Noisy Women Present join forces with Phil Minton’s Almost Instant Feral Choir for an evening of radical improvised music.
Doors 7pm
Tickets £8-12
The Feral Choir project is a series of vocal workshops with non-professionals, leading up to performances. It originated in the late 1980’s when I was asked to do some workshops with ‘non-singers’ in the Musik Centrum Stockholm. The success of these led me to develop the idea further. The choir consists of a three day workshop and performance, not only for singers but for anyone who takes a delight in the freedom to experiment. I encourage participants to take a vocal leap and explore all vocal possibilities through exercises and improvisations, over the workshop period, leading to a concert.
Feral Choir workshops and performances have subsequently been held in many different places around the world including Berlin, Centre for Performance Research Cardiff, Musickzentrum Munich, Tokyo, Angelica Bologna, City Festival Lausanne, Institute for Living Voice Antwerp, Baltimore, Nante, Brest, Oxford, Paris, Oakland, Melbourne, St. Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bristol, Pau, Florence, Le Man, Trondheim, Rotterdam, Ghent, Zurich, Nancy Vandoeuvre, Poitiers, London, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Brugge, Strasbourg, and Aberystwyth.
Some of the choirs have been made up of professionals, sometimes actors and musicians, but many have been amateur groups with no previous musical interest or experience. These have been particularly rewarding, as has the work with teenagers in Belgium and Holland, and the responses from the participants have been overwhelmingly positive.
www.philminton.co.uk
The Noisy Women Present is a multi-disciplinary creative hub championing diversity and collective virtuosity. Our concerts, workshops and events embrace improvised and experimental music, movement, art and poetry. We believe in individual expression as part of a collaborative, liberating experience.
In 2024 TNWP were awarded a fellowship by the Serpentine Gallery as part of its Support Structures for Support Structures programme. These are awarded to artists at the forefront of social practice, community practice and collaborative working.
Our associated ensemble, the Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra, explores these ideals on a grander scale, and welcomes performers with neuro-diversity and learning differences.
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