Immersive soundbath & 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, composer, voice leader and sound therapist based in Bristol, known for creating immersive choral soundbath experiences with Murmuration Choir. Born into a family of artists, growing up singing in the church and with trees, Isolde brings creativity to choral music in reverence of the natural world. She shares vocal music that merges play, natural processes, field recordings, ethereal electronics and rich harmonic soundscapes for that explore what it means to be human in our beyond-human modern world. Isolde holds a masters in composition from Goldsmiths University, trained in Vocal Yoga with Heather Lyle and therapeutic sound with British Academy of Sound therapy. She loves to leave people feeling like they’ve had a big sonic hug, inside and out.
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!