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Video: Myriam Van Imschoot & Pablo Castilla.

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Drawing: Pablo Castilla

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Doreen Kutzke started yodeling at the age of 6, in her hometown, Blankenburg, Harz, where she was born in 1975. An actress, singer, composer, Doreen teaches singing improvisation. She leads a Jodelschüle in Kreuzberg, Berlin. http://www.jodelschule-kreuzberg.de/

Myriam Van Imschoot has been studying with Doreen Kutzke since 2011. A writer and a performance artist based in Brussels, she became interested in yodeling as a form of long distance communication and now develops a series of works and compositions in a series of residences at Campo Ghent.

Pablo Castilla is a film maker and documentary maker. He often collaborates with choreographers. With Myriam Van Imschoot he has been collaborating since 2008 (Fax Film, Efemeriden, Lift, and various documentation projects).

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Documentation Yodel Intensive

4, 5 December 2012

Introduction

This page is part of the publication “Voicelab2”.

Yodeling is often associated with schlagers or tiroler kitsch, less so with traditional folk singing stemming from mountain areas. Yet, as a particular singing technique that alternates quickly between head and chest voice, it appears in a much wider range of singing cultures too. Yodeling gives a foundation to explore the vocal apparatus, the musical cry, and dissonant harmonics that also have appealed to a lot of experimental music since it proposes alternative ways of using the voice.

On 4 and 5 March 2012 a yodel intensive was organized to explore this technique as a basis for ensemble singing, working with visual scores and drawings. Invited yodeler Doreen Kutzke gave an initiation and together with performance artist Myriam Van Imschoot and filmmaker Pablo Castilla various pieces were staged for the camera.

The Yodel Intensive was the closing chapter of Voicelab2 and the start of a residency by Myriam Van Imschoot at Campo where yodeling is the point of departure of interview-based performances with yodelers who demonstrate their art while talking about the many intersections between this singing culture with their own lives.

Credits Teacher and vocalist: Doreen Kutzke; Collaborator and director video performances: Myriam Van Imschoot. Camera: Pablo Castilla. Participants: Ilse Van der Elst, Adaline Anobile, Nadine Rombout, Karen De Bliek, Gaël Santisteva, Simon Mayer, Pieter Ampe, Rik Debonne, Greta Henau, Nele Vereecken, Erna Van Akoleyen.

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