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Performing and Recording Vocal Improvisation


  • Moor Imagination Center Buckfastleigh UK (map)

This is for advanced students, extremely experienced students, and alumni.

We gather for 4 days, improvise, sing and support one another.

On the Tuesday we drop in and sing. Tuesday night we have a Wildlings Cabaret.

On the Wednesday we have a 4 hour recording session there in MIC, and then debrief it.

On the Thursday night we have a public show there at MIC.

On the Friday we debrief it, support one another, do sound healing and say farewell.

How do we stay in our ease, flow and authenticity when there is an audience, a microphone, or a video camera?

How do we stay connected to the improvisational void in the intensity of performance and recording?

What is performance? What are our values around performance?

Are we there to entertain and impress people?

Are we there to listen to our audience and sing them back to themselves? Bring our own humanity so that they can love theirs, and one anothers’? Make them listen to us all night or invite their voices to make the music with us? Is it about us being above them, or with them?

We’ll unpack it all. We can realise we all have different values about it. That’s ok.

This is for people who have already been on an improvisation journey for years, have a well established personal and peer practice, and are curious to be supported in taking the next step in sharing the artform you love with a wider audience.

The whole group will have access to the audio and video files for a year, and have the rights to use it publicly if you have permission from everyone else visible in it. In that time you can download the files and keep them in your own location for longer term storage.

We will work with a professional mobile sound engineer and videographer.

The show will be ticketed and the ticket income will be a fundraiser for up to 3 causes we decide on together.

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