Viv Corringham voice

Sue Lynch tenor sax, clarinet

Live vocal improvisation using a poem by the late brilliant performer Paul Burwell at the premiere of Burning Bridges-a film about his life and work.

Recording by Ivor Kallin who played it on his show “Ambrosia Rasputin” on London’s Resonance fm radio.

ADVANTAGES OF BEING A WOMAN ARTIST Jun 2024 Eavesdropping festival forum at Cafe Oto, London. The theme was failure. Here’s my performance based on the Guerilla Girls’ “The advantages of being a woman artist.” I've always loved that text! ​

Here is an excerpt of our first concert of an 11 gig tour in Germany, organised by Soundtrips. This was in Bonn.

Performance by Time Trout at Main Drag, Brooklyn NY.

video by Gauci music.

Time Trout are

Viv Corringham voice

Marcus Cummins sax, ocarina, stylophone,

Dave Mandl bass

Stephen Moses drums

NEW SOLO ALBUM ON FLAMING PINES LABEL!

CD/DL Release date March 15th 2024

https://flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/soundwalkscapes

In Soundwalkscapes Viv Corringham invites us to join her as she encounters her surroundings using her voice and body. In listening we move with her though five journeys in New York State, and one in London. On these walks we hear multiple, and overlapping versions of space itself. We listen to the polyphony of multiple voices, overlapping, merging, and clashing, and encounter the aural traces of other bodies and other species moving, breathing, chirruping, rustling, stamping, shuffling and banging. We meet different versions of Corringham too. She counts, tells us of her wait for dinner, reads pollution warnings and recounts snippets of local history. And of course she sings: with birds, the ocean, horses and footfalls. She sings us the content of signs, the rhythms of construction noise, and the hiss of the waves. Part narrated journey, part imagined fiction, Soundwalkscapes continues Corringham's expansive and profound explorations of the multiple and viscous relations between voice, place and the mobility of walking.

Resonant Voyaging 2022

Solo improvisation at Oxford Improvisers event.

Released as download on Scatter

Played on Corey Mwamba's show on BBC Radio 3.

Dec 2023 SOUNDWALKSCAPES:

A year-long project in which I made one piece of new sound work each month, based on walking.. On the first Monday of every month in 2023, wherever I found myself, I took a walk. I recorded the walk, the environment and my improvised sung response to the sounds and situation. I then applied some electroacoustic treatments to the recording, such as granular effects and layering voices.

Listen to the last in the series - December.

To be released in Soundscapes Volume 2 later in 2024 on Flaming Pines.

Jan 2023

Time Trout - the band I sing with in New York - releases its first album on Otoroku, London's Cafe Oto's label. (Viv Corringham, Marcus Cummins, Dave Mandl and Stephen Moses.)

“…fronted by a vocalist of stunning virtuosity. The splendidly named Stuck Like Jane Austen seems, at first, to have very little to do with the early 19th century novelist, although if Viv Corringham ever planned to sing Sense And Sensibility live, I’d be first in the queue. It may be that, as hinted by Corringham’s incredible riffs on “the back and forth of otium, of otium” on Stuck’s blues-rhythmed title track, Time Trout’s first album concerns those very Austenish themes of relationships, aloneness and negotiations. Even if it isn’t, the collection of 14 live improvisations is a masterpiece in spontaneous strangeness." Louise Gray, The WIRE​

Oct 2022

Performance with live vocals by me, distributed within the installation by technology wizard Paul Geluso. I sang responses written by exhibition visitors to my two questions: "What sound would you most miss if it disappeared tomorrow?" and "What object do you most value - what would you save from the hurricane?" The performance marked the final weekend of my two-months long installation at the Harvestworks exhibition on Governors Island, NY.

with Paul Geluso.

Aug-Oct 2022

An audiovisual multi-channel installation supported by a Harvestworks artist residency for new works 2022. Combining environmental sounds, found objects, my own singing and people's responses to the questions:

What sound would you miss most if it disappeared tomorrow? and What object do you most value- what would you grab if the hurricane was coming?

As if someone from the future gathered together memories of our soundscape along with quotidian objects as a record of how we lived and what we valued here and now.

Below is a binaural recording of an eight speaker work. Please listen with earbuds/ phones.

May 2021

PRESS RELEASE: 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 her most personal and explorative music. This is Viv's third album for Linear Obsessional.

Viv Corringham 2020 voice, voice processing and field recordings.