 go your own way, if you are inclined to.
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:
- send us an e-mail via
workshops@genetic-choir.org with your
– name (and account owner from where you made the payment)
– telephone number
- please transfer the workshop fee by clicking this payment link
(tell us by e-mail if you would like a invoice for your payment)
FRIDAY MORNING SESSIONS
The group for the autumn block that starts in September is filled by now. You can currently give yourself up for the next block, which will start on January 18th, 2019.
More info on the training is here.
PLACE: studio De Eester, C. van Eesterenlaan 302, Amsterdam
DATES: every second Friday morning, 10:00-12:30, starting January 18th, 2019 (8 sessions)
COSTS: 232,32 euro (192,- euro excl.VAT)
Send an email to workshops@genetic-choir.org to pre-reserve a place from January.
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On Sunday, 7 October, there is a lovely context for (getting to know) Genetic Choir voice work provided by the festival Haarlem Oogst:
