Happenings

The Musical Body takes many forms - from intimate workshops and gatherings to multi-day camps, collaborative research, artistic exchanges and other spaces for practice and play.

Current

2026/7

  • Vocal Threads Podcast (1st episode released August 2026!)

  • Please inquire about 1:1 mentoring, sessions or classes or Charlotte working with your established group.

  • Artist residencies and exchanges: Charlotte welcomes visits from students, artists and fellow facilitators who would like to come and work, play, exchange or have an artist residency 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

  • Practice-led-research- please be in touch if you’re interested in being involved.

  • Charlotte’s fourth album will be released

1:1 Mentoring & Practice

Charlotte offers individual sessions for artists, musicians, facilitators, students and others wanting to explore their voice, musicality, creative practice or facilitation more deeply.

Sessions are shaped around the particular person and what they are curious about. You might work with embodied voice and movement, vocal and musical improvisation, rhythm, extended and playful sound, songwriting or composition, artistic blocks and questions, developing personal scores and practices, or the relationship between creative practice and the wider life of the person.

For facilitators and practitioners, sessions can also offer a space to reflect on group process, develop practices or scores, explore questions arising in facilitation, and deepen your own embodied and artistic practice.

The work is responsive rather than following a fixed curriculum. We begin with what is alive for you and explore from there - through conversation, sounding, movement, improvisation, experimentation and reflection.

If you’re curious about working together 1:1, please be in touch.

Camps & Immersions

The Musical Body comes particularly alive through small-group camps and immersive experiences.

Spending several days together creates a different kind of space from a single workshop. There is time for practices to deepen and change, for people to follow their own artistic curiosities, for relationships to develop, and for things that couldn't have been planned in advance to emerge.

Structured practice sits alongside spontaneous play, shared meals and everyday life, conversation and reflection, rest and solitude, time outdoors, and the changing rhythms of the group and environment.

We explore voice, movement, rhythm and musical improvisation as a living, relational process - moving backwards, forwards and sideways between sensation, breath, movement, raw and affective sound, language, rhythm, melody, harmony, relationship and collective creation.

Depending on the particular gathering and the people present, we might explore embodied voice and movement; collaborative vocal and musical improvisation; developmental and extended voice; breath, cry, laughter, call, articulation and language; pulse, rhythm, melody, harmony and song; responsive and emergent scores; storytelling and theatricality; relationship and group process; and listening and responding to place and the living environment.

There is no single sound or aesthetic that participants are working towards.

An improvisation might be rhythmic, melodic and harmonically rich. It might be sparse, strange, noisy, physical, funny or tender. Movement might generate sound. Language might become rhythm. Something happening between people might become a score. Something heard outside might enter the music. A song might emerge and develop - or fall apart again into breath, noise, movement or silence.

Participants aren't simply asked to reproduce practices offered by the facilitator. Alongside scores and explorations that Charlotte brings, people are supported to notice and develop their own artistic wishes, impulses and questions - moving between being participants, initiators, collaborators, witnesses, score-makers and artists.

This meeting between individual agency and collective creation is central to the camps: becoming more specific in what we want to explore and express while becoming increasingly available to what others, the group and the environment are bringing.

The Musical Body is as interested in how we meet and listen as in what music we make.

Over several days, the life of the group itself becomes part of the experience - with time for connection and conversation, shared meals, rest, solitude, laughter, reflection, experimentation and the unexpected.

The emphasis is not on achieving a predetermined musical result, but on creating conditions for curiosity, listening, play, artistic fluency, relationship and discovery — and seeing what becomes possible when we have enough time to stay with the process.

Upcoming camps

Watch this space! Coming back in 2027

Practice-Led Research

The Musical Body has been developed through more than twenty years of artistic practice, experimentation, facilitation and practice-led inquiry. I am now expanding this into a more sustained period of research and documentation, including collaborative artistic experiments, research laboratories and other forms of shared inquiry.

If you’re interested in being involved, please be in touch.