Anthropos: Songs of Humanity sings from the common well of our ancestors near and far in place and time, from the seeds of anonymous collective song around the Earth. From our shared passion for spontaneous song and the many voices inside and around us that come alive when we travel together into the unknown, breathe, listen, feel and follow. 

 

We began in 2019, exploring and reimagining the roots of singing, before and beyond language, aiming to express many shades of humanity through our voices and sound.  Asking ourselves:  why did our ancestors sing? can our music, here and now, be fresh and yet ancient, woven with landscapes and stories, with the cycles of Nature?

 

We acknowledge that the origins of what we now call ‘vocal improvisation’ are in the cellular memory of humanity, in the many musical practices that have been part of the fabric of human life on Earth for thousands of years.

 

Our pieces are instant collaborative compositions. Our music has resonance, texture, archetypes, play, shifting forms in motion, vignettes of human life. Often when we sing live and everyone’s joining, our songs seem to envelop the space, bridging any separation between audience and performer.

 

We believe in making music as a process of sharing, rather than a product. We feel enlivened by the beauty and richness of ‘singing with’ rather than ‘performing for’. A reminder of our innate musicality, of the intelligence of the body and of sound’s potential to create community.

Our workshops, The Singing Village, are an invitation to explore the many possibilities of voices coming together in spontaneous music-making. Connecting everyone in movement and song, making fresh, collaborative music, helping to rewild the roots of folklore.

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Current members: 

Guillermo Rozenthuler 

Jaka Škapin 

Kate Smith 

Sylvia Schmidt