A collaborative live performance at The Sun at Night integrating recordings created that day during the Site Singing workshop at St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, on the 23rd April 2017.
Video:
vimeo.com/214973576
Blog entry:
sitesinging.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/2182/
Pre-workshop outline of the session:
Site Singing vocal session for The Moon Choir
Guided by Ellen Southern
Ellen Southern will be bringing her field-recording based project, Site Singing, to the Moon Choir, for the next step in the development of a new vocal live work.
Following on from recent live debut at The Arnolfini, Bristol, this workshop will be the latest testing ground of a new experimental vocal work in-progress. Participating singers will work directly with sound, vocal elements and approaches developed through solo field trips to heritage sites in the South West. They will be encouraged to adventurously explore their voices, while fully utilising the acoustic characteristics of the space as an instuement, to share in generating new material toward a new experimental live work in-the-making.
This will be a practice-based session, where live work and recordings (both digital and analogue) will be layered, treated and played back as we go. Participants will also be invited to discuss the work while being able to view and physically handle maps, photographs and drawings created over the course of the project so far. We will present a rush or ‘scratch’ style performance, of the resulting material for the Sun At Night evening session.
A hint of what to expect? Think spatial sound, immersive voices, sonic layering, unexpected harmonies, microtones and harmonics, combinations of live and recorded voices, some amplified treatments and effects, distance and proximity, interesting vocal dissonances and textures, improvisation and exploration.