Sonic choir for non-singers | Greg Gilg

The Great Feedback Choral experimental situations

• 1. Foundation, history • 2. Intentions, philosophy • 3. Introduction example : singing and learning languages • 4. Sounding a moment : sonic creations / performances • 5. Territory action • 6. Health, handicap, education • 7. specific tools

Story - background Mom’s choir

Mixing people / art forms / traditions/ learn the job • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Generosity !!

Street theatre (Ici-même) Rockn’roll Punk Play another show after the show. Play all the time. 200 concerts a year. Play for everybody everywhere.

Craftsmen Seduction Occupying public space Visual arts, Film, Theatre, Dance Past / nostalgy (street / circus) & modernity Poetry MUSIC AS AN ART BRUT Solo composition

Live Discover Learn Meet people Travel the world Make mistakes

What’s essential ?

Time for a change

What’s the heart of the question ?

This thing that is happening between the stage and the public.

This moment of real time.

I decide to settle down in between and to become what I am : A musician of moments.

A musician of real time.

A social worker.

A researcher and experimentator musically and socially.

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Schools Teenagers Elderly Psychatric hospitals Urban projects Architects Autists Widows Sociologists Music schools Choirs Musicians Villages Migrants Theatres Nurses Alphabetisation centres Social workers Swimming pools Kids Conservatory Paris philarmony Music festivals

Let’s sing !!

Intentions / Philosophy • • • • • • • •

Make things seriously, don’t take things seriously Singing (together) : a matter of presence, of real time It’s good to have rules Imperfection and mistakes are beautiful Everybody is an artist, everyone is a composer Risk in art is painless, never dangerous.

Playing is the adequate verb for the musical activity Never bored children can create tirelessly. We are all children.

• Doing things together now is what happens for real • In complexity there is truth and beauty.

• Performance manifesto : no stage and / or active public

Example : learning a foreign language • • • • • •

Listen Repeat and listen The audio-phonatory loop Relate and discover Try and make mistakes Practise : combinated ear and mouth gymnastics

Sounding a moment creations / performances • Blind experiences – A door to sonic emotion : the vibrating thrill of clusters (open mouth magic), natural and optimal 3D, surprise, relation.

– Sonic blind walks (Malraux) – Compositions for blind public

• Sounding a space

– landscape readings

– Exceptional acoustics (9’37)

- Art readings

- Custom events

- Sonic arrangement for pop / rock I didn’t manage to find the video but it was great.

Territory action :

Participative events public space occupation •

Example : Loriol

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Custom events (ex : french / german teenagers) Singing under the bridges Take out your choir !

Listening walks

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The village’s dance by the villagers Concerts chez Fête de la musique Alphabetisation Foyer logement Social services (youth, children) Music school Associations, administration.

Health / handicap / education • • • • • • •

Listening workshops for kids (or not) « Classic » music creative workshops Widows Autists Languages Psychatric institutions Singing and listening tools for social workers and nurses

Le jeu vocal – Guy Reibel

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXPBb3tl eQ8

Questions ?

• Motivating people : a great challenge • Conducting : many options / necessary minimalism • Fixed form vs real time • Communication issue