Long Tone Singing Workshops...
...teach listening, breathing, body awareness, and basic and extended vocal techniques in a context that can be adapted to both seasoned musicians and non-musicians alike. Workshops may vary in length from 90 minutes to a few days, and may culminate in a performance if desired. Visit the calendar for upcoming workshops, or contact Rae if you'd like to host a workshop.
Long Tone Singing Workshops, Level 1:
This workshop is suitable for musicians and non-musicians alike. We explore breath, posture, deep listening, and body-sensing techniques, combined with simple extended and basic vocal techniques. Initial practices isolate specific "workers" and "resonators" in the overall vocal apparatus that release tension from the jaw, face, tongue, and neck, and bring you into focused awareness of your intonation combined with the overall sound of the group and the space, and how and where sound resonates within your body. Depending on the length of the workshop, we perform one or more compositions from easily accessible text scores.
Workshop length: 90 minutes minimum, 3 days maximum
Long Tones & Movement Workshops:
The Stretching Time & Moving Sound workshop series focuses on the relationship between the body, the breath, and the voice. We explore ways we can alter vocal sounds with movement, the way sound feels as it travels through our bodies, and ways we can move sound through the space around us. The breath-tempo'd movements and inquiries take you into a deeply relaxed, mindful and embodied state. You'll learn and perform warm-ups and compositions taught through verbal instruction and easily accessible text scores. This workshop can be done on its own, or can build on prior experience in the introductory workshop.
Workshop length: 2 hours minimum, 2 days maximum
Long Tone Singing Workshops, Level 2:
This workshop builds on the experience of the level one workshop, and can also build on the experience of the movement workshop. Intonation is developed further through more challenging experiments. Compositions introduced are more complex, and require more advanced intonation. This workshop can be done with students of almost any level of musical experience and ability due to the gentle and focused introduction of the methods and experiments. This is a good adjunct to just intonation studies.
Workshop length: 1 day minimum, 5 days maximum
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