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Since 2006 Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre and the Composition Department at Guildhall School of Music & Drama have been exploring the collaborative possibilities of the making of new works for voice. Each October a group of around eight poets and writers are matched with composers, and now at the outset also with singers, to form small creative teams. Through a process of workshops and seminars, in which students exchange work, listen to other traditions and practice, and become acutely aware of their own creative processes and assumptions, the groups develop songs. With Guildhall instrumentalists on board this process culminates in performance events in May at both Guildhall School and Wigmore Hall, London’s major international venue for song. Initially emerging from the Wigmore Hall song cycle project, this unique collaboration has developed an innovative richness that has been astonishing, not only enabling a reflective dialogue around the interface between text and music, but also establishing ongoing creative partnerships and new work.
Rebels in Control have built a website to document the Voiceworks projects past and present. For the 2010/2011 academic year, the Rebels will also be helping students to report on their activities via the website, individually and as creative teams, as well as participating directly in projects arising from the creation of new Voiceworks.