ABOUT VOX MUNDI
THE VISION
The transformative power of sound and music is unquestionable.
The field of Sound and Music in Healing is becoming
increasingly in demand of qualified professionals with
an integral East-West approach that includes the physical,
musical, psycho-acoustic, clinical, and spiritual dimensions
of sound. Expressing the inherent musicality of the
voice is a human necessity. The capacity to listen to
music and to sing is also a human need. Both these aspects
help attaining a healthy condition of the body, mind
and soul. Singing is thus a tool to transform consciousness
and emotional and physical dysfunction. Chanting and
singing are coordinated activities that include the
whole body, our perceptual processes, and the quality
of our experience. Technique and knowledge empower the
capacity of the voice, and there is an essential kind
of listening that happens when the body and the mind
focus on the onset of tone. The presence is relaxed
and aware. The singer, the teacher, and the music becomes
one. The inborn therapeutic potential of the voice is
realized
THE PROJECT
The Vox Mundi Project (Voice of the Worlds) is an international
non-profit organization devoted to teaching and preserving
the richness of indigenous musical traditions, combining
music, service and spiritual practice.
The project promotes research of multi-ethnic expression
of vocal music and is committed to revitalize the experience
of singing as a transformative art through schools,
health centers, institutions and individuals everywhere.
The events offer the experience of a diverse range of
vocal arts as part of one united vision: the human search
for expression.
The programs combine preservation of recordings of
ancient and unusual vocal arts, performances, and the
sponsorship of the Vox Mundi School of the Voice that
offers training programs for teachers and students throughout
the USA, Europe, India, Argentina and Brazil.
The Vox Mundi Project was founded in 1988 by award-winning
composer, psychologist and voice-culturist Silvia Nakkach.
The project is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with
centers around the world. The first series of programs
took place in Rome, Italy, and Tunisia, sponsored by
the Institute of Italian Culture, since then the project
have produced events, seminars, and festivals throughout
the world, with various co-sponsors like Coca Cola in
Brazil, and the Exploratorium and Palace of Fine Arts
Museum, in San Francisco.
Sharing the experience of creative singing among participants,
the Singing the World Music Festivals, produced by Vox
Mundi are committed to demonstrate, to share, and to
revitalize the power of the singing voice to transform
human emotions, transmit social messages, and to integrate
cultural diversity into a unique universal musical language.
The Vox Mundi purpose includes:
• To offer education and training through systematic
instruction, tools, guidance and an in-depth understanding
of the transformative power of sound in consciousness
and in healing processes
• To create certificate, academic programs, and
study groups abroad to train professional sound practitioners
on the therapeutic applications, and traditional indigenous
sound medicine
• To increase the use of sound, chanting and
music in Health Care Centers
• To revitalize the experience of singing as
a sacred art
• To support the human search for expression
• To re-enchant the world with harmonic energy
and the reawakening of sacred music
THE SCHOOL
Through private, public and academic seminars, the
Vox Mundi School offers instruction on the theory and
practice of sound, voice, chanting, and transformation
of consciousness, and how these art forms can be incorporated
into our daily and professional life as:
healing arts
service
spiritual practice
The innovative courses offer an in-depth exploration
of sound and the voice as instruments to:
• make music • awaken individual innate
creativity • free self-expression
• improve musicianship • focus and relax
the mind • engender self-confidence and community
• heal unwanted feelings and physical illness
• learn from sacred wisdom arts • spiritual
awakening
The approach is integral, cross-cultural, and systematic.
The highly experiential training and seminars offer
a precise integration of the Eastern and Western approach
to sound and singing as therapeutic arts.
As a result of the Vox Mundi educational programs,
hundreds of music therapists, teachers, students, health
care professionals and musicians have learned technical
and progressive ways to apply vocal arts in their work.
Expanding their repertoire of vocal styles students
experience focusing and mind training techniques as
they study related scientific sound and voice practices
and theories.
The programs are tailored to inspire professional musicians
and singers to spirit and empower their voices to heal
and bring happiness to those who need help and health
care.
The intention of the Vox Mundi School programs involves
teaching the magic of tone and the voice as an artistic
expression, an art that permeates the boundaries between
music &sound, healing & meditation, poetry &
theater.
An art not conditioned by cultures of music or outdated
classifications. A sound art that is integral, all-inclusive,
and multidimensional. An art that inspires and purifies
the mind and the body. A sound that connects with subtle
dimensions of energy and transforms consciousness by
welcoming meditation, ancient wisdom, and spiritual
insight.
All the programs and training seminars include voice
development, sound tools, and improvisation. By exploring
multi-ethnic vocal styles, the school programs offer
a creative way to listen and sing the voices and sounds
of world, aiming for a culturally free musical expression,
where all traditions are respected, carried on, and
integrated into one language, the music of the universe.
THE MISSION
Preserving Treasures
Vox Mundi keeps archives of analog and the digital recordings
with the aim to preserve sacred and unusual vocal arts
in extinction.
Preserving Lineages
Vox Mundi creates study programs abroad where students
from all parts of the world travel to meet and study
with guest master teachers who are direct holders of
lineages and sacred and indigenous traditions of music
and healing with sound. Some of those traditions are
still evolving, but many of them are presently in danger
of extinction. The project encourages research, reveals
and recovers repertoire, supports the lineage holders.
and promotes the ancestral power of the music of the
people
The Vox Mundi Recording Studios helps traditional musicians
and Vox Mundi students to produce and realize recording
projects, offering technical support, couching, and
production assistance.
Presently, the Vox Mundi Project offers programs &
has offices in:
Emeryville, California
Tempe, Arizona
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Barcelona, Spain.
VOX MUNDI Project includes:
Vox Mundi School of the Voice • training seminars
and academic programs
Vox Mundi Archives • research and preservation
of archives
Vox Mundi Sound and Voice Healing Sessions • therapeutic
assistance
Vox Mundi Recording Studios • recording and production
of music projects
Vox Mundi Study Abroad Programs • music retreats
and study groups
Singing the World Music Festivals • performance
events and conferences
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Vox Mundi Project
e-mail:snakkach@cs.com
& voxmund@yahoo.com
Phone/fax: 510-595 0819
Address: 4053 Harlan St, #202, Emeryville,
CA 94608, USA
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