Thursday March 6th, Royal Albert Pub

with Sue Lynch (tenor sax)

Monday March 10th, Bridewell ImproVox

with Iris Garrelfs (voice) www.sbf.org.uk

Thursday March 13th, Sound Bureau

with Andrew Ciccone (objects)

Friday March 14th, Hundred Years Gallery, solo and with Kate Carr (objects) and Matt Atkins (percussion)

Sunday March 16th, Mopomoso at the Vortex, with Noisy Women

Saturday March 29th, No Computers with Iris Garrelfs

One of my "scores" for a new piece using recordings made in Hong Kong. I can't keep all the bits in my head when I'm editing so I write what they are on different coloured cards which I can move about to test sequences. Yellow for my singing, blue for environmental sounds, pink for my reading of excerpts from a book "Owlish" by Dorothy Tse, set in an imaginary Hong Kong. I read them in HK locations that seemed appropriate for the words.

A very enjoyable gig at P.I.T. (Property is theft) bookshop in Brooklyn with Time Trout who are Dave Mandl on bass, Stephen Moses drums and Marcus Cummins on sax, ocarina and shruti box. With this group I generally sing texts which I've found or cut up.

So nice to play with Chris Cochrane and Miguel Frasconi again in our trio Lampshade. In a wonderful new venue- Loove Annexe. We were joined by Lori Goldston and Jessica Pavone for some gorgeous music.

Soundwalkscapes was chosen by Bandcamp as one of the best field recordings of 2024!

I was delighted to be invited to be part of the Listening Academy, organised by Brandon LaBelle and curated by soundpocket in Hong Kong. There we shared and discussed ideas and practices with an amazing group of artists and researchers.

My contribution was to lead a soundwalk on beautiful Cheung Chau island, ending with a group Heart Chant by Pauline Oliveros.

I also enjoyed a trio improvisation by the sea with Akio Suzuki and Hiromi Miyakita.

Solo performance at poetry and performance space Xing the Line., London.

I based my improvisation on a text by Pauline Oliveros called "Where the earth worm also sings".

Solo performances in Leigh on sea, UK and Hundred Years Gallery, London.

Both performances were improvised and based on a walk I did in Prespes, Northern Greece, with a local man called Nikos. I used some of his words which I spoke/ sang, field recordings from the location and my singing of a Greek Rembetika song. The performance combined acoustic and processed voice and walking around the audience and through the space.

Workshops and soundwalks

We start with listening exercises to calm the mind, bring awareness to the body and promote an attitude of receptivity to sound, of full-body listening. The intention as we walk is to consciously listen, letting our eyes take a break and relax their gaze. This encourages a different focus of attention, allowing everyday sounds of the place to resonate within us. Through our walking feet we can listen to the song of the journey, to traces of previous walkers, to the stories from the earth, to the echoes of ancient origins, and to our own memories and associations. The essence of a place is revealed to the feet that move through it and listen. We listen together with open ears, letting judgements fall away. We walk as a group, creating a community of listeners.

NowNet Arts Eastern Hemisphere conference:

Aug 29 11pm EDT, NowNet Lab ensemble

Aug 31 7.30 am EDT trio and Beth Warshafsky

https://nownetarts.org/nownet-arts-conference-2024

PIT Brooklyn, NY, Aug 30

solo + quartet Chris Cochrane, James Ilgenfritz, Gian Perez, Kevin Shea

SEPTEMBER

Bonn, Germany Sep 14 and 15

Listening with the feet: Deep Listening Workshop and Soundwalk with Viv Corringham Admission free. Please register in advance. https://soundforum.info/projekte-2024/deep-listening-workshop-und-soundwalk

Black Box Muenster Sep 17 PLAYHEAD Micro-Festival : Viv Corringham

www.blackbox-muenster.de/

Berlin, Germany Sep 19 Deep Listening workshop Zabriskie bookshop https://zabriskie.de

Konsztructing Soundz Leigh on Sea, UK Sep 21 improvised experimental electronic and electroacoustic music https://clients.wegottickets.com/event.php?tick_id=508383

"On "June (Havens Beach, NY) Corringham coos against lapping waves before describing toxic bacteria in the water. Giving voice to the layered narratives of place, she points to a way of noticing more nuanced than mere surveillance."

"Corringham voices the depth of place."

A week in Mexico City and Guadalajra, Mexico, for the festival Enclave- poeticas de emergencia acustica.

I made performances, workshops for Deep Listening and a sound walk. My solo performance was called "Following the Lost River Fleet" based on a walk I had recorded along its route and included that recording plus my live improvised vocal response. I also played with performer Iris Garrelfs and poet Rocio Ceron.

The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp: March 2024 By Matthew Blackwell · March 28, 2024

"Since the late 1970s, Viv Corringham has practiced as a sound artist and vocal improviser, often centering her pieces around walking. She had a radio show at Resonance FM entitled Vocal Strolls and has long undertaken a series of Shadow-walks, which are inspired by walks that have been important in other people’s lives. For Soundwalkscapes, Corringham decided to take a walk on the first Monday of every month in 2023, no matter where she was. The six selections here find her in New York state and London. As she strolls, she improvises: she sings, hums, counts and narrates. Over the course of the album, the histories of these places are revealed along with their present state. “Nearly 200 years ago, Central Park’s landscape near the west 85th street entrance was home to Seneca Village, a community of predominantly free African American property owners,” she tells us. Elsewhere, she reads a sign: “Notice: 24-hour video surveillance. Residents and guests only.” Corringham, a teacher of Deep Listening, is always present and engaged with her surroundings, responsive to the rich sonic environment around her. She’s a phenomenal tour guide and an engaging companion, wherever she takes you. "

“Eco Choir” at Guild Hall, NY “Over a sequential three-year project, Springs School students worked alongside sound artist & composer, Viv Corringham, to develop an ecological listening awareness and explore the capabilities of the human voice. Using Deep Listening methodologies, field recording exercises, and experimental voice practices, Corringham and the Students have developed an “Eco Choir.” In this performance, the Eco Choir will present an improvised performance to the English folk tale, The Buried Moon.” Student Art Festival : Eco vs Ego

guildhall.org

A very intelligent and thoughtful interview by Franco Falistoco for El Ruido es el Mensaje Radio.

A beautiful big book with 9 CDs - a pandemic project I took part in.

Available on Meakusma label.

Put together by Bernd Herzogenrath and Lasse-Marc Riek

A packed 6 weeks of concerts starting with a short UK tour from the band I play with in NYC, Time Trout.

Then several solo and ad hoc group improvisations.

Finally a duo tour in Germany with fellow vocal improviser Maggie Nicols.

My audio piece "New York Night Walk" was part of the "News from the world" exhibit in the French Pavilion by Radio Utopia.

In the French pavilion, small mobile speakers (we will have 48 in total) broadcast our news continuously. The participating public can select the sound they want and walk according to their desires in the French pavilion, accompanied by the chosen news. Also broadcast in the Ball Theater during the week. - On the Internet, a website lists the soundtracks In addition, a catalogue includes description of recordings and biographies.

https://aau.archi.fr/RadioUtopia/

Tuning Meditation as walking event:

I led a large group in the gorgeous piece "Tuning Meditation" by Pauline Oliveros as we walked through the village of Laimos, in the mountains and lakes of Prespa.

Nostalgia for the Here and Now, an installation made with support from Harvestworks NYC New Works Artist Residency 2022, has moved to Berlin for one month. It is presented at Ohrenhoch Soundgallery:

Sunday 19 and 26 March, 2 and 9 April 2023, continuously from 2 pm to 9 pm

ohrenhoch der Geräuschladen Weichselstr. 49 D-12045 Berlin-Neukölln Knut Remond & Katharina Moos http://www.ohrenhoch.org http://www.ohrenhoch.berlin E-mail: info@ohrenhoch.org

Hörgalerie jeden Sonntag 14 - 21 Uhr Soundgallery

Unfinished Descriptions is a collection of scores selected by Tomoko Hojo.

My score is called House Piece.

WALKING BY THE PECONIC BAY

An audio/visual meditation on the Peconic Bay region ofA Long Island NY. I have spent a great deal time there during the pandemic, walking along the shore and observing the environment. Includes my spoken words on a narrated walk there (eg horseshoe crabs older than dinosaurs). 2. Vocal music composed and sung by me, blended with the environmental sounds of the Bay. 3. A video and still views of the place and of myself singing WATCH HERE​

A soundwalk made for Walking as a Question, Walking Arts Encounter, Prespa, Greece. Where are we when we walk? Are we here, in this place that our feet move through, or are we lost in thoughts and memories of other times and places? This playful and dream-like soundwalk aims to throw these questions into confusion. It can be taken while in Prespa or anywhere else, including indoors.

PRESS RELEASE: LOR156 - Viv Corringham - Here in Our Distant Corner We Wait (cassette and DL) Linear Obsessional is very excited to release a new album from the extraordinary vocalist and composer Viv Corringham. "Here in Our Distant Corner We Wait" is an engaging and fascinating collection - Viv uses her voice, both pure and treated, to create intimate explorations within a very human realm. It finds her making some of her most personal and explorative music. This is Viv's third album for Linear Obsessional. Released as a cassette and download.

Through our walking feet we can listen for traces of previous walkers, for stories from the earth, for echoes of history, and for our own memories. The essence of a place is revealed to the feet that move through it and listen.

Full of Noises is a self-guided soundwalk for the Village of East Hampton, New York, that leads the public through known spaces with new, heightened, and playful listening. Composed and narrated by sound artist, Viv Corringham, Full of Noises links the cultural gifts of Mary Woodhouse – Guild Hall, The Duck Pond, and Clinton Academy –, with prompts for finding, imagining, and remembering sounds. Simply download the free app. on your phone, pop-in a pair of headphones, and listen.

Producer, Anthony Madonna Technical Director, Patrick Dawson

Performances at World Through a Window Earth Day Festival and the Quarantine Concerts.

Amanda had taken me on her special walk through Mexico City in 2019, for my Shadow-walks project. We created a piece based on that walk, using her 360 videos and my voice with field recordings made there. Every performance is different because each of us improvises in response to the other person.

(photo by Amanda Gutierrez)

Works from Shadow-walks (at home) were played or performed live by me on several online festivals. BEAST FEaST included the WFAE and wonderful talks by Yang Yeung and Hildegard Westerkamp, among others.

PRESS RELEASE: This release forms part of the Footfalls series, our ongoing exploration of the art and practice of sound walking. We are very pleased to announce our first release for 2021, a set of four Shadow-walks by the US-based British composer Viv Corringham. These walks represent Corringham's sung response to narrated walks undertaken or imagined during the period of the pandemic. Footfalls is presented as a custom compass imprinted USB.

Synthesis Project

We perform on the first saturday of every month: Contemporary network arts (telematic) works by artists performing together live via the internet. The series currently features NowNet Arts Lab Ensemble demonstration performances utilizing network arts technology from home.

Quarantine:

A Telematic nO(t)pera by Doug Van Nort

Created for the Electro-Acoustic Orchestra (EAO), for the virtual space of connected isolation, for Casper the cat, and for self-sanity. It is not an Opera, but it is not not an Opera. It is a composition for musical, visual and virtual engagement. Using pre-composed palettes that integrate text, graphics, Soundpainting and software instruments, augmented with additional real-time composition via EAO’s unique Soundpainting conducting. Developed over months of regular online rehearsals.

Breathing Cyberspace

Hosted by Digital Arts Resource Centre, Ottawa Canada for Independent Media Arts Alliance Digital Shift Victoria Canada,  and Manifestations 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands. AOM is a performance group on the Second Life platform. We've been meeting across 9 time zones for many years before this pandemic sent us all online. Pauline Oliveros was an enthusiastic member.

The Listening Body: Workshop with Viv Corringham & Jolie Parcher

A 5 week course at Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY  Drawing on a range of techniques from Deep Listening™, Yoga, Mindfulness, and more. Led by vocalist, composer, and Deep Listening™ teacher, Viv Corringham, and Director of Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts, Jolie Parcher. It's been good to work with actual people not postage stamps on a screen. And my first live performance with an audience since Covid!

I got this very nice review in The Wire :

"Fragments of her voice flicker like the light bouncing over water in her video, later drifting into ambiguous urban sound, a backdrop for her intermittent vocal solo. It’s a gorgeous, calming piece, new age in the best sense.”  The Wire- August 2020