When you already belong to a community, have you ever thought that perhaps you know everyone you need to know and there is no need to know more people? Or you believe you need to meet many more people in order to have access to either fun activities, network more, have more friends or access READ MORE
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FOOD, VOICE AND RISKS…WITH MOISES PÉREZ
Moisés Pérez is one of the founders of MuOm, the Barcelona overtone singing choir, very unique and beautiful music project that visited London last 25th and 26th July. They use techniques such as “overtone singing” and “throat singing”, that come from Tuva, Mongolia, Tibet and also the Xhosa people in South Africa. Moisés is the READ MORE
MuOM, BARCELONA HARMONIC SINGING CHOIR
And now for something completely different, I want to speak about harmonic singing. Also known as overtone singing, is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the sounds created as air travels from the lungs, passing the vocal folds and out of the lips to produce a melody. This way the singer can READ MORE
Silence vs talking in the Inclusive Choir
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1498), Florentine philosopher wrote a wonderful sentence: “Music is nothing more than a Decoration of Silence”. What a wonderful statement. Shall we take it to the choir? Undoubtedly silence is in many ways a pre condition for music making. In silence we concentrate, in silence we can really listen… so that we realize READ MORE
Singing with no words
Singing in harmony is lovely… but so it is playing with sound. To allow ourselves to stop and listen to the sound of the voices that are together, not worrying about being or not in a particular “tune”, and being able to pay attention to this cluster of sounds, and understand that it’s also a READ MORE
Are you in touch?
There is something that struck me since I have been conducting choirs here in UK. That is the fact that some people gave me, among other kinds of positive and most interesting feedback, comments about “surprising” and “unusual” pedagogy. They were referring to touch. I remember that around when I was first starting my voice READ MORE
How do we want our choirs?
We want our choirs to be inclusive.- a choir for everybody who wants to join regardless of how people consider that they can sing or not. Even people who consider themselves to be “tone deaf” has proved considerable improvement with practice, relaxation, enjoyment and lack of judgement. I even had students in the past who READ MORE
Primal Singing as Workshops for Wellbeing
It was then when I was offered the opportunity to do my first workshops in Primal Singing. As before, I started in Yoga centres, offering this technique as ‘mindful singing’, and getting a wonderful group of people willing to sing and express themselves. I taught at the Yavanna Centre and at the Allegro Spacio, both READ MORE