Calling from the rivers’ edge, Voices as the river.
A workshop for meeting, blending and exploring our voices in the depths of expression and collective care.
A collective exploration and joining of our voices as a bridge between self, others, and the unseen. Across cultures and throughout history, people have gathered in sound, to call across distances, to grieve and be held in community, to tell stories that carry memory, and to invoke from beyond the visible world.
The workshop will begin with some breathing exercises and attentive silence, tuning into the subtle soundscape that is already present. From this place of listening, we’ll gently open into sound, using simple vocal practices to explore resonance, vibration, and the ways our voices can meet and intertwine.
Through guided exploration, we’ll move beyond habitual patterns of speaking and singing, allowing for a wider range of expression to emerge. There will be space to sense how sound travels, how it connects us and can support release, grounding, and presence.
The session will settle into a shared field of sound, with openness to participate or simply receive. We will close with a simple sharing of a person or memory that needs resonance or wider connection for remembrance, a circle for reflection and integration.
Erin Lang (Montreal, Canada) is a musician, leader of the group ‘Foundling‘ based in Berlin, a composer for film, and sound artist. Her fifth album ‘Artemesia’ has just been released with Shadow World Records (UK).
Together with Shannon Turner and Amélie Vrla, she is part of the trio NIGHTWASHERS, who offer creative practices that explore death and transitional experiences. Inspired by mythic midnight washerwomen, they gather at the thresholds of life, opening space for loss and grief to be witnessed and potentially transformed through collective making, ritual, and reflection.
