GATHERING: Soft Palate | A voice and listening workshop

Join us for a workshop with composer Richy Carey, exploring thematic tangents that emerge from Rehana Zaman’s exhibition Plantation through our ears and tongues.

Through listening, voice and text scores we will consider the parallels between monocultures in food production, and notions of mono in culture more broadly - playing with how we might lean into polyphony and plurilingualism as a way of articulating the vitality of polycultures.

In the workshop we will make music for voices that anyone can take part in, and in doing so discuss ideas around listening and language, movement and migration, correspondence and co-responding. We might eat food, we might move our bodies, we might explore the gardens through our ears - all the while thinking about the need for indeterminacy, improvisation and play in nurturing polycultural, non-hierarchical futures.

There’s no wrong way to sound.
All voices welcome.
No previous singing experience required.

Please bring loose clothing and a jacket. If you know of any food allergies or dietary requirements, or have any access needs we should be aware of, please email Robyn at robyn.haddon@glasgowinternational.org

Richy Carey is a composer from Glasgow living in the Isle of Skye. He works collaboratively with community groups and other artists to make communal sounds that explore the different kinds of understanding that can emerge through listening and sounding together.

Image courtesy of Richy Carey.