Feral Choir
Phil Minton
A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
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A Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by improviser yodeller, composer Phil Minton.
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Setting up a minimal procedure to explore the interaction between a person and the (documentary) film/ video process. What initially seems simple ends up contrarily distanced and intimate, public and private.
Sonic ‘observations’ of the world, through micro recordings on a tiny scale and transformed into something musically compelling.
Artist Derek Lodge running a specially designed social space, somewhere for conversation, story-telling and interaction.