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Voice Musings

Voiceweavers Update, May 1st.

5/1/2020

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Sing with a Friend...

When I suspended the Voiceweaving Meetup site this month I decided to share posts here for my fellow Voiceweavers. The song below was created in 2016 with my friend, Izetta Smith, with whom I've been singing since 1971.

It has been a remarkable experience to maintain a musical relationship for almost 50 years with Izetta; we first sang together in Portland's legendary Storefront Theater. Through the years we've made time to come together and play - for that is what improvisation is at its heart - musical play through which we continue to learn and discover.
As we navigate this period of social isolation I encourage you to sing, play and explore at home - by yourself or with your partners, housemates and children. Here's a simple partner game to begin your improvisational journey.  If you click the card below, you can listen to an audio sample of this game.
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2020: Voiceweaving where you are...

2/6/2020

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​This year, as I continue work on a book about Voiceweaving, I'm inviting You to invite me to share ​Voiceweaving Workshops in your homes, at work sites or in groups that you gather with.

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As I complete the book, I want to get fresh inspiration from you, my singing tribe. So I'm offering self-hosted sessions that focus on the interests of each unique group. For example:

 • Vocal Play  - For folks who want to playfully explore with their voices, and share the experience with friends.

 • Improvisation  - For singers who want to strengthen personal and group vocal improvisation skills.

 • ChantSongs - For groups wanting to create a chant or short song about a specific topic, or just to practice creating chants.

• A Special Event - A one time song-ritual you'd like to host to honor a special occasion or person.
      

If you'd like to host a workshop, please contact me here.

Because we are living in a tumultuous time it's not unusual to feel confused and isolated. That's why I encourage you to make space in your life for laughter, play, and open, spontaneous connection with yourself, with friends, or folks you meet along the way.

Singing is one way to do that; it supports our well-being, and our expressive, creative energies. Sooo - when you feel that energy moving through you - grab a friend and take a minute to Sing, Hum, Whistle or tap out a rhythm together - just for the fun of it!

And if nobody else is there? Then sing with your wonderful self and discover the way into a new melody or a cheeky rhythm, or, just sing how it feels to be in the moment you're in!

Check out 2020 opportunities by clicking the image below.
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Spring 2019 Voiceweaving Workshops and Drop-In Sessions

2/5/2019

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A great new Workshop series is coming up this Spring, beginning on March 4th, as well as Drop-In sessions on February 18, 25, March 5th and 19th. More info HERE.
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Song of Hope-EarthSongs

5/21/2018

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​We had such fun during Spring EarthSongs Workshops at Cerimon House. And we gathered some lovely chant-songs - origins for more expansive songs-to-come. 
Below I've shared one of these co-created chants. The lyrics and music for ​this song's melodic chorus were improvised by Ginger during the workshop. Participants then learned and sang the chorus together and took turns improvising on top of the "rhythmic sections," adding melody, spoken word, or words with melody.

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April 15, 2018

2/27/2018

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Join us on April 19th for a
Spring Earth Songs Workshop!

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Co-sponsored by Cerimon House and Earth Arts NW, this is a new
Seasonal Series. EarthSong workshops will offer us a place to share
thoughts and feelings about our planet home - playfully and creatively,
then shape individual and collaborative improvisations into chant-songs
for the Earth, songs we can share within our community circles.
You'll find more information about these workshops HERE.
Selected songs will be scored and shared via digital publication.

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VoiceRaising Workshop, May 23rd, 2017

5/3/2017

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You’re invited to join me for an introduction to Voiceweaving on May 23rd. We’ll raise our voices and percolate up a brew of playful harmony – with a brief, group-composed chant-song at the end. ($10)  Join Us at Cerimon House. RSVP Here. 
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There's so much there in the ChitChat...

2/1/2017

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It’s all there, inside you, just waiting to bubble up. You are an explorer, discovering the ongoing surprise of being and knowing and engaging with life through the miraculous body you live in. And you can do it in ways that help you center in a fluid state of curiosity and connectivity.

That connection keeps us attuned to one another and in our natural state of acceptance and empathy. You don’t have to try to be accepting and empathetic, you already are. I know, it feels like it ebbs and flows, doesn’t it? Especially now when divisiveness and moments of fierce inequality ripple through our culture.

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Listen In...

6/23/2016

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We are a transforming harmony – all of us together on planet Earth. The sun rises daily and, wherever we are, we enter into the day-song. Wind rolling through meadow grass, buffeting glass-façade canyons, over frozen streams, pulsing freeways, neighbor-hood gardens, carrying the energy of change. Our actions, great and small, are added in to the great song.

Like a river flooding its banks, nightly news is overflowing with the troubles of the world. We are inundated with images, acts and sounds of war, earth in peril, communities living on the edge.

​Yet here we are, in the age of the possible. Life is in constant motion and change is inevitable. As we listen to what is and what is needed, we can find a place to be of use each day. But where is that? That place where we are grounded, focused on engaging with – rather than reacting to – change. Change that leans forward through actions that harmonize with healing the world.


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TRANSLATIONS - A Sound Practice

5/18/2016

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This game is for the Voiceweaving meet-up group and for you too, if you like to play vocally.
Here’s a little exercise you can practice as it strikes your fancy. It’s called TRANSLATIONS.

It’s a very simple practice, and one that’s quite engaging. It’s all about listening, tuning in and getting comfortable sounding out what you sense. While doing that, you’re also adding to your personal sound vocabularies.
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Here’s why I like this exercise. It helps me connect with perceptions and responses I may not be aware of, or, those that make me feel something I try to ignore like – irritation, or moments of light I’m too preoccupied to notice.
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Walking our dog, a little elderly Cairn Terrier, is an experience filled with erratic rhythm. We walk 10 paces then he stops to sniff and pee.  We walk 4 more, then it's sniff, stop, sniff, stop. Look around. Walk. Walk. Stop...

​What an incredible opportunity to work on rhythm. During a 30-minute walk I can explore sense and feeling through sound, shaping rhythms as we go. Irritation melts and I have much more fun on our sniff and pee walks.


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    Musings on Life,
    Vocal Improv and the transformative
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    An inner Muse nudges me to nuzzle up to the flowing energy inside... to play, listen and explore. So...I do. I invite you to do it too.

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