CircleLand is a choral improvisation workshop aimed at singers, instrumentalists, and composers who wish to expand their musical and cultural education through an activity designed to nurture creativity and “performance freedom”. The project’s design exists within a process of deepening the choral expression known as “CircleSinging The work done within the workshop is not tied to musical scores, but rather to guiding the participant towards a free relationship with their own vocality, improving listening skills, and engaging with a very important instrument: the Voice.
The CircleLand project, born in 2006, was conceived as an educational journey in which the experience gained by Maestro Albert Hera over the years in the field allowed him to construct a decidedly personal form, whose path could be synthetically defined as:
“We learn to use technique in favor of our natural expression.”
In recent years, CircleLand has come a long way, evolving from its initial meetings where singing in a circle was primarily a playful group expression, to becoming a structured and well-defined project
CircleLand Workshop guides the participant towards a free and joyful relationship with their own vocality and musical instinct
The experience of singing in a circle involves not only the vocal and musical dimensions, but also the physical (movement, rhythm), cognitive (memory, attention), and socio-emotional (listening, attunement, coordination between sections) aspects. The result is an experience of deep absorption in which emotional factors become the basis for facilitating in participants a new and more acute awareness of the rhythmic, polyphonic, performative, and anthropological aspects of singing activity.
In summary, CircleLand Workshop is a journey to activate creativity, improve musical perception and listening, rhythm, and the relationship with one’s own voice and body, instilling in the learner a concrete sensitization to curiosity, sensation, and wonder – important components for enhancing the artistic growth of each participant.
GOAL
Workshop of choral improvisation and performance freedom that guides the participant towards a free and joyful relationship with their own vocality and musical instinct.
Singing in a circle, interweaving the vocal and musical dimension (melody) with the physical (rhythm, movement), cognitive (memory-attention), and socio-emotional (listening, coordination between sections) aspects.
An experience of deep absorption in which emotional factors become the basis for facilitating a new and more acute awareness of the rhythmic, polyphonic, performative, and anthropological aspects of sound-vocal activity.