Calling Calling: a gathering of voices

Calling Calling: performance event Saturday 14 October, 7.30-11pm, Arnolfini /////LINE UP\\\\\ Sharon Gal Nik Rawlings Phil Minton + Feral Choir Dali de Saint Paul + Wojciech Rusin Calling Calling: new collaborative ensemble vocal piece --- SHARON GAL Sharon Gal is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, vocalist and composer, specialising in free improvisation, experimental music and collaborative, participatory compositions. She works with voice, electronics, extended techniques, field recordings, found audio, video and collage; exploring presence, listening, embodiment, and the relationship between people, sound and space. Sharon will perform ‘Ghost Song’ - a new performance piece, visceral sound poem and an incantation, responding to a text composed by writer and visual artist Oliver smith, after her performance at Xposed Club/University of Gloucestershire in 2017. --- NIK RAWLINGS Nick is a Counter Tenor vocalist, composer, artist and DJ. They make work that considers experiences of networked presence, polymorphous bodies and vocal transformation. Situated between song, collective performance and dance, my practice explore the complex relational quality of sound in space, while creating spaces of shared connection, confrontation and joy. --- PHIL MINTON Phil is a British avant-garde jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter. For the past forty years, he has collaborated with groups, ensembles, orchestras, musicians and artists internationally including Roger Turner, John Butcher, and Audrey Chen. Phil also leads the Feral Choir, voice-conducting workshops and concerts for anyone who wants to sing, and which has performed in over twenty countries. --- DALI DE ST PAUL Dali de Saint Paul is a prolific collaborator and a prominent figure in Bristol's improv scene. “I want to explore different collaborations to see how I can make dialogue with people within different genres”, she says. Dali has worked with US noise artist Moor Mother, is a member of feminist improvising collective Viridian Ensemble, the long-running group Domestic Sound Cupboard, and a part of the recently conceived industrial duo Harrga with Miguel Prado. She also founded The Ephemeral Project 64, which invites different musicians to improvise with her until the ever-changing group has completed 64 separate performances. WOJCIECH RUSIN Wojciech Rusin is a Polish-born audio visual artist based in London. He draws inspiration from alchemical and gnostic texts, early renaissance choral music and Eastern European mythologies --- Calling Calling: new collaborative ensemble vocal piece Devised and performed by participants from the Calling Calling vocal workshop series, which took place earlier this year. Following the workshops, the group spent a weekend in residency at Arnolfini to bring together their learning and to use their voices to create something new, ambitious and expansive. Workshops were led by invited artists Alwyn Pritchard and Hannah Silva, as well as by members of BEEF and Brunswick wider community: David Hopkinson, Tina Hitchens, Phil Owen, Dali de st Paul, Shirley Pegna. --- BACKGROUND Calling Calling is an expanded vocal project taking place throughout 2023. A programme of public workshops and performances, and an artist development project explores collaborative vocal ecologies through non-traditional voice and expanded vocal techniques. This project developed out of, and is led by, a group of Brunswick artists and the wider extended Brunswick community, who have come together through their shared interests in working experimentally with the voice. This programme is made possible with funding from West of England Visual Arts Alliance (WEVAA) and Arts Council England, with support from Arnolfini.