Immersive soundbath x spring picnic
Tone. Bird song, buds, emerald. Unfurling, planting, planning. Ideas, notes, sunlight.
Artists: Isolde Lachlan & Sula Mae
For our Spring gathering we’re welcoming Issi & Sula in a spellbinding musical celebration, looking at the intersection between new and old ways of creating sound, telling stories and collectively resting into sound.
Issi and Sula will be guiding a journey of interactive workshop meets immersive soundbath that’s a chance to ‘do,’ and also do nothing at all. Interwoven with poetry, original music and improvisation, someone described the feeling of this collab previously as, ‘all the magic and relaxation of a lie-down gig,’ which is very perfect. Within the workshopping there’ll be wellbeing tools and generous opportunities to play with vocal group sounds and biaural melodies, in moving circles that feel like live art installations. People curious about using their voices in creative ways more, this could be your thing.
For food, we’ll be sharing a beautiful home-cooked picnic of salads, cake, kombuchas and fresh bread in between workshop and soundbath; giving some space for meeting new people (or quietly savouring your dinner in a corner, if you’re feeling some down time.)
To soundbath with Issi and Sula is to be lullabied into another space and time. Coaxing together loop pedals, gong, strings, chimes and live song that give a blend of ethereal gospel meets Bjork, together they create soothing layered soundscapes that are an ode to Spring’s wondrous nature. Waves of old native tunes are mixed with recorded sound, to create questions around the different ways we can enjoy music collectively - and very possibly lull you to sleep. While we’ll enjoy cushioned nests on the floor for support as we rest into some simple, dreamlike regulation.
This is a sonic spring tonic we’re so thrilled to welcome you to!
Issi.
Isolde Lachlan is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, choral director, teacher and therapist based in Bristol, UK. She produces songs that fuse vocal harmony soundscape, electronica & experimental pop, and curates choral projects that push the creative boundaries of contemporary vocal music.
Born into a family of visual artists, Isolde’s experience of sound has always
synaesthetic impression of the world around her. Drawing upon a love of nature, and an early initiation into choral music, Isolde blends field recordings with vocal soundscapes, and translates an ancient expression of what it is to be human into a contemporary aesthetic. With a Bjork-like desire to facilitate union between the organic and the man-made, Isolde explores the anatomy of acoustic sound with inquisitive music production, often under-pinned by the beats and bass of her urban London up-bringing.
At the heart of Isolde’s work, runs a life-long love affair with vocal music, and the act of voices joining in synthesis. As well as orientating a musical home to return to, a large part of her career has been carved out of directing, composing and arranging for vocal projects, including Eko Trio, Bath Theatre Royal Choir, and Rising Voices Recovery Choir. Following a desire to explore the potential of this further in her own work, Isolde went on to found Murmuration Choir, a 70-voiced contemporary choral project based in Bristol.
Sula.
Sula Mae is a sound healer, qualified music psychotherapist, and musician based in Bristol, with a deep passion for exploring the transformative power of sound. Her sound healing training with Cherub and Tim Wheater, opened her eyes to the diverse and powerful ripples of change generated by therapeutic sound. With a diverse background in music psychotherapy, she offers a unique approach to sound baths, helping people reconnect with themselves through the voice and through surrendering to sound. Sula loves that every sound bath is different, and feels co-created through the special constellation of people in the room. She is a big fan of the gong, and likes to make it sound like a whale!
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