Add Your Voice: An In-Person Sound Workshop
How might language enhance separateness as well as communicate connection?
What sounds are in us beyond the words that we speak?
Is language part of our evolution or devolution from our cosmic origin?
How can we access connection and sensing without words?
What traditions shape human sounds?
In “Add Your Voice,” we invite you to explore the role of language in human societies. The workshops are grounded in vocables—sounds without words or literal meaning. Vocables are part of an ongoing exploration of language, meaning-making, and connection to our cosmic ancestry. Together we will explore vocables as a practice to sound our way into the stardust, our cosmic source. We invite you to open to the unknown through deep listening, breath, voice improvisations, and responses to imagery.
These experiences are also invitations to participants to rehearse and record their work, and to perform live on September 14, 2023 at the opening of TwoTrees’ art installation, Un-Tying Our Cosmic Ancestry at Christian-Green Gallery.
A background in singing is not necessary! We are particularly interested in how this practice can remove barriers of perceived separation and help us access more than is described in meaning-making language.
Join us in the exploration of this powerful tool that points to our interconnection and uniqueness!
About the Facilitators
Gideon Crevoshay is a musician from the hills of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. He uses the human voice to explore the countless dimensions of sound, language, and improvisation. Gideon studies traditional and ancient forms of singing from the US, Caucasus, and Mediterranean, finding inspiration in the wisdom contained within these traditions and how they can inform present ideas of music making and community.
Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees is a self-taught artist who has spent a life at the crossroads where species, cultures, beliefs and the unknown collide and find both dissonance and resonance. Her work helps humans re-orient to our indigenous mind and regenerate our essential relationship with the Earth’s wisdom. She is a past recipient of the Lila Wallace International Artist Award and her work has been exhibited and is in collections in the US, Europe and New Zealand. She has been Artist in Residence for the The Vermont Network for Domestic Violence, a Whistenton Public Scholar at the Kettering Foundation and faculty in the Leadership in Sustainability Masters Program/University of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.
RSVP for the In-Person Sound Workshop
Participants should dress comfortably and bring a mat for sitting if desired.