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The Ethnosensual: Forest of Voices | workshops with singing, 16+

14 and 15 October 2022

“Forest of Voices” art therapy workshops with singing, part of a cycle entitled “The Ethnosensual”. The course teacher was Anna Niestatek, a singer, performer, music producer and educator.

Workshop timing:

2022-10-14

“The Physical Voice”

Palpable, existing, vibrating in body parts. During the session, we relaxed our bodies and guided them through different states and layers. We did physical and breathing exercises. In the main part, we subjected our bodies to a series of activities combining effort with voice emission, incitement of resonators located in specific body parts.

We were working barefoot.

Saturday 15 October 2022

Songs of Plants – singing workshops

Plants and music have been a part of the daily lives and rituals of every community. The seasons, with changing vegetation landscape, defined the rhythm of people’s lives.

During the meeting, we learned about the basic history of scream-singing, we did breathing and voice emission exercises. We learned several traditional songs from scratch. We became familiar with the symbology of the plants that appear in artistic works and with their properties which we are now able to consciously use in our diets and home treatment methods for certain basic ailments.

We were together as individuals and as a group. We talked in a circle, in a polyphony, intuitively sharing our emotions with the group’s support.

Workshop leaders:

Anna Niestatek, a singer, performer, music producer and educator. Seeker of personalized avant-guarde forms of vocal expression, conductor of the Bydgoszcz Improvised Orchestra. She finds Zygmunt Molik’s “Voice and Body” work method a great inspiration in her artistic activity. In her solo project called |fontAnna|, she creates sound collages based exclusively on the voice.