Singing & Vocal Improvisation for Wellbeing
Create, explore, embody and learn how to free your voice.
Course details
What you will learn
- Different approaches to using the breath as a foundation for voice
- How to activate the body and find the balance of energy and softness needed for singing
- The relationship between breath and movement. Learning to notice changes in alignment, breathing patterns and inner space
- The transition from breath to sound to warm up and naturally connect with your innate vocal energy
- Explore vocal expression and creativity through a range of sounds
- Discover the voice’s possibilities as a percussion instrument as well as a melodic one, and the joy and power in the rhythm of the whole body.
- Explore different forms of invented language to find your own creative vocabulary.
- Learn to respond to musical ideas in order to imitate, recreate and support a song.
- Expand your vocal palette and range as well as your musical creativity
- Try some improvised chants with music from around the world.
- Improvise your own melodies, follow your instinct and discover your vocal essence
About the course
Discover your vocal essence with embodied improvisational practices to enhance your creativity and wellbeing.
More information
Singing and Improvisation is all about letting your creativity flow and exploring your voice and body in a safe space, at your own pace. This is not a singing ‘method’ but rather a guide for your exploration. You don’t need to be ‘a good singer’ or any kind of singer at all! You can adapt everything to the condition of your voice and ‘sing’ as much or as little as you wish. The songs and looper files provided can be used in a variety of ways – sing along with Guillermo, sing in response, harmonise, improvise on top or even add percussive sounds from your environment.
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Course content
Module 1
Introduction
Beginning with the Breath
Breath & Movement: activating your singing instrument
From Breath to Sound
If You Can Talk, You Can Sing!
Humming into Long Vowels
Playing with Sound: expression & energy in the voice
Rhythm in the Body: clapping & stepping in time
Rhythm in the Mouth: exploring vocal percussion
Sing with Me I
Sound Landscapes & Invented Language
Sing with Me II
Sing with Me III
Final Thoughts and a Song of Courage
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Guillermo
Guillermo is a singer, guitarist, vocal improviser and educator from Buenos Aires. Having studied with some of the most outstanding vocal improvisors in the world, he is now one of the leading Circle Singing and Collaborative Vocal Improvisation facilitators in Europe. He also holds a MMUs with Distinction in Ethnomusicology from SOAS, and performs regularly as a vocalist with The London Tango Orchestra, Sexteto Cristal and Cuarteto Rotterdam.
