“In this class you'll sing closely with one another, listen closely to one another, and feel what it’s like to improvise while you harmonize.  You won't be learning whole songs, nor will we be teaching parts individually to make harmony. We’ll do a series of games and exercises, sometimes using songs or song fragments, to explore pitch matching, tone matching, and percussive qualities of vocalizing.

'Ad Hoc Harmonies' touches on textures from Gregorian chant to doowop, and draws on the traditions, styles and techniques you’re learning in your other Vocal Week classes as well. Some of the harmonies will be simple, satisfying and utterly predictable…but some will strain the bounds of decency.