About ILV
This is the weblog of the Institute for Living Voice, a nomadic project for everyone who is interested in the possiblities of the human voice. The institute is an international centre for singing, specializing in workshops and concerts in all vocal genres. Each session visits another city and makes this place a temporary meeting place: master-singers and students from around the world meet, sing together, have meals together and plan future projects.
This blog offers an view on the activities during the Institute for Living Voice sessions. Read the comments of our reporter, enjoy the photos, listen to the audio fragments, read what the teachers themselves think of the ILV and give a comment - if you want to.
This weblog started at the 10th session of the Institute for Living Voice, the edition at Tou Scene in Stavanger (Norway). The young Belgian composer Joachim Brackx was our reporter there. Read everything about this session in the category Stavanger 2008. For the current session in Rotterdam, the singer Aurélie Lierman is making a lively report. Read and see what’s going on in the category Rotterdam 2008.
More information on ILV at the official website: www.instituteforlivingvoice.be and below:
The Institute for Living Voice is an international centre for singing, specializing in workshops and concerts in all vocal genres. This varied and inclusive focus makes the ILV unique.
It’s an exploratory, not a conservatory, open to anyone interested in the human voice. Each session explores and mixes the wide spectrum of vocal possibilities, singing styles and techniques.
The ILV offers an active singing experience–promoting direct contact between teachers and students and daily vocalizing for everyone–through 5-10 intensive workshops, each with only 7-20 members. The ILV thrives on the genre-erasing potential offered by this intensive workshop system.
Uniquely nomadic, each ILV session is a partnership with a city and its cultural scene, and with an arts centre, festival, university, or international presenter.
Because the ILV brings together such a diverse mix of vocalists in an intimate singing atmosphere, it offers an unprecedented meeting place for the human voice: master-singers and students from around the world meet, sing together, have meals together, and plan future projects.
Between its founding in 2000 (by Muziektheater Transparant and David Moss) and 2007, the ILV has so far presented 9 sessions in 8 cities. Over 700 participants from 22 countries have sung in 54 workshops. Our 51 master-teachers, representing 15 vocal genres, presented 37 concerts, 9 symposiums, and numerous talks and discussions.