“Exploring the spaces between life and music”
An embodied practice exploring the relationships between body, voice, movement, rhythm, improvisation, developmental & archetypal movement and sound, land, co-creation, imagination, sound, text, play, breath, community building, social change and responsive scores and ritual.
Led by Charlotte Roberts who has been developing, researching and facilitating iterations of The Musical Body Process since 2003.
About
The Musical Body (Tm) brings together body, breath, voice, rhythm, music, imagination, human/creature nature, our living environment/land within and around us and intention in a living, co-creative practice. Drawing on vocal improvisation, movement, listening, experiential education and musical forms and relational practices, extended vocal techniques, and responsive ritual, participants explore voice in relationship to life itself.
Held in various formats such as small groups, 1:1 mentoring for facilitators and artists, training for aspiring or practicing facilitators of embodied and collaborative vocal improvisation and with private groups and 1:1 students; this practice invites deep listening — inwardly, relationally, and toward place and people — attuning to what wants to emerge. The Musical Body centeres shared presence, responsiveness, and music-making as a living, relational process.
Who It’s For
Shower singers, seasoned improvisers, artists, teachers, facilitators, and anyone curious about voice, embodiment, and co-creation. No experience is required — just curiosity, openness, and a willingness to listen, move, and play.
Camps & Immersions.
The Musical Body comes alive through intimate camps and immersive experiences for small groups of 6-8 participants. These gatherings are playful, spacious, and deeply experiential — shaped by the people, the land, and the moment.
Core practices include:
Embodied voice and rhythm
Movement and collaborative vocal improvisation
Experiential musical structures and co-creative emergent ritual
Developmental and archetypal patterns of movement, sound and musical expression
Play, presence, and relationship in the here and now
Relating to body, voice and land as part of nature- our creature nature
Led by Charlotte Roberts
Charlotte Roberts is a facilitator, vocal artist, composer, mentor, and mother who has been guiding people (since 2003) in body, voice, music, and co-creative process. Her approach is warm, intuitive, and grounded, supporting participants to trust their own musical intelligence and explore voice as a living, relational practice.
Upcoming
2027
Facilitator training in embodied & collaborative vocal improvisation and group-work 2027. Be in touch if you’re interested.
A Podcast (which began recording in 2026) will begin releasing interviews on Spotify and Soundcloud.
Charlotte’s fourth album will be released
2026
Please inquire about 1:1 mentoring, sessions or classes or Charlotte working with your established group.
Charlotte welcomes visits from students, artists and fellow facilitators who would like to come and work, play, have an artist residency and exchange in the Macedon Ranges.
Charlotte is taking a break from facilitating camps and retreats in the Macedon Ranges for the remainder of 2026.
Charlotte is a ‘Global Connector’ with The Well Vocal - Global Vocal Improvisation Network
Past
2026 April. The Musical Body Camp. 7 day camp with Guest Facilitator Moe Clark.
2026 January. The Musical Body Camp. 7 day camp with Guest Facilitator Ria Soemardjo
2025 September (The first) - The Musical Body Camp. 7 day camp with Guest Facilitator Chiara Cortez
2023 After giving birth to her son, Charlotte began inviting guest facilitators so she could continue offering longer residential camps. The vision was to delegate parts of The Musical Body program to aligned facilitators (sharing key modalities or teachers), creating a balance between teaching and time with her son across one–two week camps. Plans made to begin a year long immersion and facilitator esque type training through The Musical Body Process.
2022 Charlotte does an Australian tour (whilst pregnant) leading Taketina and The Musical Body in Warrnambool, Fremantle, Bermagui and NSW and releases her third album ‘Incantations’
2020-2022 Charlotte co-composed ‘Murmuring Walk’ with Ria Soemardjo (a guided walk at Sanatorium Lake, Mt. Macedon where Charlotte contributed her love and COVID nerd-out of vocal improvisation composition in response to birds found locally to her home, and delved deep into place-based sounds and patchwork/non-linear composition alongside Ria). Also, within the ‘In Your Arms’ project, Charlotte co-composed music, vocal and text soundscapes for audios with Ria Soemardjo, Rivka Worth and Vanessa Chapple (through ArtPlay and later released as explorations/meditations for parents with pre-crawling babies)
2021 Charlotte completed her Taketina teacher training/Became a certified Taketina teacher.
2019-2024 Charlotte led Taketina Peer-practice gatherings along with continuing with movement based companion/community of practice groups online and vocal improvisation community of practice online and in-person.
2019 Charlotte led more The Musical Body retreats and workshops in Melbourne and The Singing Shack and offered ‘Songs in Time’ and ‘Mantramations’- improvised songs for people
2018 Charlotte registered with ISMETA as practitioner and Somatic Educator/Therapist and released her second album ‘Stay in Your Power’
2017 Rhiannon visited Australia and Charlotte assisted with some aspects of her Melbourne and Macedon Ranges visit. Charlotte began an Australian Vocal Improvisation Community group Facebook page and Whatsapp group to begin developing a vision to have a community of practice with other facilitators and artists in the field and develop connections, visibility and collaboration across the fields and connected fields of vocal improvisation in Australia.
2013 + 2017 Charlotte completed year long All The Way In studies with Rhiannon in USA and Europe and a Peer-Gathering of ATWI students in Portugal
2020-2022 Charlotte studied Shiatsu
2017-2021 Charlotte studied in a number of immersions with various body-voice specialists such as Johnathon Hart-Makwaia, Amit Carmelli and Jorge Parente.
2013-present Charlotte attended Creative Voice with Hilde Knottenbelt regularly as a participant and as part of an advanced - practitioners group.
2011-2019 Charlotte collaborated with Hilde Knottenbelt as a vocal improvisational duo with dancers and additionally with other movement/spoken word improvisers on improvisational ensembles- including FourNow Ensemble and a trio with Ernie Gruner.
Charlotte completed her Open Sky Qigong teacher qualification.
2011-2023 Charlotte goes on tour (mostly) annually and leads improvised singing, The Musical Body and Embodied Voice and Rhythm workshops in NSW (including Bermagui and Mittagong) and Victoria.
2011 Embodied Voice weekly classes and retreats led in Melbourne and Newham as 4-5 day residential and 2-3 hour a week for 8 weeks series. The Singing Shack became a home for The Musical Body workshops and retreats, including 4 day camps in the Macedon Ranges.
2010-present Charlotte led and participated in weekly peer-practices and communities of practice of movement based and vocal improvisation based practices.
2010 Charlotte completed levels 1 and 2 of The Tamalpa Life/Art Process Studies and studies in various body work modalities
2009-2021 Charlotte trained with Alice Cummins intensively in week long Body Mind Centering immersions and private sessions along with studying WaterDance and Watsu 1
2009 Charlotte registered with VIT as a primary school teacher
2006-2017 Charlotte teaches music, movement, outdoor education, camps, before and after school, works as a CRT, music teacher in schools, leads drumming workshops. Charlotte leads The Musical Body and Embodying Voice in Nilumbik area, Cecil Street studio, Dancehouse, Abbotsford Convent and from home in 8-10 week series. Charlotte drummed at African Drumming classes and then played Dunduns for teachers.
2006 Charlotte studied Experiential Education, Nature Education and specialised in body based music, drumming, creative movement and creative singing, vocal play and group song-writing leadership with groups which she brought to camps and leadership programs
2003-2009 Charlotte spent time volunteering and facilitating groups and studying experiential education approaches to dance therapy and play in Costa Rica, Peru and Chile then completed Dance Therapy studies in Australia.
2003 Charlotte began leading movement, singing and sound improvisation and play at youth camps- some aspects which were called PlanetSOL (sing/smile out loud)
2001 Charlotte attended Discovery for Teens camp and decided she wanted to develop camps / facilitate as her life passion and contribution to the community
1990 Charlotte started meeting with her favourite tree on Wurundjeri land, Newham, Macedon Ranges, listening and singing
The Musical Body Australian Community
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Australian Vocal Improvisation & Body-Music Community
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Global Vocal Improvisation Network
Contact
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