WORKSHOPS


Phonopoetica
sound + poetry as intermedia practice

Week 1: Methods of vocal improvisation
Week 2: From page to sound
Week 3: Transcription as a form of writing
Week 4: Vocal characters
Week 5: Polyvocality and Vocal Ensemble
Week 6: Final works

Meeting online; 6-weeks long, 1 session per week. Six students maximum.
Monday 6-8pm; November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, December 7
250€ total payment, deposit possible

Open to new and previous students

Course description:
A generative, interdisciplinary workshop for engaging language as a sonic material. Open to performers, writers and novices. With a focus on the voice and improvisation, students will finish the workshop with a strong sense of process and breadth of experimentation when approaching language and speech. We will read and listen to Chris Mann, Leslie Scalapino, Thalia Field, and JJJJJerome Ellis among other writers and performers. For all who are drawn to the voice as material for scripts, scores, and stanzas – who wish writing to be improvisational and performance to be poetry.

We will engage and produce materials in and outside of class meetings, where focus will be on production and exploration rather than critique. At the end of the class, there will be a final work produced.

Contact Adrienne Herr for more information or to sign-up at nherrr@gmail.com



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