Genetic Choir workshops from September 2019

It’s holidays! But we want to already inform you that after a well-deserved summer break we will start the workshop season in September again with

One-Day workshops in Amsterdam and Breda

and a new set of

8 Friday Morning Sessions in Amsterdam

More detailed info about these workshops is on our Workshop Page, here below in this post the overview:

Sunday, 1 September 2019

One-Day Genetic Choir workshop in Amsterdam

There are just a few places left, so if you want to be there:

1. reserve with this payment link
2. send us an email with your name and telephone number (workshops@genetic-choir.org)
   
   If you reserved at a moment that there are no places left anymore, we will refund you in full once we are back from vacation. It will be first come, first served on date of the payments that have come in.

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Friday Morning Sessions from 13 september

You are welcome to inscribe to these sessions if you have done a Genetic Choir workshop before!

Dates: 13-09 / 20-09 / 04-10 / 18-10 / 01-11 / 15-11 / 29-11 / 13-12

To reserve a place, follow the procedure above, but then using this payment link for the Friday Sessions.

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Saturday, 30 November 2019

One-Day Genetic Choir workshop in Breda

…for the Genetic Choir singers who regularly gather in the South of the Netherlands and all those interested who’d like to get to know our voice improvisation work!

To reserve a place, follow the procedure above, but then using this payment link for the Breda Workshop.

Don’t forget to send us an email so we can match your payment to you. 😀

“Shower, Silence, Spirits” – Monday at 4pm

Tomorrow, Monday 8 July, Genetic Choir singers will perform an OffHandOpera by Reinhard Gagel in the wake of our Edge of Language workshop in Amsterdam.

You are welcome to witness it at 16:00 in studio de Eester, C. van Eesterenlaan 302, Amsterdam

Dr. Reinhard Gagel is head of research at exploratorium Berlin and connected to the Genetic Choir through the International Interdisciplinary Improvisation Festival initiative (WhatIIIF?)

Singing for Bamboo Sphere in Arti et Amicitiae

This Friday, Genetic Choir singers will open the UPDATE exhibition in Amsterdam art house Arti et Amicitiae.

We are invited for a collaboration with Maria Blaisse and her artwork “Bamboo Sphere”.

For this performance, we will use first studies of our understanding of the intangible voice, which will be part of Genetic Choir’s (Non)Corpus project that is will kick in fully later this year. (you can still get involved as test-audience this autumn, click here 😀 )

28 June 2019, 19:00

Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, Amsterdam

Entrance: free / performance starts directly after the opening at 7pm
There is food and a buffet available from 18:00 (vouchers at the bar)

Genetic Choir singers in this performance: Irene Rametta, Jeannette Huizinga, Moira Mirck, Marjolijn Roeleveld, Thomas Johannsen en Yank Bıçakçı

23 June: Laboratory (Non)Corpus on WeMakeTheCity2019

– klik hier voor Nederlands –

Everywhere in the world, the voice connects us. We speak, sing, listen and move each other with the vibrations of our voice. What touches us in the voice? What does the voice touch?

At a time when religious traditions are often seen as a divisive element of modern society, the Genetic Choir is developing a project that brings together both religious and secular Amsterdammers, celebrates the voice as a connecting element, and challenges city-dwellers to listen through the ears of a different context.

How is the voice experienced by a faithful Muslim, a faithful Christian, or a concert-goer of no faith? When does the voice touch something we have no words for?

Sunday, 23 June, 14:00-16:00
Dominicuskerk, Spuistraat 12, Amsterdam
free event! part of WeMakeTheCity2019

The (Non)Corpus project starts in 2019 with a series of ‘do-and-think’ encounters, to which we invite all those interested, starting with this laboratory on 23 June. We will facilitate first listening experiments and conversations, and you can work yourself with voice and sound this afternoon.

Additionally, you will have the possibility to register yourself to become more involved in this project in the autumn of this year. We are looking for a group of curious audience-collaborators who would like to follow us in our process, join the creative thinking process, and give us feedback on everything we develop.

In collaboration with mosques, churches and Pakhuis de Zwijger, (Non)Corpus organizes public workshops, meetings and concerts in October, November and December.

Become a ‘guide’ for the Genetic Choir in its search for the essence of the human voice!

Contact us if you are interested but cannot be there on 23 June (or you would like to know more): noncorpus@genetic-choir.org

Words become Music: The Edge of Language workshop 2019

Once a year, the Genetic Choir looks intensely into the wonders and pitfalls of working with language in improvised music.

The Edge of Language
6 + 7 July 2019
10:30-17:00 in Amsterdam

Vocal sounds can become words and words can become vocal music, but as a special focus for this year, we will look mainly at the latter: How to deal with existing text as a source of creating improvised music.

How much do we care about the meaning of the words? How much do we allow ourselves to play and break free from all meaning?

Join us in this workshop on 6+7 July, in which we also welcome some guests from Berlin!

dates/time: 6+7 July 2019, 10:30-17:00 

costs: 110,- exBTW (133,10 incl.) 

location: studio De Eester, C. van Eesterenlaan 302, Amsterdam

To reserve your place in this 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)
   In case the there is no place anymore in the workshop, your payment will be refunded in full.

Any questions? Let us know via workshops@genetic-choir.org

One-Day workshop end of August?

dear Genetic Choir friends and workshoppers,

a question to you!

Is there interest for us organising a workshop-for-one-day in Amsterdam in the end of August?
This could be a stepping stone for joining the Friday sessions from September, but also a nice opportunity for everyone who is interested to do (more) Genetic Choir work but finds a weekend (which we usually do) too long.

Please let us know by sending an e-mail to workshops@genetic-choir.org

We can gather a group of ‘pioneers’ in the coming weeks who then would pay a low workshop fee in exchange for their commitment. 😀

Possible dates for finding One Day: 24, 25, 31 August or 1 September 2019.
Times would be 10:30-17:00, including lunch.

We also have the Edge of Language workshop coming up, for which still a few open places are available (6+7 July). Click here.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thomas

WhatIIIF 2019 in full swing!

Gallery

Genetic Choir & stichting Here & Now are co-organiser of WhatIIIF? Festival in Gothenborg. For an impression of Day 2, click on the post below.

Interdisciplinary Instant Composition

Dear improvisers,

the 2019 edition of WhatIIIF in Gothenborg, Sweden, is going into its second day and the work is expanding, connecting and thickening. What a wonderful, intense day.

If you happen to be close enough, come tomorrow for witnessing more of this process of exchanging about the art of interdisciplinary improvisation performance at Galleri 54 (10:00-15:00) or in the evening during the Tiny Festival where we will do the opening performance at Theater Trixter (18:00)

participant-performers-observers-researchers-editors-authors of WhatIIIF? 2019:

Tuva Hildebrand, Nathalie Fari, Marianthi Michailidou, Catharine Cary, Reinhard Gagel, Thomas Johannsen, Shelley Owen, Esmeralda Detmers, Benedikte Esperi, Alexandra Mahnke, Lisa Petersen Larsdotter  

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