Vocal Improvisation in Prenzlauer Berg: Advanced Course

We all carry a wonderful, natural instrument within us – our voice! 

The group and an encouraging atmosphere help us to overcome inhibitions and get into uninhibited playing. This allows us to connect more and more with another treasure we carry within us: our own music! 

Together with Cornelia Voss (Ganzheitliches Stimmcoaching) verschiedene Möglichkeiten, in die Welt der Stimmimprovisation in der Gruppe einzutauchen. 

Cornelia is a vocal improv companion I know very well, with a wealth of musical experience and a heart that's at least as big. 

Geschlossene Gruppe

This group sees itself as an advanced course. Through shared experience, mutual trust grows, the group offers stability and support on the individual journey to greater vocal freedom and a wider range of musical expression.

With a clear focus on the music, personal development themes always play an important role in vocal work too (How much space do I take up? Which aspects of my personality are allowed to show? Can I follow and lead?).

Depending on the participants' wishes, phases can be set with focal points from an almost inexhaustible pool of topics:

– musical roles: solo and accompaniment, vocal percussion and bass, imitation of instruments (e.g. from the trumpet to the vibraphone to the Mongolian horsehead fiddle)

– Timbre, noises and fantasy languages

– Playing with surround sound

Exploration and integration of adjacent forms of expression such as movement, dance, body percussion, and poetry/storytelling 

Harmony: singing different modes or through cadences, polyphony, etc.

Rhythms: unusual time signatures (e.g. 3/4, 5/4), varying tempos, polyrhythms, etc.

– Artistic devices: dynamics, phrasing, pauses, form

– Stylistics: from Baroque to Reggae, from Raga to Rap

Sources of inspiration: Nature, feelings, body awareness, images, objects

– Solo, Duo, Trio

– Dedicated Improvisations 

Vocal training