Sitting in the void, listening for how to write this write-up for the harmony weekend, I tear up. Because harmony is one of the highest beauties availability in this existence. 

How is it that we were born into a universe whose physics do this? Wow.

And because we are capable of harmony, as humans, and we need to remember this now perhaps more than ever before.

Bringing my voice. Being steady and clear. Hearing yours. The sound of we. The thing we can only do together, can’t possibly do alone.

Harmony.

So how do we cultivate our harmonic skills as collaborative vocal improvisers?

In this 2 day workshop, I aim to help you all use harmony better in the 2 days, and also, to give you approaches to working with harmony in your personal practice, your collaborations and perhaps your teaching so that better and better harmonic practice is part of how we roll in the vocal improv community, learning with kindness, patience, and inclusion as we’re all in different places on the competence spectrum and we can travel together well.

We’ll regulate, learn calmly. Listening is at least 50% of this work, we can only do it if we’re regulated, calm and present. We’ll build from simple basics to more complexity. We’ll stay in the diatonic frame (Imaj, IIm, IIIm, IVmaj etc). And hopefully we’ll do lots of really beautiful singing. Welcome.

Limited to 16 places.

Details

Cost

Tier 1 $350

Tier 2 $250

Tier 3 $150

Please select your tier in integrity, you will not be assessed.

How to Pay

Please pay directly, also please register using the button below.

Venmo @Briony-Greenhill

Paypal brionygmusic@gmail.com

Payment plans are fine. Email info@brionygreenhill.com and propose something that works for you.

About Briony Greenhill

Briony is a highly experienced, internationally recognised teacher of collaborative vocal improvisation, CVI. Since 2018 she taught the class Wild Voice, Solid Roots, which balanced vocal improvisation training with training in vocal musicianship / applied music theory / chops for singers. She’s taken 15-30 students a year through that program from beginner to advanced levels.

Briony now tends The Singing Circle online membership program, and Your Song library of online courses, including Chops for Singers which covers melody, harmony and rhythm for singers from beginner to advanced levels.

Briony studied music with Atulkumar Upadhye in India, David Eskenazy in France, Rhiannon and Bobby McFerrin in the US, and also several piano teachers including Frank Martin, Julie Wolf, Huw Warren and Michiel de Koning. She was recently awarded funding from Arts Council England to study non-diatonic harmony for a year, producing learning she’s applied to composition and string/ horn arrangements for her next album, Symbiocene Mama (currently recording).

Briony has released 4 entirely improvised albums, and her debut studio album, Crossing the Ocean, received good reviews from The Guardian, Mojo, and BBC Radio 3 and 4. 

Between polycrisis, omnicide, motherhood, the hopeful rise of the Green Party in the UK and Briony’s degree in political science and background in change work, Briony’s life is being drawn more and more into politics and she’s somewhat in handover mode with her teaching. 

She cares deeply about access to this embodied, ear-based approach to learning music, particularly drawing from improvisational and non Western music cultures, as extremely accessible and empowering for anyone who is musical yet alienated by the dots, as Briony was.  So this is a path of studying music with the voice, ear and body, to use as a vocal co-creative human.

Briony’s teaching is trauma informed, but to be clear, this will not be such a space of self expression and check ins and so on, as a space of regulated, calm, creative music school. Here we go :)