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Story Song from Tenerife

Posted by on Feb 06 2011 | Audio, Listening, Reviews and Recollections, Sarah Sings, Songtaneous

The audio file below is an excerpt from a much longer (about 30 minutes) piece we created during Session 2 of my year-long improv class using a process Rhiannon calls shape-shifting.

In a shape-shift, the music starts somewhere and is allowed to … yep, you guessed it … shift. Another aspect of the shape-shift format is that often part of the group sings and the other receives the music, usually sitting or lying in the center of the singing circle.

On several occasions during our 10 days at Jardin Mariposa, the owner, Petra, invited friends to meet and sing with us. (That’s how I met Leiko and got to go to the local beach. *smile*) She and 3 or 4 others joined us for this shape-shift, which happened during one of our evening singing sessions. (We typically sang 6 to 8 hours a day. I loved every minute of it. *grin*)

We had been singing for quite some time when I was moved to start speaking. This “story singing” is one of the things I began discovering during my 30-day song-capade and it really solidified during this second session.

http://songtaneous.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/tellyou.mp3

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Food for Thought (#78)

Posted by on Jan 28 2011 | Audio, Food For Thought, Listening, Songtaneous

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain,
the sound of wind in a primeval wood,
and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”
– Henry Beston

picture of the black stony beach in Puerto de la Cruz

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Spontaneous Song #30

Posted by on Nov 30 2010 | Audio, Sarah Sings, Songtaneous, Spontaneous Song a Day

Woo! and hoo! I did it!

I haven’t sorted through what all I’ve learned from the experience yet, but here are some top-of-my-head thoughts and observations:

  • I can create a song every day.
  • Having an external deadline was important to the success of the project.
  • An email every day was too much for some people (It’s okay, sometimes I felt that way, too! *smile*)
  • People who heard me sing this month said they could tell I had been singing every day.
  • I may develop some of the spontaneous songs into song songs. *grin*

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who wrote to tell me which songs they liked (I got a lot of comments about songs #2, #8, #15 and #23.) I have so appreciated your attention and your encouragement over the last 30 days.

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So. How to end?

I thought about singing an homage to the 30-day Song-capade in the final song (but that ended up feeling like WAY too much pressure. *smile*). So, as my friend Bruce would say, I just “threw back my head and sang.”

Enjoy the finale.

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