"He's the Caruso of the avant-garde" [High Performance]
"Alien love-songs meet Bo Diddley, John Coltrane
and Maria Callas- that's one way of describing a
David Moss concert." [The Village Voice]
“The singer David Moss is cantorial, David
Byrne-ish, Beat-cool, raving post-Berio in the mad gabble of the city.”
[Real Time Magazine, Australia]more quotes
Artistic Director: David
Moss Producer: Muziektheater
Transparant, Antwerp
THE ILV
The Institute for Living Voice is an international
center for singing: offering workshops, concerts,
discussions, and special events focused on singing.
It is open to anyone who is interested in the
human voice: professional singers and performers,
artists, actors, choreographers, dancers, theater
directors, composers, musicians, students, non-professional
singers, students, young people, melomaniacs.
HISTORY
The ILV was conceived by David Moss, and is a
collaborative project co-founded by Muziektheater
Transparant and David Moss. Muziektheater Transparant
is the producer of the ILV sessions; David Moss
is the artistic director. Discussions began in
August 1999, in Salzburg, Austria, between Moss
and Guy Coolen, Director of Muziektheater Transparant.
The first 4-year grant from the Vlaams Cultuur
Minsitry was received in late 2000.
The ILV presented its first session in September
2001 in Gent, Belgium; since then it has presented
eight sessions in seven cities. Each session is
produced in collaboration with a partner institution:
Session #1: Sept. 2001: Gent;
Vooruit Cultuur Centrum
Session #2: April 2002: Bruges;
Bruges 02 Cultural Capitol & Cultuurcentrum
Bruges
Session #3: Nov. 2002: Antwerp;
DeSingel & Antwerpen Conservatory of Music
Session #4: June 2003: Marseille:
Montevideo & GRIM
Session #5: June 2004: Amsterdam:
The Holland Festival
Session #6: Oct. 2004: Melbourne,
Australia: The Melbourne Festival & Chamber
Made
Session #7: March 2005: Berlin,
Germany: Maerz Musik Festival
Session #8: Feb. 2006: Gent:
Vooruit Cultuur Centrum
The ILV will begin its 2nd four year plan in
fall 2006 with renewed support from the Vlaams
Cultuur Ministry. Future sessions are in planning
for Basel, Florence, Marseille, Paris, Albuquerque
(New Mexico, USA), Rotterdam.
CONTACTS:
The ILV is a project of Muziektheater Transparant,
Antwerp, supported by the Vlaams Culture Ministry.
Contact:Nathalie
de Boelpaep, practical coordinator ILV, at Muziektheater
Transparant
The ILV is an "Exploratory",
not a conservatory:
It is a home for the exploration of the human
voice in all its manifestations: classical, opera,
jazz, experimental, alternative rock, new pop,
world music, folk, traditional, blues, sacred
and profane. Each session offers 5-7 different
workshop experiences, giving participants the
chance to mix and measure the lively variety of
contemporary vocal music for themselves. At the
ILV, master-singers and students from around the
world meet, sing together, exchange ideas about
the human voice, hear each other's voices in concert
and plan projects for the future.
The ILV is:
Tran Quanh Hai, Cheryl Barker, Susannah Self,
Catherine Jauniaux, Ustad Shagan, Diamanda Galas,
David Moss, Meredith Monk, Lydia Lunch, Phil Minton,
Koichi Makigami, Omar Ebrahim, Joan La Barbara,
Greetje Bijma, Gidon Saks, Jaap Blonk, Amelia
Cuni, Catherine Delasalle, Valerie Marestin, Miriam
Palma, Hilliard Ensemble, Mahotella Queens, Nona
Hendryx, Viviane De Muynck, Han Buhrs, Ronald
Klekamp, STEIM, Vocaal Laboratorium, Heiner Goebbels,
Wim Henderickx, Sainkho Namtchylak, Cristina Branco,
Melissa Madden Grey, Martyn Jacques, Jodelklub
am Albis, Kang Kwon Soon, Nitin Sawhney, Richard
Frankland, Arto Lindsay, Nicholas Isherwood, Andrew
Watts, Chris Mann, Madalena Bernardes, Michiko
Hirayama, Clemens Risi, and many more to come…..
Over 60 world renowned singers, performers, composers,
from 13 countries representing 16 vocal "genres".
The ILV is a meeting
place:
Wherever our "meeting place" is, things
happen:
Diamanda Galas leads her students
into the underground chamber of a medieval castle
in Gent to "find their screams".
Nona Hendryx invites her workshop
on stage at the Paradiso to sing with her group.
Ustad Shagan and his family
of musicians teach Pakistani religious music
to five European woman at the Vooruit Art Center.
Meredith Monk and Koichi Makigami
perform an impromptu mouth-harp duet for a delighted
audience.
Two workshop participants are
invited to sing with orchestras in Karlsruhe
and Rome in CREDO, a Fabrica project .
Lydia Lunch provokes passionate
poetic performances from her participants,
Phil Minton conducts his 65-member
"Feral Choir" outdoors in downtown
Melbourne.
The Mahotella Queens challenge
us to dance and catch their complex harmonies
"on the fly".
Tran Quanh Hai sings every
kind of overtone/undertone in his workshop,
at restaurants, on the street.
Koichi Makigami invites ILV
participants to perform with him in two Austrian
festivals and in Marseille.
Even the worst garbage and transport strikes
in memory could not disrupt the pleasures of courtyard
conversations and concerts hosted by the lovely
and spirited Montevideo performance center.
The ILV is direct, intimate,
informal, intense:
It brings together in one place an active mix
of highly experienced performers of the vocal
arts -- performers who have many lifetimes of
stage and theater experience -- to share their
ideas, teach their concepts, and sing together
in concentrated, intimate, small workshop settings
of between 7 and 20 participants.
The ILV is a "nomad"
institute:
Each session discovers the pleasures of a new
city: Gent, Bruges, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Marseille,
Melbourne, Berlin….. We have no building,
so we're always flexible and evolving.
The ILV is:
over 500 workshop members from 16 countries with
all levels of vocal experience.
The ILV is:
classical - jazz- improvisation- opera - extreme
- popular/folk - new music - rock -sound poetry
- world music - vocal performance - sacred singing
- overtone/multi-phonics - the pleasure of singing
- yodeling - polyphony - Renaissance - soul -
electronic - music theater - cabaret - choral
- remix - aboriginal
The ILV is:
workshops - concerts -- master classes -- round
table discussions - special projects - workshop
presentations - open microphone -
The ILV is a collaboration
with international institutions and festivals:
Vooruit Kunst Centrum, Gent
--Kong Workshop Center, Gent
Brugge, Cultural Capitol 2002
--Culture Centrum Brugge
The Melbourne Festival &
Chamber Made, Melbourne, Australia
Maerz Musik Festival, Berlin
-Montevideo and GRIM, Marseille
STEIM, Amsterdam -Flemish Ministry
of Culture
The ILV is a project of Muziektheater Transparant,
co-founded by Muziektheater Transparant and David
Moss; Wouter Van Looy, general coordinator; Nathalie
De Boelpaep, practical coordinator; David Moss,
artistic director.
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