We are excited to have planned Mouthful Morsels: a series of Creative Voice sessions you can participate in via Zoom.

Mouthful Morsels will take place 7-9 pm on the 3rd Friday of each month:

  • 17th July - Lakes Meditations - workshop with live recorded improvisation, led by Dave

  • 21st August - led by Sharon

  • 18th September - led by Katherine

  • 16th October - led by Bex

All four Mouthfuls will be part of each session, where one of us will take the lead, facilitating a range of creative vocal processes including improvisation, exploring your own sound, experiencing your voice in different kinds of harmonic and rhythmic structures, collective song-making and...whatever else we discover in the co-creative spirit that is The Mouthful Way.

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We'd love to see you at any or all of these, and with any of your singing friends you think might like to come and play voices with us!

17th July - Lakes Meditations

A live group improvisation session to record parts for Lakes Meditations, Dave’s new album of ambient music featuring Mouthful and guest collaborators.

In this session, Mouthful and anyone else who would like to contribute their voice to the album will be part of an improvised performance, where everyone will record themselves individually but at the same time, and then send Dave their recordings which he'll weave into the final mix.

A demo version of the whole album is available to view on Youtube (see above).

In the workshop, we’ll record a mass vocal improvisation for the final section of the piece ( the section from c. 46 mins. to c. 54 mins. ) The only instructions are to start on an ‘oo’ and to finish on pure breath. What you do in between is up to you, but the overall effect is that of relaxation, so minimal is good!

It’s an experiment with improvising together when we can’t hear what everyone else is doing, so you just need to trust your instincts. Everyone is welcome to participate, as long as you can set up a reasonable means of obtaining a clean recording, which could be on your phone or a computer, no studio necessary.

Test Your recording Set-up

If you want to test your recording set-up beforehand, Dave is offering a free tech check-in at 6.30pm before regular weekly choirs on 13th 14th and 15th July:

  • Monday 13th before Sing Owt! (Zoom Meeting ID 890 056 717)

  • Tuesday 14th before Sing In! (Zoom Meeting ID 732 747 924)

  • Wednesday 15th before Mouthful Voices (Zoom Meeting ID 484 919 009)

Fees

Suggested fees for each workshop are on a sliding scale from £10 - £3 depending on your circumstances. We’re happy to offer these workshops free to people currently experiencing financial hardship. Click below to pay for a session, or multiple sessions:

 

If you can’t get the widget above to work, you can also pay by BACS to:

·      'Harmony Associates' Co-op Bank account

·      Sort Code 08-92-99

·      Account No. 65559790.

PLEASE use your name in your payment reference so we know who it's from, and also send us an email to say you've paid so we can check we've received it ok.