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Entangled Singing with Rhubaba Choir
5th November 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM GMT
The Rhubaba Choir provides the opportunity for individuals to sing together in a welcoming, eclectic group and share singing experiences. We welcome anyone who wants to lend their voice, regardless of prior musical experience. We learn mostly by ear, rather than from sheet music.
The Choir have been working with artist and writer Marie Hamrock and vocal facilitator Noah Tomson to sing the life cycle of a scottish salmon, drawing on material from Marie’s writing as well as folk songs, sea shanties, and underwater recordings of salmon themselves. This workshop expands the fishy, watery chorus to look more closely at some of that material and to explore the journey of the salmon physically and vocally. No singing or movement experience is necessary.
Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle. There will be a break in the workshop where a hot drink and some snacks will be provided. The workshop, and the Choir as a whole, are shaped around the abilities and capabilities of participants. If you have any questions or access requirements please send us a message at rhubabachoir@gmail.com.
The 3-hour workshop will generate material which will be collectively sung by the workshop participants, joining the Rhubaba Choir members, at the event Entanglements: Studies in flowing, following, falling on Thursday November 7 at 6pm. We would ask that you arrive at the Futures Institute at 4.15pm on Thursday November 7, in advance of the 6pm event start time. This will give everyone time to be introduced to the event space, the plans for the event and your participation in it.
The event comprises six presenting groups, each arriving at a different time for their introduction to the space. Once your slot is completed, there will be a break before the event starts.
Biography
The Choir was founded in 2013 by committee members of Rhubaba, an Edinburgh artist-run organisation. It acts as a commissioning platform for new works, intended to provide invited artists, musicians and writers with the resource of collective voices as a material. Rhubaba invites artists to make works for and with the voices of the choir, whether through traditional means or by using the voice in other, more experimental ways. In its lifetime, the Rhubaba Choir has sung in many places, including underpasses, on canal boats, up Calton Hill, and worked with many artists including Shona Macnaughton, Sion Parkinson, Kathryn Elkin, Hannan Jones, Serena Korda and Tessa Lynch.
