FaceNoise: Pop Chorus

No advance bookings just yet, all you need to do is show up. The most up to date info can be found via our instagram page.
 

Every Monday, 7.30-9PM at Victoria, Neepsend

 

£5 per session in January
 

There are loads of Pop and Rock choirs about the place: the corporate workplace choir, the Rock Choir franchise, the backing track singalong group in the church hall. These are excellent and needed. So why have we made another one, and how is it any different?

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This choir has a timeline, starting out as a professional development opportunity for musicians in bands and recording artists. Half of this notion is inspired by Brian Eno’s private choir of recording artists, with footfall including Fred Again, James Blake and Romy Madley Croft from the XX.

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Some singers can be confined to their solo, almost hermitical creative output, and some band musicians can get stuck in their set list, becoming rather mechanistic. The FaceNoise: Pop Chorus is designed, in this first period, to provide a risk-free platform for these musicians to participate in group music making outside of their standard offerings, and to have professional guidance from a choral leader. The sessions will include experimental harmonising, musicianship training and using ensemble skills as a facet of learning a simple arrangement of a pop song.

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Once FaceNoise: Pop Chorus has been established, it will open up to anyone and everyone passionate about group singing. It will still focus on the structure mentioned above, with the added goal of learning more repertoire.

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This choir will be accessible to all. Some people are commonly marginalised by choirs. By way of being crystal clear, here are some of these people whom we will be proud to welcome: trans people (including those taking voice-altering hormones), people with mobility issues, visually impaired people and deaf people.