Today Folk Song Lab had the opportunity to present the ideas of the project to teachers and staff at KMH. Hopefully they were interested in following the project as it goes along. The presentation focused on giving a broader picture of the ideas behind Folk Song Lab. Flow. Qualities in Folk Music. Interactivity. Improvisation.
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Presentation at ELIA in Rotterdam
Folk Song Lab was presented at the ELIA conference in Rotterdam. An attentive audience also got to test some of the concept IRL at the presentation.
Methods used @ Folk singing course
Using the Folk Song Lab methods for improvising with new groups are always fun and a joy. Today the methods were used in a session of the folk singing course at ‘Eric Sahlström Institute’ (ESI) in Northern Uppland, some hours driving from Stockholm. The participants were intrigued and throw them self out with different FSL-methodsContinue reading “Methods used @ Folk singing course”
360° at Eric Ericsson hall
Together with the choir Vocal Nordice conducted by Lone Larsen, and under the conceptual lead of Katarina Henryson, Folk Song Lab participated in the concert 360° at the magic Eric Ericsson hall in Stockholm. Mirror-singing, Meandering, Herding calls and polyphonic chorale singing was performed.
News – 4,2 miljon for project!
Read new flash about the project! (in Swedish)
Funding for Folk Song Lab!
The project Folk Song Lab has got project funding from the Swedish Research Council which gives the project a wonderful new possibilities to develop in the future starting from January 1st 2019. Happy! Please follow the findings and methods that will be presented on this site, starting from NOW.
New semester at KMH with folk song lab sessions
Starting off a new semester at KMH also means doing new experiments in folk song lab sessions . Always starting with mirror singing, but also include improvising new ballads or waulking songs or something else. It’s great fun.
Fun at Sommelo festival in Kuhmo, Finland
During one week the participants of the Ballad course at the Sommelo Festival got to try out some of the methods in Folk Song Lab. Story-board ballad and mirror -singing. Participants from Sweden, Finland, Russia, France, Norway did their best to find suitable storys to tell by improvised singing.
Research network meeting, Center for Social Sustainability and KMH
Today Folk Song Lab started a network meeting at KMH with an interactive mirror-singing session and a short presentation of the project. The session created a warm and good discussion climate for the presentations that followed. An interesting day!
The brain and folk song lab?
Today Folk Song Lab visited Petter Kallionen at the Linguistic Department at SU. Could it be possible to measure some of the things happening in the brain while improvising?
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