Wouldn’t you love to be able to improvise, or improvise better? If so, this 3-session workshop will help you! During the workshop we will explore improvisatory techniques in general, as well as genre-specific approaches suitable …
If you study music from Turkey or the Arab world, sooner or later you will encounter the ‘limping’ aksak semai, a rhythmic pattern or cycle (usul) that underpins some of the most celebrated repertoire, including …
Building on the success of our November workshops and at the request of participants, Music Boat is pleased to announce a new, fortnightly series of meetings. Modal Music Boat Meetings are to gather us together …
Rachel Beckles Willson is the founder of Music Boat. She is a multi-instrumentalist, researcher and composer, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. Two recent and ongoing projects are Today is Good!, a song-writing project …
Merit Ariane is a singer and composer whose work explores the fluid boundaries between music and theatre, cultures and languages. Her storytelling through songs is inspired by her German–Egyptian heritage, and draws on Arab and …
