CULTIVATING YOUR VOICE

TO FREE YOUR VOCAL EXPRESSION

10-MONTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM WITH ALESSIO CASTELLACCI

I am very excited to announce the first Mentorship Program! This 10-month long study is designed to offer a deep dive into your voice expression, through a study frame tailored to your learning process.
The approach I offer is based on the belief that an authentic, intimate relationship with your voice and the expressive freedom that comes from it, can only happen from an experience of full embodiment, reuniting the breathing body, the moving body, the vocal body and the thinking body into a fine-tuned system, capable of deep listening as well as of a fully creative and expressive response to the world.

The Mentorship can start at any time of the year (after personal confirmation from me) and grants full access to 2 intensive 5-day workshops in Berlin, 10 x (90 min) one-to-one online sessions, and a final meeting for reflection and integration of the seeds that have been planted and developed. These learning modules are available for 12 months from the agreed upon start of Mentorship.

The Mentorship Program is an invitation to a full commitment to a year of learning with and from your voice, and hopefully to extend this loving invitation to a life-long journey :) One of the goals is to enable you to become independent in your exploration of the embodied voice, so that you can continue to learn, grow and transform on your own by following your unique process through the road map you will receive. People who are trained in music as well as those who are not: all levels of experience are welcome!

You can request a free consultation call, to get to know me and explore together what your wishes are and if this feels like the right commitment for you.

THE MENTORSHIP INCLUDES:

• full access to 2 intensive workshops of Embodied Voice Flow in Berlin
  

• 10 x 90-min individual online sessions with tailored assignments and feedback
  

• final integration session

“Sometimes we don't even know how great the change is until someone notices that and tells you. That's what happened after my first TWIS programme in 2018. People told me: your voice sounds wider! And I thought: my body feels boundless and I can spread myself through space as never before. That was just the begining. Alessio's approach is both emotional, caring, playful and technical, having intuition and allowance as a starting point and perceiving body-voice-space as a whole. I'm definitely more present, grounded, connected to myself and the landscape everytime I come from a process with him. And for that, I'm freer as an artist!”

Mariana Camacho (singer, sound artist)

“Mentoring sessions with Alessio have thus far been a safe and sound journey of what it can mean to establish a relationship with my own voice – as a medium, as a partner, as a presence. from more technical and playful vocal exercises to the deep waters of listening, hearing and breathing – each session interlaces the actions of tuning in with an embodied understanding of what and how the voice reveals, finds, hides and sustains itself. as a fairly timid person, it has been comforting to train with someone who is so knowledgeable and caring, someone who embraces the foundations of 'tuning in' so much in their own teaching practice.”

Gretchen Blegen (interdisciplinary artist)

EMBODIED VOICE FLOW:

Embodied Voice Flow approach invites you to re-discover an intimate and empowered relationship with your primal voice and its profound sensitivity, through a series of somatic investigations into deep listening, embodied vocality, musical instinct, Collaborative Vocal Improvisation. EVF opens a shared space to connect with the pleasure and the healing qualities of creating music with our breath, voice, mouth, body, and with our innate instinct for expression and relating with others through music. The overall trajectory follows a designed progression from the functional aspects of voice and body (breath anatomy, elements of acoustics and phonetics), through practices of voice releasing, to the realm of improvised musical flow - the ‘music of the now’.

SOME OF THE PRACTICES YOU WILL LEARN:

• VOICE EMBODIMENT THROUGH SOMATIC EXPLORATION AND TOUCH WORK
  
  

• ESTILL VOICE TECHNIQUE MODEL (anatomical perspective of different voice qualities)
  
  

• PERCUSSIVE VOICE / MELODIC VOICE (pulsing ∞ flowing)
  
  

• GENERATING AND SUSTAINING MUSICAL FLOW (alone and with peers)
  
  

• PRINCIPLES OF ‘COLLABORATIVE VOCAL IMPROVISATION’ (CVI)
  
  

• CHANNELING YOUR ‘SONG OF THE MOMENT’
  
  

• HONOURING AND NOURISHING YOUR PROCESS BY ALLOWING AND EXPERIENCING RATHER THAN JUDGING AND EVALUATING, SURRENDERING TO YOUR VOICE’S UNIQUE QUALITIES
  
  

“My experience in TWIS and working with Alessio was finding access to my own musicality and my voice which I have struggled for years to be able to hear. Working from a basis of vocal rhythm making- unlocked an understanding of music and composition while also unblocking my ability to be creative and improvise with my voice. Alessio's approach gives technique and structure with which to make sense of the experience of singing (having a voice) but an even deeper work- is the somatic informed TWIS approach which gives one a sense of belonging to ones voice and in the context of working in a group- a sense of safety and security.”

Carrie McILwain (movement and sound artist

“Throughout the work I was able to hear and listen to the many voices by the other participants and in myself. The space Alessio created allowed for a listening to all the sounds, rhythms and melodies that are already existing in and around us. I felt that the work opened up different ways of experimenting with my own voice as well as interacting with other voices in a playfull way. As a dancer I was introduced to ways of using the knowledge I have about movement and dance in the voice work.”

Ida Mariboe Nielsen (dancer, choreographer)

THE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM IS FOR YOU IF:

- you wish to sing and explore the possibilities of your voice but find yourself procrastinating and find it hard to make time for this in everyday life

- you feel ‘stuck’ when singing and wish to have a road map to orient yourself and grow

- you feel called to explore your voice soundscape and to feel more at home in it

- you wish to feel more grounded and confident when speaking, singing or expressing your emotions through the voice

- you wish to develop your voice practice and feel ready to commit to a deeper journey

- you are drawn to an intuitive approach to music-making which passes through an embodied, physical experience

- you have a musical education and feel that your vocal freedom is limited by it

- you wish to develop your rhythmic skills

- you wish to learn tools to improvise vocally alone or with others

- you feel called to embrace a life-long companionship with your voice :)

FEE

Sliding scale 950€ - 1350€* (can be paid in 1 or 2 installments)

The fee does not include travel and accommodation costs.

If interested write me at info@the-world-is-sound.com.

(*choose your fee according to your own means, based on self assessment)

photo: ⓒ Florence Freitag