The living instrument
A deep dive into Vocal Process Art (VPA) and
Collaborative Vocal Improvisation (CVI)
held over three separate weeks
in Långrådna - Sweden.
Course Leaders : Kajsa Norrby (SE), Tom Keegan (UK)
This course is for you who want to grow as an artist through vocal improvisation and process art. Dive deep into your artistry and refine your musicality. Explore and enjoy the incredible instrument that is your body and soul. Find your gift and share it with the world.
DATES:
Week 1 6-11 Octobre 2026
Week 2 16-21 February 2027
Week 3 4-9 May 2027
Maximum 12 participants
“Deep therapeutic playful music making, from within and out.”
WHO IS THIS FOR:
This course is for you who want to deepen your artistic skills as a vocal improviser. You who want to have more singing in your life, refine your musicality and immerse yourself in creativity.
It is a practitioner training within Vocal Process Art and Improvisation for artists from different fields and backgrounds. For you who really want to go into the deep work, study music in an embodied way and fully learn your instrument all the way in. For you who want to take your place in this world as an artist.
We welcome song leaders, singers, music teachers, performance artists from different fields, we welcome dreamers who want to create and are ready to grow, to take their place and share their passion with the world.
“A lot of fun with laughter and song.
I would recommend it to anyone wishing to pursue singing/groupwork or generally build confidence and artistry. ”
COURSE STRUCTURE AND GOALS:
The training is created as a journey across three weeks. A journey that you will embark on as an individual, together with an ensemble of fellow artists. The weeks build upon each other, starting from within – finding your inner voice. We gently expand to finally invite the world into our deepest gifts as artists.
Week one: Find your sound, your musicality, your ground.
Individual sessions, singing technique, body work, rhythm, recontextualising the role of solo in creation with others, support through music and sharing, widen perspective of what vocal improv is, tuning, lyrics, storytelling through singing, explore yourself.
Week two: Find your playfulness and clarity in harmony and connection.
Your voice in relation to others, to nature, to the world around you, harmony both within and in relation to other voices, widen creative range, curious exploration with knowledge and intention, time to develop your music skills with an anarchistic deep curiosity, focus on collaboration and clarity in singing, learn to understand you impulses, practice your vision and leadership.
Week three: Find your joy, originality, strength and space.
Release, invite the world to your inner world - share your gift with the world, refine, create what you need to bloom, celebrate your artistry, create and take your space, shine your light in your way, go out on the stage, lead yourself and ask for what you need.
We aim for the group to become a collaborative, creative ensemble of individuals. Our intentions are to create an environment for you to grow and bloom as the vocal artist you are. We hope that you feel both held and challenged.
Between the weeks you will have homework and practice to work on and we will regularly meet online in the group to check in.
At the end of the three weeks, we will have a performance and meet an audience. This gives us a North Star and focus to our journey, as well as putting everything into practice as a tool i the process and art.
“To hold space and support others whilst also stepping into my own shine and purpose. Learning when to listen, when to invent and when to follow and build.”
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE:
You don't need to read music or have traditional music experience but you need to have some sort of musical ground, be able to keep a beat and sing in tune. Connect to us if you are unsure about this! There is so much in our nervous system that can get in the way for our free musical expressions. We can help you explore if this is the right next step for you!
This is not a formal, traditional music study, we won’t be handing out grades or certificates! But we do aim to “do the work” as a group, and for all participants to approach the course fully and with commitment.
An opportunity to better learn and discover
the incredible instrument that is your body and soul.
All within Vocal Process Art and
Collaborative Vocal Improvisation.
COURSE FEE
Early bird and Bursary place
Book the whole course before 6 August 2026
25 400 SEK for all three weeks. (including moms/VAT)
8800 SEK / payment if paid as installments (including moms/VAT)
Later bird
After 6 August
28 500 SEK for all three weeks. (including moms/VAT)
9500 SEK /payment if paid as installments (including moms/VAT)
Maximum 12 participants
In your registration of interest for the course, we ask you to tell us about yourself and you previous music experiences. We also ask you to send two recordings, please use the phone and just record, no polished recordings, just here and now. One where you improvise for 1 minute and one where you sing a song you know. All unaccompanied. We aim to create a group where you feel you have the chance to grow and develop, refill and replenish yourself. Do not hesitate, send it in!
BED & FOOD
Without extra cost you are more than welcome to stay on the farm during the course. Kajsa opens up her beautiful 19th century farmhouse to hold these courses in, and in many ways the characterful farm building is a participant in the course! A bed in a single or shared room in the main building or guest house, and simple, seasonal yet delicious home cooked food is offered as a gift during your stay. Wednesday-Sunday, breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided. Snacks are everyone's individual responsibility. Everyone helps out in the kitchen on a rotating schedule and we clean the house together when needed. We share toilet and shower in the house.
We find that participants have a better experience when they can stay on site with their musical tribe! So we do our best to make it possible. We cook as much as we can with ingredients grown on our own self-sufficient farm and all hangs on the harvest! This is primarily a home.
You are welcome!
If you would prefer to bring your own food for the week, or arrange your own accommodation somewhere locally, please let us know. There are no restaurants or shops nearby, so food would need to be purchased elsewhere. There are both hostels and Airbnbs available in the area.
“I was challenged and inspired by all the amazing, different, beautiful and complex voices that I’ve been able to sing alongside and learn from.”
The work is built on Kajsa Norrbys 20 years of experiences as a vocal artist and facilitator. She is know for her beautiful way to hold groups in process, her anarchistic musical knowledge and rich voice, precise playfulness and professional vulnerability. This is where it all comes together as a whole. As a co-leader and great facilitation partner she has Tom Keegan by her side. They met 2024 at a vocal improv deep dive.
“Go there, it’s amazing.
But be prepered to meet yourself.”
“Ground-breaking work. Boundary-pushing and personally developing.”
The modern world does not allow for many spaces where people are invited to play, and share their voices in all their wildness, and all their vulnerability. But there are deep, joyful connections to be found from swimming in these waters. Working with music within a group of peers, and growing together as a collective instrument is a powerful journey. It can open paths to self-discovery, growth in self-confidence, and your ability to connect with others.
We are proud and excited to be able to offer this work to the world. If this sounds like something that would appeal to you, we really invite you to take the leap and challenge yourself. We hope to be singing with you soon!
Playfulness is one of the most serious things there is.
“This course is for all who want to live in a full and authentic way
and being held in it.”
The course takes place at Långrådna Kultur, in the old farm house from 1868. Långrådna Kultur is the home of Kajsa Norrby and lays in a beautiful landscape at the east coast of Sweden, 2,5h south of Stockholm by car.
“Kajsa and Tom are such Human, natural teachers.”
Kajsa Norrby
"I am a Vocal Process Artist, course leader, singer and songwriter. My roots are in folk singing, classical singing and theatre. I have been inspired by and collaborated with famous teachers in singing, voice, theatre and improvisation in different countries for the last 20 years, including Frankie Armstrong (UK), Anders Nyberg (SE), Kefas Berlin (SE) & Teater Morgana (DK) Jodi Gilbert (NL) Briony Greenhill (UK)
Energy, humor, thoughtfulness, presence, & courage to create great music in simplicity with our living body instruments together are what I am passionate about in my work. Letting ourselves be touched and having fun! I work with voice singing & improvisation a capella, with the body as an instruments. I am active in the international choir leader network Natural Voice and regularly tour with my workshops in Europe and Sweden. I run the singing centre Långrådna Kultur on my farm where I annually lead Women's Voice Camp and courses in Vocal process art and vocal improvisation together with Claire Stronach (UK) and Tom Keegan (UK) among others.
VOCAL PROCESS ART is an art form and an artistic tool that I have developed and use both as an artist and leader in vocal process work. The process and what we create in the present is in focus, not the performance in front of a passive audience and I work with groups and individuals in depth to create art from the inside out.
Tom Keegan
"I'm a filmmaker, musician, and woodworker. I grew up in London, where I was lucky enough have a community Arts centre a short walk from my house. There, I performed on stage for the first time, attended regular performance workshops, and took part in many of the community theatre productions between the ages of of 8 to 18. After studying Photography and Media, I went on to work in video production, writing, filming, and directing streaming content, commercials, and TV shows. Alongside my media career, I continued to perform on stage with the Bristol Improv Theatre, performing in various improv troupes, as well as learning improvisational singing with Imo Palmer (UK) for an improv musical show that we later took to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. More recently, I've been learning the arts of fooling with Holly Stoppit (UK), and CVI with Briony Greenhill (UK). I've come away from these recent explorations with a renewed passion for the creative processes, and huge respect for what forms like Collaborative Vocal Improvisation can do to foster connection, creativity, and joy.
“The collaboration,
the music that arises and lives in and through us.”
FAQ
SCHEDULE :
Each week will run from Tuesday evening to Sunday afternoon.
We will begin fully on Wednesday morning, but hope for you to arrive Tuesday to get a more relaxed arrival and be part of the start up!
The week ends on the Sunday after lunch. A detailed schedule will be provided to participants closer to the course.
PAYMENT:
The fee for the course will be invoiced to the mail you gave us in the booking.
You will be contacted before you get an invoice so everything about your booking is registered. Kajsa will contact you.
REFUND IN CASE OF CANCELLATION:
Once the course is booked the purchase is binding. The course fee is invoiced via email. (Check your junk mail!)
SEK 1200 is the booking fee and this is non-refundable. However,
- If you cancel 40 days before the start of the course, the course fee will be fully refunded, minus the booking fee.
- If you cancel less than 40 days before the start of the course, half the course fee will be refunded, minus the booking fee.
- Cancellation less than 20 days before - no refund.
- In the event of illness, you will be directed to other course weeks, if you are not able to take part in upcoming weeks the course fee will be refunded, minus the booking fee. (medical certificate required)
- If the course is cancelled, we will direct you to another date for the course, if this is not possible to find the full amount will, of course, be refunded.
Welcome to Långrådna!
Kajsa & Tom
“The process – WOW! The individual and the group process”
“Creating music that makes it possible to fly with my voice in harmony with others”