"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
David Moss has led workshops since 1977. Since
2001 he has led a workshop in each session of
the Institute for Living Voice, www.Instituteforlivingvoice.be,
of which he is artistic director.
He offers workshops for musicians, percussionists,
dancers, singers, actors, choreographers, theater
directors, performers, visual artists, professionals,
amateurs, corporations, business executives, and
to people who love and/or are afraid, to sing!
Six different workshops
are listed below:
A.
Workshops for performers
1. Together
Before Jumping:
How do you sing a solo?
How do time, timing, intensity,
attack, intimacy, eccentricity, personal history,
ego, silence, objects, physicality, gestures,
words, sounds, memory, songs and tactile senses
connect you to the moment of singing?
Do you understand your memory;
the memory of the audience?
Where is performance power to
be found?
What happens with "time"?
What is the relationship of solo work to group
work?
Focusing on these questions
each participant will make & perform a 3-minute
voice solo by the end of the 3-5-day workshop
Open to singers and non-singers, performers of
all kinds; some performance experience necessary;
2. THE
MOMENT OF MUSIC
A VOCAL workshop for PERFORMERS
How do
you make a performance? How do time,
timing, intensity, attack, intimacy, eccentricity,
personal history, ego, musical history, rhythm,
physicality, gestures, sounds, memory, songs
and senses connect you to the moment of making
an improvisation?
What
is a duet? Who is the leader, the follower?
How do you transfer information while you improvise?
Do you understand your memory;
the memory of your audience?
What do you do when you don't
know what to do?
Where is performance power to
be found?
What happens with "time"?
What is the relationship of
solo work to duo work; group work?
What is your relationship to
your audience?
How do you structure/shape time
and space? when you are alone on stage!
What sound/performance relationships
are possible with another performer?
What is possible/impossible
with your voice?
We will work together in small groups
to develop the passion and surprise of personal
improvisation.
Each musician will build a vocabulary of 3 solo
pieces and 3 duo pieces.
If desired, as the finale of the workshop, the group
can make a performance presentation of its work.
Maximum size of workshop = 20
To take part in the workshop, some instrumental,
vocal, or performance experience is necessary;
participants will use their voices; prior experience
with improvisation is not necessary, but helpful.
4. VOCAL VISTAS for THEATER:
an intensive workshop for actors, directors
developing new voices for theater
work
building vocal strength &
creating the emotional voice
singing personal songs
songs as story-telling
researching/understanding theatrical
roles in the human voice
inventing vocal languages
extending the sound-palette
developing improvisation as
a vocal tool
thinking about texture, timbre,
surprise, architecture
Open to directors, actors, theater performers,
singers, composers, non-musicians, dancers;
no musical experience necessary; no instruments
(other than your voice) will be used.
This work will be developed using the story "Josephine
the Singer" by Franz Kafka, and texts from
Italo Calvino as a textural/structural base.
The voice is a combination of muscles, air, passion,
mind. And singing is the delicate but sharp vocal
dance of surprise and desire that can take us
out of our bodies. Here we work on shaping melody,
carving a solo, caressing a tone, plus ways to
energize a texture, taste the next note, and inhabit
your voice.
Over 3 days each participant creates, develops
and performs their own vocal sound-story, in solo,
duo, and ensemble work.
The 7th Sense is for singers, non-singers, actors,
musicians, composers, artists, architects, dancers.
exploring rhythms/textures as
soloist, ensemble-member, beat-maker;
inventing new instruments;
extending the sound-palette
of normal drums;
the drum as melody;
the drum as beat;
thinking about texture, timbre,
surprise, architecture, the uses of silence,
density
non-metered rhythms;
the physicality of drumming
("using the whole body");
the drummer as "song-maker";
singing & drumming (!!!)
Open to drummers, percussionists, musicians of
all kinds, composers, non-musicians, artists,
dancers; bring your favorite drum or percussion
instrument (or object that you can hit/attack/caress).
This workshop is extremely participatory!
Limit: 25 participants.
Two types of workshop are available:
Workshop A: 5 workshop days
of 3 hours each; workshop performance at end
of week.
Workshop B: 2-3 workshop days
of 2 hours each; no performance.
WORKSHOPS
led by DAVID MOSS 