workshop
Grzegorz Karnas conducts music workshops for people who would like to engage in music-making using the instrument which is the human voice.
Since playing music with the voice is based not only on play, but also on becoming familiar with several seemingly self-evident aspects of it, the issues dealt with during these workshops include: breathing, articulation and transmission of one's voice based on its natural tone, in keeping with its primary function – conveying emotions.
Among other things, group sessions consist of creating so-called “cyclic cantos”, the aim of which is to broaden rhythmic awareness by bringing one into contact with what are known as poly-rhythms.
This is a way to quickly create a live improvisational choir based on a group of people who - once familiar with a given rhythmic element, onto which a successive rhythmic element that creates a simple counterpoint to the first is then superimposed – are able to create a percussive effect. Notes in simple arrangements of intervals are then superimposed onto this mixture of rhythms. The melodies change in the course of their being sung, and the choir follows the cues of a leader.
MEGAFON
The aim of these group sessions is to get into the trance-like nature of singing in the context of repetitive cycles, to learn through experience that repetitiveness leads to “settling” - or in other words, strengthening of expression while feeling the chemistry of making music as a group.
Since playing music with the voice is based not only on play, but also on becoming familiar with several seemingly self-evident aspects of it, the issues dealt with during these workshops include: breathing, articulation and transmission of one's voice based on its natural tone, in keeping with its primary function – conveying emotions.
Among other things, group sessions consist of creating so-called “cyclic cantos”, the aim of which is to broaden rhythmic awareness by bringing one into contact with what are known as poly-rhythms.
This is a way to quickly create a live improvisational choir based on a group of people who - once familiar with a given rhythmic element, onto which a successive rhythmic element that creates a simple counterpoint to the first is then superimposed – are able to create a percussive effect. Notes in simple arrangements of intervals are then superimposed onto this mixture of rhythms. The melodies change in the course of their being sung, and the choir follows the cues of a leader.
MEGAFON
The aim of these group sessions is to get into the trance-like nature of singing in the context of repetitive cycles, to learn through experience that repetitiveness leads to “settling” - or in other words, strengthening of expression while feeling the chemistry of making music as a group.
