THE WORLD IS SOUND Spring Intensive Berlin
Schedule
Mon, 05 May, 2025 at 10:00 am to Fri, 09 May, 2025 at 02:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
studio ABADA | Berlin, BE
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https://www.the-world-is-sound.com/may-intensive-alessioEMBODIED VOICE FLOW
Spring Intensive with Alessio Castellacci
Berlin | 5-9 May 2025
The workshop consists of:
- 5 days
- 20 hours study
- individual mentoring | group process
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EMBODIED VOICE FLOW is a vocal-physical process which invites you to re-discover an intimate and empowered relationship with the primal voice and its profound sensitivity, through a series of somatic investigations on deep listening, embodied vocality, musical instinct. Each session opens a space to connect with the pleasure of creating music with our breath, voice, mouth, body, and with our innate instinct for expression and connection through sound. We combine these practices to create different forms of vocal improvisation whilst grounding within presence and awareness, expressing our vital creativity through sound and movement, and listening with the whole body at the same time we start to cultivate the art of living in the present moment. The overall trajectory of each session follows a designed progression from the functional aspects of voice and body (breath anatomy, elements of acoustics and phonetics) to the realm of improvised musical flow - the ‘music of the now’.
The core practices of the Embodied Voice Flow are:
> Deep listening: the meditative practice of receiving sound in its depths through the body, unconditional hearing as a gateway to our consciousness.
> Somatic experience: experiencing one’s voice and body as an integrated whole, dialoguing with the vibrational nature of your voice.
> Pulsing/tuning: working with spontaneous pulsations and melodies as a way to experiencing music in a playful, intimate, naked sense; connecting with your creative source by surrendering into the music of the moment.
> Collaborative Vocal Improvisation: organising emerging percussive-melodic patterns in a collective musical flow within improvised sound journeys.
> Circle Songs
In the last part of the session we open the Circle Songs - improvised choral songs based on the repetition of simple vocal modules and collective rhythmical entrainment. This is a moment of celebration and togetherness, of witnessing together music taking shape through a circular process of repetition, layering, refinement, transformation, osmosis, friction, story telling, individuality and connectivity. Each Circle Song is a river which we float upon, following its flow all the way through to see where it leads us.
During the program you are invited to play and experiment with different techniques and approaches:
- somatic approaches to perception, movement and relationship with others through voice (anatomical study of breath and voice / somatic explorations with guided imagery / Deep Listening meditations / hands-on work in partners)
- principles of Collaborative Vocal Improvisation and Circlesinging (different approaches to generating grooves, melodic phrasing, counterpoints, simple harmonies etc)
- development of personal and group research (through exercises of self-reflection and group feedback)
The workshop is open to all levels!
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FEE: SLIDING SCALE 290-360€
Choose your fee according to your own means, based on self assessment (suggested fee 320-350€)
RETURNING PARTICIPANTS : 250€
For participants who have joined previously a TWIS intensive or retreat with Alessio
More info: https://www.the-world-is-sound.com/may-intensive-alessio
▼The Intensives have a limited amount of participants, each application will be received and confirmed until reaching a full group, after that we will not be able to accept applications anymore. Apply soon to secure your spot.
For questions contact Alessio at info@the-world-is-sound.com
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Where is it happening?
studio ABADA, Berlin, GermanyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
