OLD SONGS, NEW SONGS
Coming weekend, we will wrestle with singing old songs and creating new ones…!
17+18 JANUARY 2015 – OLD SONGS, NEW SONG
The two-day session will combine our knowledge of instant composition with the phenomena/skill of “singing a song” and melt it together in one weekend. 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 (a song is more than an abstract sound-carpet). And those who like to work with their existing song will be taken on journeys of non-idiomatic ensemble improvisations with it. 🙂
The workshop brings together all the experience the Genetic Choir has gathered earlier in Melody Makers, the Well-known-song workshops and the research on Phrasing.
“The Art of Change” in the Akoesticum
On the 6th of November 2014, there will be an introduction to the Genetic Choir method in the Akoesticum in Ede (NL). This workshop is part of a 2-day conference “De Kunst van Veranderen” (“the art of change”), which addresses the current challenges and interests of musicians and art makers when working either community-based, with new working methods or with unusual audiences.
Thomas will give a workshop/lecture about the Genetic Choir in the afternoon between 3 and 4:30.
Also the rest of the conference is very much worth you attention (Dutch language, though). Look for the whole program here.
Genetic Choir intro workshop 14 september
There are a few places left for the intro workshop of this beginning season:
Friday, 14 September – 10:00 to 17:00 – Amsterdam
More info, click here
Costs: 60 Euro + VAT 19% (71,40 Euro)
Genetic Choir sessions October + December
Hi there,
this Sunday is another Genetic Choir session, open to all singers from the Genetic Choir pool of soundmakers.
Title of the session: THE SAME
Inspired by my work at the moment around the theme ‘Doppelgänger’, we will look at the fantastically weird ways in which things can be “one and the same” in voice improvisation. I am totally hooked at the moment to this phenomenon. It’s the evil twin of the copy work we apply more often, and actually points at a mysterious connection where two (or more) voices that are on the surface not at all identical in what they are doing can be very much “the same” or doubles of each other. Creepy, he?
Explore it with me next Sunday,
2 October 2011 from 13:30-17:30
Place: Circuswerkplaats Boost
After that, the next session will be on 4 December 2011, 13:30-17:30 at Studio Wladiwostok (Azartplein, Amsterdam)
see you on Sunday,
Thomas
The photo is courtesy of Petr Břinčil, from Prague. See here his home page: www.onekissfree.cz
Genetic Choir on Czech Radio – Vltava
Tomorrow at 15:00, Thomas Johannsen will be interviewed about the Genetic Choir in the cultural programme ‘Mozaika’ on Czech National Radio Channel ‘Vltava’. If you want, you can stream the broadcast on your computer via their website: www.rozhlas.cz/mozaika***
The interview will be about Instant Vocal Composition and some Genetic Choir recordings will be played during the programme. This all because of the Genetic Choir workshop in Prague this weekend, at hlasohled.cz!
***The interview has been recorded and is now online: http://www.rozhlas.cz/mozaika/hoste/_zprava/thomas-johannsen-a-ridina-ahmedova-hlasohled–943054
Instant Composition Workshop
Welcome to 2011!
The regular sessions of the Genetic Choir keep going, but there is also a special workshop coming up, open to any singers with some decent improvisation experience:
The Genetic Chamber Choir
a 6-part workshop: 3 full days and 3 evenings within a month, including performance – February 23rd to March 24th 2011 – Amsterdam
We we will go deeply into all the aspects of vocal instant composition: Singing solo, duet, trio, creating long-spun symphonies and exhilarating rythms. Heating up material, letting it explode. Recycle it later. Subtelties of copying, counterpointing, absorbing and transforming. We will look more extensively into styles, textures, structures, story and how to use and mix all this in a vocal ensemble where nobody has the control.
You should be an experienced improvisation singer to join this workshop.
Click here for more information and how to apply.
Last chance to join the Choir this Sunday
hi there,
if you consider joining the Genetic Choir, the coming Sunday (19th of September 2010) is your chance to get to know the way we are working, and – if you like it – join the Choir for the coming season.
Look here for the workshop information.
Ater this Sunday, the next Open Workshop will be in September 2011.
If you want to hear about the concerts, other workshops, and the occasional informal invitation to come and listen to us during one of our sessions, sign up to this blog (see ‘Follow the Genetic Choir’ on the right) – we’ll keep you posted!
See you around!
Thomas
