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.
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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.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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When we sing improvisationally, the living moment is where truth reveals itself.
Improvisation calls us out of habit and into presence—into the body, into breath, into connection with what is actually happening right now. When we sing without scripts or expectations, we meet ourselves more honestly. We hear the subtle shifts of the nervous system, the quiet impulses of the heart, the musical instincts that are hidden beneath inhibition.
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Improvisational singing invites us to risk, to open, to trust.
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This practice asks us to listen deeply—to ourselves, to one another, and to the space between us. In this listening, we discover anew that music is interdependent. It arises relationally. It emerges from attunement, curiosity, and the courage to follow our collective musical instincts.
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This practice frees the voice.
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We make space for the timid, the wobbly, the bold, the brave, the unexpected. We allow the voice to roam, to wander, to remember itself as something wild and wise. Vocal improvisation is a practice of liberation—a way of breaking out of old patterns and stepping into creative possibility.
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The foundation of this practice is community.
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When people dare to sound together without a map, something ancient wakes up. Trust deepens. Belonging becomes embodied play.
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Improvisation is a way home—back to voice, back to presence, back to the wild intelligence that lives inside us all. Back into the Vocal Wilds.
