WEEKEND WORKSHOP :: 14 HOURS :: MADRID :: NUMBER OF PLACES reduced depending on current legislation. Maximum of 8 PARTICIPANTS

VOICING AN OPEN SECRET… VOICING, AN OPEN SECRET

Singing away your ills

Aimed at all types of participants
Not necessarily music or voice professionals
NUMBER OF PLACES: reduced depending on current legislation. Maximum of 8 PLACES

PRESENTATION

The voice reaches much farther than we might imagine. Over 200 muscles and body parts are involved in phonation.

The voice can be an inexhaustible source of energy, self-confidence, imagination and authenticity a wellspring of physical and mental health for anyone who works consciously with it.

From a Western perspective, this workshop provides resources from millenary Eastern cultures, combining:

vocal technique, correct posture and breathing, training in deep listening, yoga and sonic meditation;

all seasoned with playfulness, a touch of humor and sound poetry focused on the idea of

the conscious voice,

the free voice,

The voice as a means of strengthening,

enriching and harmonizing the life processes of each person… in their own unique way.

Be what you are, says Ramana Maharshi.

And that is the question.

CONTENTS

• The focus of these Workshops is fundamentally practical and they include a general theoretical and technical introduction.
• The difference between the COURSES (which combine theory, technique and practice and in which skills related to various aspects of the vocal tract are provided), and the WORKSHOPS, is that in the latter the subjects are not dealt with in great depth, nor are participants provided with workout routines and sets of exercises for mastering vocal tract mechanisms or specific muscular development. However, In each individual presentation and in the general introduction, technical questions do indeed appear, are outlined and orientation is given.
• The first session of the workshop provides a general theoretical-technical introduction so that when technical matters are broached subsequently during individual interventions, participants will be familiar with them and find them helpful for their future personal practice.
• Participants will sing together in group exercises and improvisations following a set of precise guidelines provided by the teacher.
• Individual attention will be given to the participants who wish for it. Each of them will perform a song (either traditional or original), a text or an individual vocal rendition in order to raise questions about their personal interests in relation to their vocal practice or to a work already in process.
• The effect that derives from the attention that the other students pay to the solo presentations while observing and taking notes of the orientation, guidelines and tips that the teacher gives to the “soloist”,  is very significant.
• Each performance will be re-worked by the teacher who will point out the key factors to which each student should pay particular attention (posture, vocal gesture, breathing, articulation, tuning, resonators, etc.). In this manner, students will be able to realize which areas of technique they need to pursue further, how they may optimize their vocal resources and their conceptual and performative approaches in their individual presentations.

AIMED AT

• The workshops are aimed at people interested in a mindful and unprejudiced vocal practice, whether for the mere pleasure of singing, exploring and experimenting with the voice in order to enrich the creative or vital process, as well as for an interest focused on professional, theatrical, performative, poetic or pedagogical musical practice.

• Group numbers will be limited in order to facilitate both individual and group work.

• The workshop is open to all levels of training or vocal experience.

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