regular news about vocal instant composition ensemble Genetic Choir
hi everybody,
beginning of next month, we enter a new season of Genetic Choir vocal music making with the workshop in Amsterdam on
3 places still available as we speak.
Times are 10:00-17:00 on both Saturday and Sunday, workshop fee is 110,- Euro excl. BTW / 133,10 total.
Write us a message through the contact page if you would like to join.
In collaboration with Anna Orlikowska, who is presenting her work “The Weaving” tomorrow at the Rietveld Academy in the big end-of-year exhibition, the Genetic Choir will perform a live-sound-installation inspired on her work, that is moving through the semi-public spaces of the academy building: staircases, corridors, elevators…
Address: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Frederik Roeskestraat 96, 1076 ED Amsterdam
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3rd, 2013
We will start at 16:30. You are very welcome.
And of course there is much more to see and hear at the Rietveld tomorrow…
After yesterdays long and beautiful night with short, strange prose in Utrecht, we are looking forward to our Tabula Rasa concert, on Wednesday night in Amsterdam!
Tabula Rasapresents on
Wednesday, 26th of June 2013 at 21:00
(doors open around 20:00)
with special guests: Marije Nie (tap) and Marieke Franssen (flute)
Genetic Choir singers on the night: Yinske Silva, Thomas Johannsen, Petra Pieck, Peter Huber, Monica Coronado, Moira Mirck, Marjolijn Roeleveld, Jeannette Huizinga, Hans Paape, Emiel Zonneveld, Amazone Nativel
and
all the way from the UK !
http://www.ricardotejero.com / http://www.dominiclash.co.uk
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Tabula Rasa: Improvised Music @ Maarten Luther Kerk – basement
WEDNESDAY, June 26th 2013 – 21:00
Maarten Luther Kerk, Dintelstraat 134, Amsterdam
Free Entrance, Donations Welcomed (beer is cheap!)
I am a week late with posting this month’s musical offering of the Genetic Choir… Busy with creating the first Genetic Choir CD (!) which will be available at our concerts on 22nd and 26th of June. But for now: Listen below to this small, unassuming gem from our session archives.
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 identities with each other, transforming to totally different music or ending in beautiful silences.
In this Genetic Choir workshop, we look at how we use melodies in improvisation singing. Voice work and rhythm will feature along the way, but the focus is on weaving melodies and story. How do you go about it, as an improvisation singer? How do you make it personal and how does ‘meaning’ evolve? But also: how do you work together with other singers?
The Genetic Choir approach ensures that you don’t need any particular background to be able to join this workshop. Any level of experience and/or musical styles are welcome.
Genetic Choir workshop – Melody Makers
29th & 30th of June 2013 – informatie in het Nederlands, klik hier
10:00-17:00 both days – 110,- Euro (excl. VAT)
More information and inscription: Send a message through the form below.
To prove that we can also end up with a slightly more mainstream a capella sound when singing from nothing, listen to this piece that appeared as the opening composition of a concert we did last summer. (Although ‘mainstream a capella people’ will probably still find this music rather curious, I believe. Oh sweet relativity!)
The Genetic Choir is publishing every first day of the month a new composition, drawn from our previous concerts and performances. Have a look at all the other music on our Audio Page.
If you are interested to experience being part of the choir and how this type of music is being created, there is an open Genetic Choir workshop planned on
with the theme “Melody Makers”. Click here for more information.
