FERAL CHOIR WORKSHOP! WITH PHIL MINTON + CARL LUDWIG HÜBSCH

The MPS studio is pleased to welcome Phil Minton, a legend of vocal improvisation, together with Carl-Ludwig Hübsch, to Villingen for a workshop.

Phil Minton & Carl Ludwig Hübsch will be giving a Feral Choir / Improvisation workshop on April 26th, aimed at those interested in improvised singing but also explicitly at the unstudied, amateur or amateur who want to break cover with their voice and musicality.

The mixture of “educated” and “uneducated” voices is a fruitful basis for a music in which everyone is and must be a beginner in the focus of the improvisational moment.

Everyone is welcome. Also people with voice break, whisperers, voice quandaries or vocal despots.

The goal of the workshop is the development of personal vocal qualities beyond traditional singing, i.e. including everyday or even “uncultivated” sounds (=>feral = wild, cruel).

15 participants will improvisationally explore extended vocal techniques, everyday voice, grunting, rasping, whispering and breathing.

THE PARTICIPATION FEE ALSO ENTITLES YOU TO ATTEND THE STUDIO CONCERT ON 27.4.2023 WITH PHIL MINTON, HARALD KIMMIG AND CARL-LUDWIG HÜBSCH. ATTENTION: THE TICKETS ARE FOR THE EVENTS ON 26.4. AND 27.4.PERSONAL AND NON-TRANSFERABLE.

Phil Minton is from Torquay in the United Kingdom. In the early 1960s he played trumpet and sang in the Mike Westbrook Band, and in 1975 Phil Minton formed the vocal quartet Voice with Julie Tippetts (Julie Driscoll), Maggie Nicols and Brian Ely. Later collaborations with John Zorn, Peter Brötzmann, Carla Bley, Tom Cora, Derek Bailey, FM Einheit, Alfred Harth or David Moss, among others. Since the 1980s, his Feral Choir has performed in over twenty countries.

Carl Ludwig Hübsch is a German jazz and improvisational musician. Hübsch first learned the clarinet, then switched to drums and, from 1983, to the tuba.

Since 1989 there have been collaborations with musicians such as Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, Jasper van’t Hof, Paul Lytton, Willem Breuker, Tomasz Stańko, Pinguin Moschner, Thomas Lehn, Ernst Reijseger, Gunda Gottschalk, Harald Kimmig, Lê Quan Ninh, Uli Böttcher or Sebastian Gramss.

Hübsch hosted the SWR New Jazz Meeting. Trio Universe with Matthias Schubert and Wolter Wierbos as well as Quartet Drift with Isabelle Duthoit, Joris Rühl and Christian Lillinger to the octet with Philip Zoubek and electronic musician Joker Nies.

MPS-STUDIO

Admission 18:00
Start: 18:30

Duration approx. 2 hours

Participation fee members / reduced: 30 Euro (entitles also to entry and participation at the concert on 27.4.)
Entry fee Regular: 35 Euro (entitles also to entry and participation at the concert on 27.4.)