Embodying The Voice

On his first ever visit to Ireland, this is a beautiful opportunity to learn from a true multi-instrumentalist and worldwide musical intuit.

Vishesh Kalimero is a musician and educator from Delhi, currently based in Goa, India. He has travelled extensively across Asia and Europe, collecting sounds and traditional instruments, performing concerts, and facilitating workshops at music festivals, cultural centres, art houses, and meditation spaces.

Vishesh plays a variety of traditional string instruments from Asia, with a special interest in how ecosystems shape the music of a region. He explores the intimate relationship between environment and sound—how landscapes, seasons, and philosophies influence the way we create and experience music.

His journey is one of listening deeply, learning continuously, and experimenting with sound across timescapes and terrains.

Hear his recent talk at TEDX to know more about him https://youtu.be/_C23MEeAxSE?si=W4wzzq1nsHoTjCZS

His website https://visheshkalimero.com/

His instagram https://www.instagram.com/vishesh.kalimero

Intuitive Singing €80 – €100

2nd August, Saturday 10-16

The voice is our first musical instrument, and singing is one of the most instinctive ways we express emotion—whether it’s a fleeting feeling or a life-changing experience.

This workshop is about building an authentic, embodied relationship with your singing voice. Drawing from physical and vocal techniques found across diverse musical traditions, we’ll engage both body and mind to listen deeply and work together as one. Rather than focusing on singing songs from established musical forms, we’ll explore musicality through a series of guided exercises, games, and meditations.

These practices will help us experience the body more sensorily and uncover sounds that feel personally meaningful. The goal is to gently dismantle the idea of an “ideal” singing voice. Instead of chasing how we should sound, we’ll move toward discovering what truly sounds like us. It’s an exploration, powered by simple processes—yet it holds the potential to be deeply transformative.

Throat Singing €50

3rd August, Sunday 10-12:30

An intense and playful vocal workshop where we explore an expanded range of the throat’s sonic possibilities—contracting and expanding the vocal cords to access the deep, resonant power of throat singing.

In throat singing we modulate our natural voice to a low pitched growl with subharmonics. It fills the space with a resonance, resembling the wild power of nature. It is a rarity to find a sound that is so powerful yet it carries harmony in its essence.

In this workshop, we’ll dive into various throat singing styles and traditions, learning through experimentation, imitation, and listening. Expect to uncover sounds that are strange, powerful, hilarious, or even a little unsettling. This is a welcoming space for curious beginners and experienced vocal explorers alike. If you feel a primal pull when you hear the throat singing of Mongolia, Tibet, Siberia, or the Inuit peoples, this workshop is for you.

Somatic Listening €50

3rd August, Sunday 13:30-16

It’s a rare experience to truly listen—fully, deeply—and then respond. This workshop offers that opportunity by inviting us to witness how sound interacts with our entire being. Beyond the ears and the mind—what else begins to move?

Somatic listening is the art of tuning into the subtle sensations, vibrations, and resonances within the body. It’s a practice of becoming aware of how sound moves through us, stirs emotion, and awakens memory.

In this workshop, we don’t stop at hearing. We listen—and then let the body sing back. Through improvisation, we create a space to respond without the interference of the intellect, using voice, movement, and stillness. Deep listening becomes an expanded form of perception.

This is a space for exploration, curiosity, and play—a space to let go of overthinking and drop into felt experience. Somatic Listening is an invitation to evolve your relationship with sound, with silence, and with yourself.