Tonight’s taster session – 7.30pm Friends Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane, Norwich NR2 1EW £5.00
This is an opportunity to sing some of the new commissioned music and find out more about this exciting project where the Voice Project animate the streets of Norwich with singing on 12th May for the Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2012.
Here are some photos of the Coast Choir we’re running on the North Norfolk coast each Monday evening. Annie Edwards’s pictures manage to make the Cromer Community Centre look almost exotic…
Listening to "Na He"
Raffaela Barker talking about "sea texts"
Uma - A study in patience
We’re really happy to announce Geraldine Pilgrim as our director for our new Norfolk & Norwich Festival commission this year. Geraldine is a specialist in large-scale site-specific projects. We’re very much looking forward to working with her.
Here’s the new flyer for the project. Please tell anyone who you think may be interested to come along to the Friends Meeting House on Tuesday 21st February for the taster.
Hello – we’ve changed the date of this show because Norwich Cathedral isn’t available on May 19th – so we’ve moved it a week earlier…
‘Singing the City – From Dawn to Dusk‘ – Saturday 12th May 2012 (note change of date)
A musical mystery tour invented by the Voice Project – animating the medieval streets and buildings from St Andrews Plain to Cathedral Close with exciting new music created specially for the Voice Project Choir and Human Music.
Three performances that make use of a whole variety of interesting and unusual acoustic spaces – interior and exterior: placing singers in squares and streets, crypts and alleys, dark corners and cloisters, courtyards and rooftops.
Travelling through worlds of shadow and light, telling the stories of past and present, you will hear the beauty of a single voice on a rooftop; the harmonic intrigue of a small ensemble in a crypt to the uplifting sound of massed voices in the cloisters and nave of Norwich Cathedral.
The taster session will be on Tuesday February 21st at The Friends Meeting House in Norwich at 7.30pm. No previous experience is necessary and as always there are no auditions to join.
The performance will be on Saturday 12th May in Norwich. We will be working with an excellent team of people. The libretto is being written by George Szirtes and Andrew McDonnell (two of the writers from last year’s ‘The Proportions of the Temple’) The score is being created by a team of four composers – Helen Chadwick, Jeremy Avis, Orlando Gough and Jonathan Baker.
To everyone who’s taken part, helped or been part of the audience, we just wanted to say Happy Christmas.
With very best wishes for 2012
Sian & Jon
We thought we’d mention Paul as he’s been doing some great work over the past couple of years for The Voice Project and many people have asked for more details. His most recent piece of work for us was the lovely Scandanavian-influenced design for Wintersongs 2011.
Wintersongs - 2011 poster Design Paul Flack
This was just one of several designs put forward for the project – each one was excellent: this seemed to fit the atmosphere (and temperature!) of the concert best. Very characteristic in Paul’s work are the symbols: the great futurist snowflake design for example.
Another striking piece was for the pamphlet for this year’s Vocal Invention 3.
Pamphlet for Vocal Invention 2011
Here’s a varied collection of some of Paul’s other work. We look forward to working with him more in the future.
Basil Kirchin Album design (for Trunk Records)
Moon Poster
Hand in a cloud of paper
Basil Kirchin album cover (for Trunk Records)
Tristram Cary album cover (for Trunk Records)
Short biography: Originally working from his studio in the East End of London Paul Flack is a freelance graphic designer now based in Norwich.
Coming from an untrained background but gaining a wealth of experience through the print trade, Paul’s love for design and a phony portfolio is all it took for him to work his way into his first real position working for Soho-based Blam (Most noted for changing the face of movie posters with the ‘Trainspotting’ campaign).
As a day to day designer, FLACK’s diverse body of work covers design, illustration and branding projects for music, arts, fashion and book publishing . His work has been seen in many publications including Creative Review, Design Week, Die Gestalten Verlag, Dazed & Confused and Vogue. Recent clients have ranged from the ultra hip Amelias Magazine, to the ultra local Norwich City Council, with stops along the way at familiar global brands like EMI, River Island and Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Paul can be contacted at flackdesign@btinternet.com
A recording of Desert Places from Wintersongs 2011 – recorded in St John’s Catholic Cathedral, Norwich December 3rd 2011.
We’re just going through the recording from the concert. There are some good things here and we’ll post a few on this blog. The first one is ‘Darest Thou Now O Soul’. Some amazing playing from Andy Sheppard here; occasional clicks and pops from the sound equipment (sorry – I can’t edit them all out). Great ending though.
A blue one…
St John's bathed in blue
…and a red one…
Deep red
Here’s Sian today (Tuesday) after the operation on her ankle sporting a rather fetching blue cast (very much ‘de rigueur’ this season we’re told). She’s in some pain but in good spirits and she should be out of hospital either Wednesday or Thursday. Hooray!
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