The Folk Song Lab project continues. On September 18th, we had a wonderful Folk Song Lab session. The participants were all members of RÖSTFORUM (The Swedish Voice Forum). In Röstforum there is a form of meeting and sharing called SNACK (it has a double meaning; it means TALK and also like in English SNACK). SNACKContinue reading “Voice forum session”
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Folk Singing Symposium presentation
Presentation of the project findings at the Folk Singing Symposium 24-25 February 2023 in Sheffield, England. Here is a link to the online presentation: https://youtu.be/p6-h7fL6hOk Improvising Folk Songs – The Folk Song Lab project | Susanne Rosenberg A presentation of the findings in a research project called Folk Song Lab. Folk Song Lab acts asContinue reading “Folk Singing Symposium presentation”
Folk Song Lab – Music Research of the month
This month – May – Susanne Rosenberg is the researcher of the month. Listen to when she describe the project (in Swedish).
Intense inspiration days in Gnesta
When working in a project like Folk Song Lab you sometimes need to be super-focused and working together without being disturbed by other ‘stuff’. The FoSoLa inner circle went to Gnesta in Sörmland to spend two days of total concentration. Working with new ideas of improvisation, such as using the formulas of ‘Sutartinas’ (Lithuanian singing-style)Continue reading “Intense inspiration days in Gnesta”
FoSoLa intense day
Today we, FoSoLa, the inner circle of Folk Song Lab has improvised the whole day. The astonishing ‘Körsalen’ (Choir Room) is a perfect both physical place and temporal space for experimenting. Giving the feeling of full view as well as seclusion.
No session rookies
Nearly all sessions include someone who never participated before. Today that was not the case. We are all familiar with improvising in a folk song lab session. We find the concentration through mirror-singing and then we fly away on improvisatory adventures.
Folk Song Lab @ Folk Song Festival
Today we closed the Folk Song Festival at Eric Sahlström Institute (ESI) with a Folk Song Lab session. The big hall at ESI has a wonderful acoustic that fits well the improvised voices. Thank you all for a heart-warming flow moment.
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.
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.
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