Waste Paper Opera Chorus [September]

Waste Paper Opera chorus are an experimental project choir based in South East London. Everyone is welcome to come and sing. The choir performs in art galleries, on recordings, and is the opera chorus for Waste Paper Opera (Free to Choose (2023) – Singapore Art Museum, Dead Cat Bounce (2022) – Somerset House, Nottingham Contemporary).

In the first half of this session, we explore the voice, space, and time through a series of exercises, improvisations, and experimental repertoire works, as well as rounds and hymns.

James Oldham and Glynnis Eldridge will explore early stage ideas for their project DOG LUCK. A good boy, a cosmonaut, a fashion accessory, the un-wolf - DOG LUCK considers what it means to be born as a dog through song, vocal improvisation, and word games.

Klara will be developing a sequence of gestures, songs/sounds and breaths, based loosely on baroque gesture notation and fragments of Lully's opera 'Armide', and see to what extent we can ventriloquise each other as we perform these sequences in a group. She is currently investigating the intersections between historical gesture systems and contemporary technologies of affect recognition, with a focus on multimodal sentiment analysis.

We will be going to the pub afterwards :)No specific experience is necessary for this session, but some experience in or passion for singing is desirable.

The session takes place at St Mary Magdalene in Peckham – a short walk from Queens Road Peckham overground or Nunhead train station.