ONE Arts Studio will be hosting Drone Choir on Sunday January 18th and Sunday January 25th from 11:00am-12:00pm. Sliding Scale: $5-$25

Join us as we seep into sound and presence with the droning of a shruti box as our backdrop. With eyes closed, we will listen, breath and vocalize, letting our voices blend and shift naturally. No singing experience is required; this is about listening, experimenting and finding connection through sound to ourselves and those around us. Drone Choir offers a calm, focused space to experience singing and music-making as a shared, evolving soundscape rather than a performance.

Leading the session with be Penny Harte a life-long singer who says “I’ve always been drawn to community singing and singing as a form of playing, connecting and improvising with others. I think singing and music making can feel intimidating and foreign to many people. Many people feel they have to be ‘good’ in order to sing, let alone in the presence of others, and I do not see this as the case! Drone choir allows people to sing and express without the pressure that society typically puts on us to be ‘good’ and ‘polished’.” Penny will be using a shruti box. A shruti box Penny explained, is “a traditional Indian instrument used to produce a continues drone. It is similar to a harmonium but uses a set of tuned reeds to produce sound versus piano keys (like a harmonium). It is an aerophone (in the family of wind instruments), a form of musical instrument that produces sound by causing a body of air to vibrate, without strings, membranes or the vibration of the instrument itself. It is often used in Indian classical music, meditation and sound healing (including chanting) and world and fusion music.”

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