Workshop Phil Minton
Monday, March 10th, 2008
22nd, 23th and 24th of february in Tou Scène
In a 3 days workshop with a group of 20 singers we made a ‘Feral Choir’. In this workshop we used our voice in a very spontanious, inventive and sometimes extreme way. It sounds like you have to be very brave to try this, but it came very spontanious. We laughed a lot, talked, made jokes together and the most important thing; most of the time we improvised. Improvising with sounds, timbre, imagination,… without scores, without thinking, very spontanious but while listening to eachother and improvising with eachother. By exercices Phil Minton encouraged us to explore our voice and experimate with a new way of using our voice. On sunday evening we showed the result of that 3 days on a concert. Most of the performance was improvised and the result, the sounds, music we made together on that moment was great, full of energy, colours, fantasy,…
