\n\u2605<\/span> Meike<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1591696238611{background-color: #000000 !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n
Le Chemin des Femmes is a feminist women’s choir that promotes musical research and civil resistance through the female voice.<\/span><\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\nFounded and directed by Meike Clarelli<\/strong>, vocal researcher, singer and teacher of Sensitive Singing<\/em>, its goals include restoring, through work on songs and vocal research, the value of women and their resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_hoverbox image=”5361″ primary_title=”MANIFESTO.” hover_title=”Le Chemin des Femmes sings and resists” hover_align=”left” hover_title_font_container=”font_size:20|color:%23ed1140″ hover_title_use_theme_fonts=”yes” use_custom_fonts_hover_title=”true”]\nfor women, for men, intersex, for those who identify with one gender and those who want to get out of it, but also for those who want to cross them all; for those who are gay, lesbian, bi, trans, and those who are not; for those who are migrants and those who do not move; for the romantic and the cynical, for those who believe in a God, for those who are animists and for those who are atheists; for those we love and for those who, unknown, are beside us.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\nShe sings above all to tell and reiterate that what is particular and different in its subjective uniqueness should not feel constrained or forced to conform to everything else … but on the contrary has the right to feel free and free to desire and be as she wishes.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_hoverbox][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” parallax=”content-moving”][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_accordion style=”flat” c_icon=”chevron” active_section=”1″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Who we are” tab_id=”1591699515691-f36d31b8-aa72″][vc_column_text]\n
“Our choir is intergenerational and cross-cultural.
\nIt unites professional and non-professional women, holds together women who are very different from each other: some of them are religious, some of them are anarchists, some of them are very young women about to meet life, some of them are mothers, some of them have a lifetime of experience behind them.
\nThese diversities over time have taught us to understand what the practices of inclusion, listening, tolerance, freedom, play and resistance mean. They taught us to face fear and joy together. They taught us to be distinct and together at the same time.
\nKeeping this chorus alive was finally for us to enact concrete artistic, cultural and political actions.
\nResistance goes through the voice, becomes a voice-and when we sing, the diversity of each of us is embodied in one voice.”<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/h5>\n
Le Chemin des Femmes<\/strong> was born in November 2008 as a result of a Sensitive Singing workshop within the “Semira Adamu” project of the House of Women Against Violence in Modena<\/a> and within a short time became a full-fledged choir. The
\n Sensitive Singing<\/b>
\n<\/a>, developed by Meike Clarelli herself, is a singing method that integrates various techniques directed at the voice, body perception and breath and that are aimed at the acquisition of an awareness of one’s own vocality. <\/span><\/p>\nThe initial ensemble consists of women from different cultural backgrounds, united by a common passion for singing and the experience of migration. The women in the choir had had the courage to leave their country, sometimes their family, driven by the desire to find a better life and fulfill their plans through the experience of migration. A number of Italian women joined the chorus driven by a desire to learn about and meet musicalities different from their own, who share an experience of migration within the Italian territory and an inner flexibility, as well as a precarious life that makes them also feel somehow “migrant.” <\/span>In its ten years of existence, the choir has seen over 50 female choristers from at least fifteen countries: the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Morocco, Moldova, Ukraine, Argentina, the United States of America, Spain (Basque Country) as well as, of course, Italy.<\/span><\/p>\nIn recent years, more women have joined, not necessarily from different backgrounds or with migration experience; at the same time, the African component of the choir has begun to participate more flexibly, and the label of a migrant women’s choir is beginning to fit tighter and tighter: le Chemin des Femmes is above all a chorus of women united by a desire to sing and resist through voice.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nThe choir currently has about 20 members and is open to the entry of new women. <\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”The director” tab_id=”1591700063753-2b18d342-0fd0″][vc_column_text]\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/collettivoamigdala.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Meike-Clarelli-01.jpg\")
<\/span><\/p>\nMeike Clarelli<\/h5>\n
Musician and vocal researcher with a diverse background ranging from music, theater, and poetry. He graduated in 2001 from the Emilia Romagna Teatri School for Actors in Modena, where he worked with directors and actors such as: Monica Klinger, Cesar Brie, Raffaella Giordano, Stefano Vercelli, Magda Siti, Mamadou Dioume.
\nHe is attending the University of Contemporary Music and Jazz, at the Frescobaldi Conservatory of Ferrara.
\nHe later studied singing and vocal pedagogy with Imke Buchholz McMurtrie<\/b> (Germany), folk\/ethnic singing with Germana Giannini<\/b>, and began in 2001 with Elisa Benassi<\/b> a course of study on psychophonetic singing and psychophony.
\nIn 2004 he studied Sufi singing with music-therapist Alev Naqiba Kowalez. He studied Chinese music and Er Ou (traditional violin) with Master Wong in China. From 2003 to 2007 he studied opera singing with teacher Paola Matarrese. He has studied classical guitar, martial arts and Chinese medicine and has a background in psychoanalysis.
\nHe has developed in recent years a methodology for working on the voice called Sensitive Singing<\/i> which he has been teaching in Modena since 2004, in Bologna since 2015 and of which he holds seminars in various cities in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\nIn 2008 she founded the Women’s Choir “Le Chemin des Femmes<\/b>,” consisting of Italian women together with women from various parts of the world, which she still directs.
\nThe same year he founded the music group
\n La Metralli<\/b>
\n<\/a>, in which she is a singer and composer, winner of the 2012 Ciampi Prize and selected for the 2014 Tenco Prize. Since 2016 he has joined as a singer and multi-instrumentalist in the music collective <\/b>Two Winds<\/strong><\/a> <\/b>which blends improvised music with electronic, jazz, contemporary and rock music.
\nSince 2014 he has been a member of the Collective Amigdala<\/b> who produces perfomative installation works, as a sound dramaturge and is co-director artistic director of the
\n Peripheral Festival<\/strong>
\n<\/a>.<\/i><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”The experience of female choristers” tab_id=”1591701806539-88c6bba4-b4b0″][vc_column_text]\n
\n “I like it because the image it brings out is of a diversity society that is politically new and of resistance through voice.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i>– Benedetta<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n “It gave me the joy of life, Le Chemin des Femmes is a combination of madness, anarchy and joy.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i>– Lisa<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n “I remember once in the early days we got into Meike’s panda in a dozen or so and sang around the block at the Women’s House in Modena.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i>– Ernestine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n“Meike urges us to bring out the crazy part of us: I once in the improvisation sniffed my armpit with a passionate gesture, and it’s a gesture that we have even replayed at the Modena Conservatory.”<\/span>
\n<\/i>– Luciana<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n “We bought white and blonde wigs following the teaching of our African friends.” <\/span>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i>– Maria Elena<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n “At one concert, to promote our CD, I used to pull it out from under my skirt.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i>– Gabriella<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n“It took us many years to understand the different attitude of African women toward ‘rehearsing’: for them singing is spontaneous, playful, irreverent, sensual even when it has a spiritual and religious meaning. And in such a view for them, rehearsals are meaningless: you sing by living in the moment – and that’s it!<\/i>“<\/span>
\n– Meike<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n“We call ourselves anarchists, more because of our habit of doing things instinctively and passionately. Meike is capable of twisting a song during the rehearsal before a concert, making us panic! Our strength I think is the energy we convey as a group, able to cope with change with confidence in our director’s artistic gaze and our resilience…it is these aspects that create a kind of magic that accompanies us to every concert, despite our ‘bananas’ (a term coined with Ghanaian friends to define mistakes).”<\/span>
\n<\/i>– Maria Elena<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n
\n “I like this union of cultures because it creates a new identity, and that in itself is art.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n <\/i>
\n – <\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\n Benedetta<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n “I liked it right away because of this spontaneity and taste of thrill, creating something beautiful and meaningful from making do.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i>– Fulvia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n “It’s a different, non-traditional choir that experiments and mixes different skills, cultures, and manages to get the best result.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i>– Alexandra<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n
\n “I came in to sing with some freedom of expression, and I like it because we do crazy things without giving much importance to technique.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n <\/i>
\n – <\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\n Georgina<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n “We share in a space of freedom on another level of the deep things that bind us anyway, the emotional energy of being among women, connected to roots, to nature.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i>– Luciana<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n “Working on the voice founds its own sound identity and collectively gives itself as a female identity, strong and almost warrior-like. These women are alive and are able to channel it into song; we found a way to show this beauty they have in singing.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i>– Meike<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”The proposal” tab_id=”1591707826958-58266d53-53f3″][vc_column_text]\n
\n Le Chemin des Femmes works with improvisation and vocal polyphony, using voices as instruments<\/span>
\n .<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\n <\/p>\n Rehearsals are also a time of composition from which experimental pieces are constructed that speak of the freedom of human beings, particularly women. <\/strong>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\nThe repertoire at first drew from the cultural and musical substrate that each woman in the course of the meetings freely delivered to the group and that Meike rearranged. Over the years, contaminations from the pop world and contemporary music have also been added: today the choir sings songs that draw from the Ghanaian tradition to Brazilian and Afro-American, classical, pop and punk, in a mixture of melodies and popular themes from different geographical and cultural origins <\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\nLe Chemin des Femmes benefits from the valuable collaboration of musician Davide Fasulo, who helps arrange the songs and writes the scores. <\/span><\/p>\nHow crazy is that? The choir has a director who as a true artist is really crazy, but the individual singers are no less! Le Chemin des Femmes seeks to break conformity, sometimes with irreverent actions, giving birth to a style outside the lines, intended to be not only artistic expression, but also political and cultural.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Our Companions: Le Core” tab_id=”1591699515691-f14ce75a-0aa9″][vc_column_text]
\n
\n The Cores – unruly voices<\/strong>
\n <\/em>
\n<\/a> is a young women’s choir born in Bologna from the vocal workshop organized by the
\n Jaya Association<\/strong>
\n<\/a>, which gathers the experience and repertoire of Le Chemin des Femmes, declining it with its own strongly feminist, combative and intergenerational sensibility in the Bologna area. Together they bring to life a cohort in its rich and plural complexity of women of different generations, cultures, backgrounds, sexual orientation and social backgrounds.<\/p>\nThe two choirs have been collaborating for years in the realization of special projects, concerts, moments of training and research. <\/strong>They are like a single choir made up of two souls who feel at the same time the forces and thrusts of the territories they belong to: Modena and Bologna.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/collettivoamigdala.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CHEMINCORE_030-1024x683.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]\n\nFollow us.<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″][vc_single_image image=”5393″ img_size=”70×70″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chemindesfemmes\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″][vc_single_image image=”5394″ img_size=”70×70″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTG-D3fE6TN2m5mOE30rMrA”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” parallax=”content-moving” css=”.vc_custom_1591696806923{background-color: #d60039 !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591696964780{margin-bottom: -30px !important;}”]\nThere is something in the voice
\nresisting.<\/span>
\n<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n(Gabriele Dalla Barba)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\nTHE TREASURE.<\/span>
\nUNDER FEET.<\/span>
\n\u266a Soundtrack<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nIn 2013 he participated, together with The Metralli<\/a><\/strong>, in the recording of the soundtrack of the documentary <\/span>“The Treasure Underfoot<\/a>,”<\/b> produced by. <\/span>Iscos Onlus Emilia Romagna.
\n<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QvcNp8Dgby8″][vc_column_text]Mozambique: a country somewhere between a race for development and savage exploitation. Rights denied and environment at risk told by the voice of those who fight every day to defend the way of life, traditions and health of entire villages from “multinational coal companies.”
\nMozambique, 2013 – Duration: 27\u2032:37\u2033<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\nTHERE IS SOMETHING IN THE VOICE THAT RESISTS<\/span>
\n\u266a The first CD<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nIn 2015 he released his first album, dedicated to Vida Kotei and all women who resist.
\nVoices: <\/strong>Maria Elena Rossi, Lisa Severo, Georgina Asante, Luciana Talamonti, Rose Mary Somuah, Nadine Fomen, Doris Awhumey, Alessandra Bertoli, Fulvia Gasparini, Gabriella Dritta, Benedetta Zangb\u00e8, Ilia Montani.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n To request copies of the CD, write to us at<\/strong>
\n<\/span> lechemindesfemmes@libero.it<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”flexslider_slide” interval=”3″ images=”5363,5364,5387,5388,5389″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\nLE CHEMIN DES FEMMES<\/span>
\n\u266a Audiodocumentary<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nIn 2017 he is featured in an audiodocumentary signed by journalist Giulia Bondi<\/strong>, <\/span>aired on Swiss Radio RSI 14\/02\/2017.
\n\u2605 Finalist at
\n Bastion\/Film Festival on the Music of Migrant Cultures.<\/strong>
\n <\/p>\n<\/i><\/span>The choir director and some of the singers talk about their love for music, the relationships they have built in nine years of working together, and their own desire to “endure through voice.”
\nThe stories are interspersed with songs, moments from rehearsals and performances, under the banner of experimentation and fusion of very different sounds, from folk to pop to electronic.
\nItaly, 2016, Director: Giulia Bondi – Duration: 26′<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”LISTEN HERE!” style=”flat” shape=”square” color=”juicy-pink” align=”center” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsi.ch%2Frete-due%2Fprogrammi%2Fcultura%2Flaser%2FLe-Chemin-des-femmes-8689135.html|target:%20_blank|”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\nI AM THE MONDINA, I AM THE EXPLOITED<\/span>
\n\u266a Registration<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nIn 2018 he recorded “Son la mondina, son la exploited,”<\/b> <\/span>a track that was born from the collaboration with the historic choir of the
\n Mondine of Novi<\/strong>
\n<\/a> who in turn made a record asking various artists, including Paolo Fresu<\/strong>, Ginevra di Marco<\/strong>, and
\n La Metralli<\/strong>
\n<\/a> to rearrange some songs from their repertoire: here they also sing Le Chemin des femmes and le Core<\/a> <\/strong>. The popular song has been reinterpreted in an afrobeat and electro-soul key.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”5386″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Corevociindisciplinate\/videos\/428555511291666\/”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column]Collaborazioni<\/h3><\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”5372″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]\nTHE WOMEN’S HOUSE
for women, for men, intersex, for those who identify with one gender and those who want to get out of it, but also for those who want to cross them all; for those who are gay, lesbian, bi, trans, and those who are not; for those who are migrants and those who do not move; for the romantic and the cynical, for those who believe in a God, for those who are animists and for those who are atheists; for those we love and for those who, unknown, are beside us.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n She sings above all to tell and reiterate that what is particular and different in its subjective uniqueness should not feel constrained or forced to conform to everything else … but on the contrary has the right to feel free and free to desire and be as she wishes.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_hoverbox][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” parallax=”content-moving”][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_accordion style=”flat” c_icon=”chevron” active_section=”1″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Who we are” tab_id=”1591699515691-f36d31b8-aa72″][vc_column_text]\n “Our choir is intergenerational and cross-cultural. Le Chemin des Femmes<\/strong> was born in November 2008 as a result of a Sensitive Singing workshop within the “Semira Adamu” project of the House of Women Against Violence in Modena<\/a> and within a short time became a full-fledged choir. The The initial ensemble consists of women from different cultural backgrounds, united by a common passion for singing and the experience of migration. The women in the choir had had the courage to leave their country, sometimes their family, driven by the desire to find a better life and fulfill their plans through the experience of migration. A number of Italian women joined the chorus driven by a desire to learn about and meet musicalities different from their own, who share an experience of migration within the Italian territory and an inner flexibility, as well as a precarious life that makes them also feel somehow “migrant.” <\/span>In its ten years of existence, the choir has seen over 50 female choristers from at least fifteen countries: the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Morocco, Moldova, Ukraine, Argentina, the United States of America, Spain (Basque Country) as well as, of course, Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n In recent years, more women have joined, not necessarily from different backgrounds or with migration experience; at the same time, the African component of the choir has begun to participate more flexibly, and the label of a migrant women’s choir is beginning to fit tighter and tighter: le Chemin des Femmes is above all a chorus of women united by a desire to sing and resist through voice.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The choir currently has about 20 members and is open to the entry of new women. <\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”The director” tab_id=”1591700063753-2b18d342-0fd0″][vc_column_text]\n Musician and vocal researcher with a diverse background ranging from music, theater, and poetry. He graduated in 2001 from the Emilia Romagna Teatri School for Actors in Modena, where he worked with directors and actors such as: Monica Klinger, Cesar Brie, Raffaella Giordano, Stefano Vercelli, Magda Siti, Mamadou Dioume. In 2008 she founded the Women’s Choir “Le Chemin des Femmes<\/b>,” consisting of Italian women together with women from various parts of the world, which she still directs. <\/i>– Benedetta<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/i>– Lisa<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/i>– Ernestine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “Meike urges us to bring out the crazy part of us: I once in the improvisation sniffed my armpit with a passionate gesture, and it’s a gesture that we have even replayed at the Modena Conservatory.”<\/span> <\/i>– Maria Elena<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/i>– Gabriella<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “It took us many years to understand the different attitude of African women toward ‘rehearsing’: for them singing is spontaneous, playful, irreverent, sensual even when it has a spiritual and religious meaning. And in such a view for them, rehearsals are meaningless: you sing by living in the moment – and that’s it!<\/i>“<\/span> “We call ourselves anarchists, more because of our habit of doing things instinctively and passionately. Meike is capable of twisting a song during the rehearsal before a concert, making us panic! Our strength I think is the energy we convey as a group, able to cope with change with confidence in our director’s artistic gaze and our resilience…it is these aspects that create a kind of magic that accompanies us to every concert, despite our ‘bananas’ (a term coined with Ghanaian friends to define mistakes).”<\/span> <\/i> <\/i>– Fulvia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/i>– Alexandra<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/i> <\/i>– Luciana<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/i>– Meike<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”The proposal” tab_id=”1591707826958-58266d53-53f3″][vc_column_text]\n Rehearsals are also a time of composition from which experimental pieces are constructed that speak of the freedom of human beings, particularly women. <\/strong> The repertoire at first drew from the cultural and musical substrate that each woman in the course of the meetings freely delivered to the group and that Meike rearranged. Over the years, contaminations from the pop world and contemporary music have also been added: today the choir sings songs that draw from the Ghanaian tradition to Brazilian and Afro-American, classical, pop and punk, in a mixture of melodies and popular themes from different geographical and cultural origins <\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n Le Chemin des Femmes benefits from the valuable collaboration of musician Davide Fasulo, who helps arrange the songs and writes the scores. <\/span><\/p>\n How crazy is that? The choir has a director who as a true artist is really crazy, but the individual singers are no less! Le Chemin des Femmes seeks to break conformity, sometimes with irreverent actions, giving birth to a style outside the lines, intended to be not only artistic expression, but also political and cultural.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Our Companions: Le Core” tab_id=”1591699515691-f14ce75a-0aa9″][vc_column_text] The two choirs have been collaborating for years in the realization of special projects, concerts, moments of training and research. <\/strong>They are like a single choir made up of two souls who feel at the same time the forces and thrusts of the territories they belong to: Modena and Bologna.<\/p>\n (Gabriele Dalla Barba)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\n In 2013 he participated, together with The Metralli<\/a><\/strong>, in the recording of the soundtrack of the documentary <\/span>“The Treasure Underfoot<\/a>,”<\/b> produced by. <\/span>Iscos Onlus Emilia Romagna. In 2015 he released his first album, dedicated to Vida Kotei and all women who resist. In 2017 he is featured in an audiodocumentary signed by journalist Giulia Bondi<\/strong>, <\/span>aired on Swiss Radio RSI 14\/02\/2017. <\/i><\/span>The choir director and some of the singers talk about their love for music, the relationships they have built in nine years of working together, and their own desire to “endure through voice.” In 2018 he recorded “Son la mondina, son la exploited,”<\/b> <\/span>a track that was born from the collaboration with the historic choir of the
\nIt unites professional and non-professional women, holds together women who are very different from each other: some of them are religious, some of them are anarchists, some of them are very young women about to meet life, some of them are mothers, some of them have a lifetime of experience behind them.
\nThese diversities over time have taught us to understand what the practices of inclusion, listening, tolerance, freedom, play and resistance mean. They taught us to face fear and joy together. They taught us to be distinct and together at the same time.
\nKeeping this chorus alive was finally for us to enact concrete artistic, cultural and political actions.
\nResistance goes through the voice, becomes a voice-and when we sing, the diversity of each of us is embodied in one voice.”<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/h5>\n
\n Sensitive Singing<\/b>
\n<\/a>, developed by Meike Clarelli herself, is a singing method that integrates various techniques directed at the voice, body perception and breath and that are aimed at the acquisition of an awareness of one’s own vocality. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\nMeike Clarelli<\/h5>\n
\nHe is attending the University of Contemporary Music and Jazz, at the Frescobaldi Conservatory of Ferrara.
\nHe later studied singing and vocal pedagogy with Imke Buchholz McMurtrie<\/b> (Germany), folk\/ethnic singing with Germana Giannini<\/b>, and began in 2001 with Elisa Benassi<\/b> a course of study on psychophonetic singing and psychophony.
\nIn 2004 he studied Sufi singing with music-therapist Alev Naqiba Kowalez. He studied Chinese music and Er Ou (traditional violin) with Master Wong in China. From 2003 to 2007 he studied opera singing with teacher Paola Matarrese. He has studied classical guitar, martial arts and Chinese medicine and has a background in psychoanalysis.
\nHe has developed in recent years a methodology for working on the voice called Sensitive Singing<\/i> which he has been teaching in Modena since 2004, in Bologna since 2015 and of which he holds seminars in various cities in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe same year he founded the music group
\n La Metralli<\/b>
\n<\/a>, in which she is a singer and composer, winner of the 2012 Ciampi Prize and selected for the 2014 Tenco Prize. Since 2016 he has joined as a singer and multi-instrumentalist in the music collective <\/b>Two Winds<\/strong><\/a> <\/b>which blends improvised music with electronic, jazz, contemporary and rock music.
\nSince 2014 he has been a member of the Collective Amigdala<\/b> who produces perfomative installation works, as a sound dramaturge and is co-director artistic director of the
\n Peripheral Festival<\/strong>
\n<\/a>.<\/i><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”The experience of female choristers” tab_id=”1591701806539-88c6bba4-b4b0″][vc_column_text]\n
\n “I like it because the image it brings out is of a diversity society that is politically new and of resistance through voice.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n “It gave me the joy of life, Le Chemin des Femmes is a combination of madness, anarchy and joy.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n “I remember once in the early days we got into Meike’s panda in a dozen or so and sang around the block at the Women’s House in Modena.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n<\/i>– Luciana<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n “We bought white and blonde wigs following the teaching of our African friends.” <\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n “At one concert, to promote our CD, I used to pull it out from under my skirt.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n– Meike<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/i>– Maria Elena<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n
\n “I like this union of cultures because it creates a new identity, and that in itself is art.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n – <\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\n Benedetta<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n “I liked it right away because of this spontaneity and taste of thrill, creating something beautiful and meaningful from making do.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n “It’s a different, non-traditional choir that experiments and mixes different skills, cultures, and manages to get the best result.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n
\n “I came in to sing with some freedom of expression, and I like it because we do crazy things without giving much importance to technique.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n – <\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\n Georgina<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n “We share in a space of freedom on another level of the deep things that bind us anyway, the emotional energy of being among women, connected to roots, to nature.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n “Working on the voice founds its own sound identity and collectively gives itself as a female identity, strong and almost warrior-like. These women are alive and are able to channel it into song; we found a way to show this beauty they have in singing.”<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n
\n Le Chemin des Femmes works with improvisation and vocal polyphony, using voices as instruments<\/span>
\n .<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\n <\/p>\n
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n
\n
\n The Cores – unruly voices<\/strong>
\n <\/em>
\n<\/a> is a young women’s choir born in Bologna from the vocal workshop organized by the
\n Jaya Association<\/strong>
\n<\/a>, which gathers the experience and repertoire of Le Chemin des Femmes, declining it with its own strongly feminist, combative and intergenerational sensibility in the Bologna area. Together they bring to life a cohort in its rich and plural complexity of women of different generations, cultures, backgrounds, sexual orientation and social backgrounds.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″]\nFollow us.<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″][vc_single_image image=”5393″ img_size=”70×70″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chemindesfemmes\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″][vc_single_image image=”5394″ img_size=”70×70″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTG-D3fE6TN2m5mOE30rMrA”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” parallax=”content-moving” css=”.vc_custom_1591696806923{background-color: #d60039 !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1591696964780{margin-bottom: -30px !important;}”]\n
There is something in the voice
\nresisting.<\/span>
\n<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\nTHE TREASURE.<\/span>
\nUNDER FEET.<\/span>
\n\u266a Soundtrack<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n
\n<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QvcNp8Dgby8″][vc_column_text]Mozambique: a country somewhere between a race for development and savage exploitation. Rights denied and environment at risk told by the voice of those who fight every day to defend the way of life, traditions and health of entire villages from “multinational coal companies.”
\nMozambique, 2013 – Duration: 27\u2032:37\u2033<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\nTHERE IS SOMETHING IN THE VOICE THAT RESISTS<\/span>
\n\u266a The first CD<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n
\nVoices: <\/strong>Maria Elena Rossi, Lisa Severo, Georgina Asante, Luciana Talamonti, Rose Mary Somuah, Nadine Fomen, Doris Awhumey, Alessandra Bertoli, Fulvia Gasparini, Gabriella Dritta, Benedetta Zangb\u00e8, Ilia Montani.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n To request copies of the CD, write to us at<\/strong>
\n<\/span> lechemindesfemmes@libero.it<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”flexslider_slide” interval=”3″ images=”5363,5364,5387,5388,5389″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\nLE CHEMIN DES FEMMES<\/span>
\n\u266a Audiodocumentary<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n
\n\u2605 Finalist at
\n Bastion\/Film Festival on the Music of Migrant Cultures.<\/strong>
\n <\/p>\n
\nThe stories are interspersed with songs, moments from rehearsals and performances, under the banner of experimentation and fusion of very different sounds, from folk to pop to electronic.
\nItaly, 2016, Director: Giulia Bondi – Duration: 26′<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”LISTEN HERE!” style=”flat” shape=”square” color=”juicy-pink” align=”center” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsi.ch%2Frete-due%2Fprogrammi%2Fcultura%2Flaser%2FLe-Chemin-des-femmes-8689135.html|target:%20_blank|”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]\nI AM THE MONDINA, I AM THE EXPLOITED<\/span>
\n\u266a Registration<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n
\n Mondine of Novi<\/strong>
\n<\/a> who in turn made a record asking various artists, including Paolo Fresu<\/strong>, Ginevra di Marco<\/strong>, and
\n La Metralli<\/strong>
\n<\/a> to rearrange some songs from their repertoire: here they also sing Le Chemin des femmes and le Core<\/a> <\/strong>. The popular song has been reinterpreted in an afrobeat and electro-soul key.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”5386″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Corevociindisciplinate\/videos\/428555511291666\/”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column]Collaborazioni<\/h3><\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”5372″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]\n
THE WOMEN’S HOUSE