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FRANCESCA DELLA MONICA: Vowels: Their Archetypal Meaning & Their Gesture Power [April 2006]
One of the most original vocal performers in Italy as well as a leading voice teacher Francesca works across a spectrum of genres and techniques.
Yn un o’r perfformwyr lleisiol mwyaf gwreiddiol yn yr Eidal yn ogystal â bod yn athro llais blaenllaw, mae Francesca yn gweithio ar hyd ac ar led amrediad eang o genres a thechneg.
Vowels: Their Archetypal Meaning and their Gesture Power.
In this workshop participants will explore the theoretical analysis and above all the practical analysis of ‘vocal range’. We will try to identify the so called ‘Historical’ sphere and particularly the ‘Mythical’ sphere. The former is where everyday speech is generated, the latter, where the all important additional ‘vocal’ meaning is generated. This is where meanings, dynamics, intonations, and durations allow us to go beyond the so called ‘Pillars of Hercules’ of a restricted vocal identification. The access to the mythical sphere is often inhibited by defensive, removal and braking mechanisms.
The workshop will focus mainly on the analysis and identification of the phenomena that prevent us from accessing this sphere of the vocal act. We will also study the archetypical value of vowels, starting from the research of the unrepeatable and ‘physiognomic’ shape of each individual, and arriving to the study of the common features carried by each vowel.
Francesca della Monica
Francesca was born in Livorno in 1962. She is one of the most original vocal performers of Italian experimental music. She studied Chamber Music at Conservatorio “Cherubini” in Florence and gained her degree at Conservatorio “G. Frescobaldi” in Ferrara. From the outset of her career she has dedicated herself to contemporary music. This has led her to meet and work with many composers and musicians, including: Sylvano Bussotti; John Cage; Giancarlo Cardini; Aldo Clementi; Marco Betta; Armando Gentilucci; Roberto Fabbriciani; Daniele Lombardi; Paolo Castaldi; Giuseppe Chari; Pietro Grossi; Vittorio Fellegara; Francesco La Licata; Andrea Nicoli and Riccardo Vaglini, and to participate in festivals of contemporary music either in Italy or abroad. She is also well known her the research into different voice techniques - both traditional and experimental - and about the non-conventional manners of notation in vocal music. Besides, she has largely worked in theatre where she has collaborated with many companies: I Magazzini, Il Teatro dei Sensibili di Guido Ceronetti, Krypton, Parco Butterfly, Mascarà Teatro, Fondazione Pontedera Teatro, Fondazione Siparo Toscana, Festival di Santarcangelo, Koreja Teatro and recorded 2 CDs dedicated to John Cage for “Materiali Sonori” and CDs of music by Giancarlo Cardini, Andrea Nicoli, Riccardo Vaglini for “Quaderni d’Octandre” and “Ars Publica”.
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