VOCAL WILDS
The Art of Embodied Improvisation
Our Mission
Our mission is to create spaces where singers return to the wild intelligence of their voices through vocal improvisation, embodied presence, and communal practice. We tend circles where listening, play, and collaboration become the foundation for co-creating spontaneous song—and where singing becomes a practice of liberation, belonging, and relational intelligence.
Our Vision
Our vision is a world where the singing voice is reclaimed as birthright and communal art. Vocal Wilds imagines a culture where improvisation invites us out of self-protection and into shared creative freedom—where ceremony and play coexist, and where collective song becomes a doorway back into wholeness and wonder, restoring a sense of shared humanity.
About Vocal Wilds
Our Artistic Roots
Vocal Wilds was co-founded in 2025 by TatiAnah Thunberg and Irene Soléa Antonellis as a collaborative home for artists devoted to vocal improvisation, community singing, and embodied creative practice.
Vocal Wilds emerged from a rich tapestry of practices, teachers, and collaborations that have shaped our understanding of the singing voice as a living, relational intelligence. Our work is nourished by wisdom traditions that invite us to listen deeply—to body, breath, instinct, one another, and the more-than-human world.
Collectively, we draw from the living field of vocal improvisation, shaped by the influence of Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, and their extended musical families. We are also nourished by the community singing movement; the devotional sound streams of Bhakti yoga and Kirtan; a cappella ensembles; jazz traditions; classical vocal training; Meredith Monk's experimental lineages; Music for People; and the spontaneous pulse of drum circles.
As movement practitioners, we draw from improvisational forms that return us to the wisdom of the body—ecstatic dance, authentic movement, and contact improvisation. As facilitators, our work is rooted in adventure-based experiential education and informed by the trauma-informed sciences of group development, somatic attachment, polyvagal theory, and nervous system regulation.
We honor the artists, mentors, guides, and companions who have shaped this path: the improvisers who showed us how song can rise from silence; the movement teachers who taught us to trust the body's intelligence; the communities that welcomed us into collective practice; and the natural landscapes that continue to teach us rhythm, resonance, and belonging.
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How do we begin? Our singing voice is a full body instrument. We arrive through the breath that supports all sound and allow the body to guide us into presence. Both are often tentative at first, then more bold, as trust sparks remembrance of ourselves, one another, and the music as playmates.
What happens next? We find each other. We lose each other. We find each other again. Improvisation calls us out of habit and into presence with what is unfolding right now. We make room for the timid, the wobbly, the bold, the brave, and the unexpected. It is surprisingly vulnerable and revealing to create in this way, but it is also profoundly liberating. We learn to lean into and explore, experiment, and discover possibilities that cannot be planned.
What does vocal improvisation music sound like? Every jam is completely unique and dynamic, shapeshifting moment to moment. The palette of sounds each artist contributes are influenced by all the music they have ever heard and sung. As we keep practicing, we begin to trust our musical instincts and one another, and over time we deepen our capacity for spontaneous musical collaboration.
The principles and practices of improvisation reach far beyond music making and are transferable to our daily lives: be present, soften fear, listen and join in, allow ourselves to be seen through loving eyes, trust our gifts, open our voices by opening our hearts, remember that practice thrives through play, stay connected through dissonance, dare to fail, recommit with curiosity, make room for every voice, honor silence, pause, embody the rhythm, and let ourselves shine.
Come practice with us in the Vocal Wilds, and discover creativity where certainty ends!
