We all love singing so much, we can all think of something to add to any improvisation. Someone starts a riff and we all jump on like kids on a trampoline! Harmonious cacophony can be a thrilling effect, but cacophony is cacophony, and not always the desired effect, and certainly not for any extended length of time. We've recently been exploring what happens when we strip away voices during an improv, making room for a soloist or duo to explore a theme on their own. We've discovered that this has many positive effects. Often the soloist takes the improv to a very different and exciting place, moving the piece forward, or the duo launches into an exciting give and take (a form we call "See-Saw") creating a previously unheard combination of voices and vocal tones. By changing the combination of singers mid-improv, suddenly the piece has new "geography." Quiet personal passages emerge. New themes [...]
ImproVox: Blog
We all love singing so much, we can all think of something to add to any improvisation. Someone starts a riff and we all jump on like kids on a trampoline! Harmonious cacophony can be a thrilling effect, but cacophony is cacophony, and not always the desired effect, and certainly not for any extended length of time. We've recently been exploring what happens when we strip away voices during an improv, making room for a soloist or duo to explore a theme on their own. We've discovered that this has many positive effects. Often the soloist takes the improv to a very different and exciting place, moving the piece forward, or the duo launches into an exciting give and take (a form we call "See-Saw") creating a previously unheard combination of voices and vocal tones. By changing the combination of singers mid-improv, suddenly the piece has new "geography." Quiet personal passages emerge. New themes [...]