Creative Voice is a unique body of voice work which has been developed and refined by Hilde Knottenbelt in Melbourne, Australia, since 1987.

Creative Voice:

• works with your voice as an instrument for song, self expression and play.

• makes connections between the body, the voice, the breath and the imagination.

• uses the basic elements of improvised singing including melody, harmony, text, pulse and vocal percussion to create improvised pieces or songs.

• includes warming up to improvising in a state of free floating attention where you experience creative interaction with other voices.

• can lead to Story Singing where a group member tells a moment or story from their life and other group members sing it back

• takes place in groups and in one-to one sessions.

Commonly Asked Questions

Experiences of Participants

Who's it for?

Creative Voice is for both inexperienced and experienced singers, improvisers, performers, people who want to develop their creativity, and people who’ve always wanted to sing and are ready to give it a go.

Philosophy

The experiences that emerge in vocal improvisation are a metaphor for the way we engage with life and learning and so we can be singing, creating, playing, listening, interacting and learning about ourselves and life all at the same time.

Sometimes we experience ourselves as being in the flow, in tune with ourselves and what’s going on around us and sometimes we experience being out of synch and our style is a bit cramped or we might feel disconnected or critical. The challenge is learning to live with all of that, as we open up our voices and experience the healing and wholing that the aesthetic experience of making music in the moment can bring.