Notes from voice workshop 16 June

Voice workshop 16 June 2007 led by Guillermo Rozenthuler, a London-based Argentinian singer and voice teacher, with extensive expertise in World Music and a unique approach to vocal training.

exercises to open new ways of thinking and responding
focus
isolated
be present and of the world
practising presence
Navajo conversation is mostly people sitting in silence and listening
improvising is making a comment in a conversational landscape

"England is still such a powerful country, the more its people engage with themselves, the better." He'd noticed that even in the few years he has lived in the UK (since 2000), those things which define Englishness have changed and are being dropped as "hangups of expression" decrease, e.g. behaving without inhibitions even without the use of stimulating substances; people are more willing to engage with their bodies and trust in expression.