CMS November 16 Workshops with Shara Lunon & Miriam Elhajli

A day of improvisation workshops from CMS on November 16th located at Ibeam in Brooklyn with LUMINARY ARTISTS! Workshops are open to musicians of all backgrounds & ages. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

Backline provided (drum set, piano, PA, guitar amps, bass amps) and support with amplification if necessary! Acoustic instruments/voices of course super welcome!

12-2pm

Breathing Room is a workshop for anyone who wants to reclaim the body through sound. Beginning with the breath, the root of both vocal health and self-regulation, we will unlearn shallow habits and reconnect with the diaphragm as a source of power. From there, we’ll explore breath as sound, pushing past genre and tradition to treat the voice as a raw instrument: percussive, noisy, fragile, fierce. No singing background is required. Through improvisation, group resonance, and collective chants, participants will discover how breath and voice can become tools of survival, healing, and refusal. This is not about sounding “pretty.” It’s about sounding free.

Bio

Shara Lunon is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist, musician, and curator whose work spans sound, poetry, visual art, and community practice. Rooted in the legacy of the underground, she approaches the voice as both instrument and vessel for memory, storytelling, and transformation. Her practice thrives where chaos meets clarity, blending improvisation, electronics, and found materials to explore identity, care, and renewal. Shara is the founder of Heavy Florals, a series for experimental Black and Brown artists, and has collaborated with Ches Smith, Lesley Mok, Luke Stewart, Shahzad Ismaily, and Laura Cocks. She is currently developing her solo work alongside collaborative projects with History Dog and her punk band Blasé.

3-5pm

the first know w(rite)r was a womb-man

exploring explosive screams + (art)ices of (arch)iving
the first sound that enters space through our newborn body is a scream -with this premise, how can we use the primordial scream to continuously give birth?we will explore the texture of screaming / cream / screensthrough our voice and feet and belly button and entire bodiesby improvising over Enheduanna's temple hymns +medieval andalusian songs and ancient feminist ballads.
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miriam elhajli is a singer-improviser-musicologist-writer.
she works at the association for cultural equity as a researcher& as a teacher at citylore, a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting the oral histories of nyc.

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