Soundmakers project update – November 2024

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About the Soundmakers Project

Years ago, singer Ineke Vandoorn and guitarist/composer Marc van Vugt, met Canadian conductor/singer/improvisor Christine Duncan who works with so-called “Soundmakers” in Toronto: People from diverse backgrounds, who enjoy using their voices, but would not necessarily identify themselves as singers. Guided by Christine’s cues they improvise soundscapes, texts, rhythms, emotions and create whole worlds. Sometimes the Soundmakers perform alone, but they also assist in concerts with other artists, such as world-renowned inuit singer Tanya Tagaq.

During one of our Canadian tours, we attended a rehearsal of the Soundmakers in Toronto and were immediately super excited. Not only because Christine Duncan is a phenomenon and we are crazy about the voice anyway, but also because working with Soundmakers allows you to collaborate with a group of people you normally don’t share the stage with. For that reason, we invited Christine Duncan to do a project with us in Jan 2024 for which we combined our music with soundscapes performed by a group of Dutch Soundmakers led by Christine Duncan. This project was performed with different groups of a total of 75 Soundmakers in Houten, Arnhem and Den Bosch. There was a final recording in Houten in which 50 Soundmakers from Houten, Den Bosch and Arnhem participated.

Video credits

Ineke Vandoorn vocals, Christine Duncan conducting and vocals, Marc van Vugt guitars

SOUNDMAKERS

Hilda Wartena
Harry Rikken
Wil Groen
Harald van Kesteren
Margreet Mollink
Irene Antoniesen
Karin Hernandez
Anneloes Olieman
Laura Wetzer
Anne marie Brouwers
José van Vugt
Bep Odijk
Mariëlle Lapidaire
Ditje Schipper
Irene van Meijgaard
Jan van Boekel
Vera Warnecke
Gerard Peters
Martine Bier
Leidy Zoeteman
Ellen van Veldhuizen
Annet Scheringa
Floor de Groot
José Breden
Rob van de Ven
Elizabet van der Kooij
Paul Hendrix
Tilja Ansems
Linda Flipse
Taeke Overdijk
Franklin Postema
Roxane Gantert
Albert ter Haar
Karin van Gent
Hanneke Glaudemans
Karien van Hedel
Marloes Kuiters
Ingrid Rernirie
Jolanda Burg
Martha Talma
Helga van Geldrop
Carlina De Lorenzo
Sabine Werre
Marte Ruinen
Marianne Heemskerk
Joke Egtberts
Marijke Faber
Mercè de Miguel Capdevila
Simonette van der Kuip

Compositions Marc van Vugt

Lyrics Ineke Vandoorn

Video Max Boeree

Sound recording Frans de Rond

Live sound Quinten den Hertog

Thanks to
Vocal Vibes Arnhem, Elke Jansen, Jazzwerkplaats Den Bosch, Jeroen Doomernik, Sander Jongen, SENA, VSB Fonds, Aan de Slinger, Arjen Berends, Gemeente Houten, Gemeente Arnhem, Carel Nengerman Fonds, Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds, ArtEZ University of the Arts, BAIXIM Music Productions

©2024 BAIXIM Music Publishing

Christine Duncan

A musical chameleon, Christine Duncan uses her voice as an instrument, in a wide range of diverse musical styles She is involved in everything from jazz, R&B, gospel, improvised music, sound poetry, to new music, opera, and musique actuelle. She performs with many musical groups and projects, notably with Hugh Fraser’s VEJI (Vancouver Ensemble of Jazz Improvisation) since the mid 1990’s, and Barnyard Drama with drummer/electronic artist Jean Martin, since 2002, and is part of the Barnyard Records family, the label run by Martin. She created and directs the Element Choir, an improvising choir in Toronto, active since 2007. Christine and the Element Choir have been performing with inuit throat singer/experimental vocalist Tanya Tagaq since 2014, and she performs with Tagaq on voice and theremin as well. For the last few years, as a community engagement outreach, Christine has been touring, putting together and training volunteer, improvising choirs to perform in concerts, with Tagaq and her band, and with other musical ensembles, both in Canada, and internationally. Duncan and Tagaq have also been performing their piece Qiksaaktuq, (by Martin, Duncan and Tagaq) for the last couple of years, with Symphony Orchestras, in Canada and internationally. An active educator, Duncan has been teaching in the jazz programs at Humber College and the University of Toronto since 2003.

Ineke Vandoorn & Marc van Vugt

With fairy-like sounds, funky arrangements, modern music full of harrowing and twisting harmonies and sadly comforting songs, singer/pianist Ineke Vandoorn and her partner in music composer/guitarist Marc van Vugt explore boundaries in an admirable and fascinating way: between improvisation and composition, in original songs with regular lyrics and in pure improvisations, by giving their characteristic interpretation of standards or by amalgation of different musical expressions.

In the intimacy of a duo, trio or quartet, and with surprising and original crossovers with a chamber choir or a full orchestra, Like the Dutch Metropole Orchestra or the Dutch Chamber choir. Jazz as a conception is reinvented time after time; Fantasy, technical skill and willpower as a guarantee for a primal emotional impact: Music that will reverberate in your head for a long time.

Marc and Ineke released 13 cd’s. Their original approach has taken them to clubs and festivals over the world, including Canada, USA, France, Germany, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Austria, Macedonia and Hungary. They recorded and performed with renown musicians like Kenny Wheeler (UK), Robin Eubanks (USA), Sylvain Beuf (F), Andy Sheppard (UK), Don Thompson (CA), David Linx (F), Norma Winstone (UK), Mario Pavone (USA),Thomas Chapin (USA), Paul van Kemenade (NL). 

Invited by the Dutch state they worked and lived for two years in the Vandoesburghuis, Paris. Both Ineke and Marc are experienced teachers. Ineke’s 300-page book ‘Singing from the inside out’ (ArtEZ University Press) was released in 2016 and is being used in schools and universities all over the world.