Teachers and staff at KMH

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.

Flow parameters that build the ground for the Folk Song Lab methods.

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-methods without knowing it until afterwards in a true Folk Song Lab spirit.

Participants in the Folk singing course sourounding Eric Sahlström in the middle.

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.

Folk Song Lab – from left: Klara Ekman von Huth, Anna Wikenius, Annika Hammer, Maja Kamne, Marika Bjärneborg, Kristina Leesik, Alva Granström, Eva Rune, Sandra Berggren, Susanne Rosenberg, Hanna Andersson, Nina Grigorevja, Katarina Söderlund, Sofia Sandén
  • Folk Song Lab preparing. Behind Gunnar Idenstam
  • Chairs waiting for the audience
  • mirror-singing
  • meandering
  • collaboration
  • applauds
Before – during and after the Folk Song Lab session @ 360° in Eric Ericson hall.
Folk Song Lab agenda for the evening

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.

This is the session participants in Folk Song Lab autumn 2018. Marika Bjärneborg, Sandra Berggren, Björn Gardner, Annika Hammer, Klara Ekman von Huth, Anna Wikenius, Ida Hellsten, Hanna Andersson, Eva Rune, Nina Grigorevja, Alva Granström, Maja Kamne.

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.

new stories are created
Singing the songs created

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!