Voice, Form and Content

Semester: A Credits: 1.5 Elective course for Third and Fourth years
Semester: A
Credits: 1.5
Elective course for Third and Fourth years

Michal Oppenheim Landau

Michal Oppenheim Landau is a composer, vocal artist, and performance creator. In her work, she deals with questions such as where does the voice come from culturally, performatively, and spiritually, and what are the implications of the voice on the creative process. Michal combines experimental approaches with practices that use music as a tool for altering consciousness. Her works have received acclaim and were presented at the Israel Festival, Mekudeshet Festival, Diver Festival, as well as in museums and art centers such as the Tel Aviv Museum, Petach Tikva Museum, The Center for Digital Art, and the Kalisher Center for Contemporary Art. Besides her work as a creator, Oppenheim teaches actors, dancers, singers, and artists. She has taught at the Tel Aviv University Theater Department, the Midrasha for Arts in Beit Berl, the Choreography Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and the Kelim Choreography Center in Bat Yam. She also served as the head of the music track for Art Team (formerly MATAN) - an excellence program for youth in the arts.

This course will focus on vocal research as a performative tool for personal creation, emphasizing the relationships between voice, time, and space. The vocal research work will aim to go deeper and expose the many facets of the vocal medium. Among other aspects, the course will explore the voice as a musical instrument, a tool for tuning the consciousness, a sculptural material in space, and as a performer of content, narrative, and their relations.