“Why do you sing?” - A meet-up for singer-creators 

A collaboration between VoxLAB and Studio Loos

Group meeting Tuesday April 9th at Studio Loos,  7-9pm 

In the first of several planned networking meet-ups, vocalist-creators based in Den Haag have been invited to share and discuss the challenges and inspirations of creating new vocal repertoire and experimental post-operatic forms. Musicologist Jelena Novak, author of Post-opera: Reinventing the Voice-Body (Routledge) will be present to help shape the dialogue and pose questions. Possibilities for international research collaborations between Studio Loos (DH), Voxlab (Oslo) and other artist-led initiatives will be explored.

Composer-performer Kristin Norderval will host both the initial meeting and subsequent follow-up meetings. Themes relevant to post-operatic forms such as body/voice theory, the embodied voice and voice beyond corporeality, and human-computer interaction in technologically augmented environments will be explored. Among the expected results are increased knowledge about post-operatic multimodal creations and methodologies; the establishment of a network of creators, producers, composers and performers interested in exploration of experimental post-operatic forms; and potential co-creations between the Norwegian organization VoxLAB and experimental opera companies based in the Netherlands  

Kristin is a Culture Moves Europe grantee and a Studio Loos 2024 artist in residence. This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.