Name: Intro To Vocal Painting [Dodge 050]
Start: 2025-04-12T16:30:00-0400
End: 2025-04-12T17:30:00-0400

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Saturday April 12, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT

Dodge Hall

Intro To Vocal Painting with Kari Francis

Have you ever wanted a structured way to improvise multiparty vocal music? In this hands-on workshop, Kari will introduce you to Vocal Painting (VoPa), a practice that combines Walter Thompson's Soundpainting gestures with Bobby McFerrin's Circlesongs to make a sign language for composing music in the moment with other singers.

By regularly incorporating practices like Vocal Painting in both rehearsal and performance, vocal ensembles can become spaces for fostering individual artistry, developing collective identity, and expanding how we think about performing as including notated arrangements as well as collaboratively composed performances.

[Dodge Hall Rm 050]

Instructors

Kari Francis

Kari Francis (b. 1988) is an American choral musician whose composing and teaching explores the resonant spaces between improvisation and ritual. She engages with contemporary and underrepresented voices to inform an equitable, creative, and singer-centered choral pedagogy in her... Read More →

Saturday April 12, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Dodge Hall 324 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115

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Boston Sings [BOSS] 2025

Kari Francis

Attendees (6)

Boston Sings [BOSS] 2025

Kari Francis

Attendees (6)

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