Wildness &
Precision®
“What others do with effort, I do with resonance.”
WORKSHOP
EXQUISITE RESONANCE
Saturday, April 12, 2025
2-5pm Pacific / 5-8pm Eastern
*For singers, speakers, instrumentalists, and performers of all disciplines
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
From the most thundering reverberation to the most gossamer pianissimi, resonance is the essence of sound.
When we learn how to call up instantaneous, omni-dimensional resonance, we shake each other’s bones and light up each other’s cells.
And…
We make exquisite singing and movement almost effortless.
No fatigue. No pushing. No pitchiness.
Just full-spectrum resonance.
In this workshop, we will explore the nature of vibration, amplitude, and tuning.
You will learn how the design of your instrument (vocal or otherwise) is conducive to optimal resonance by its nature. You will learn how to intentionally and reliably cultivate full-spectrum resonance. You will learn about the pitfalls and limitations of over-brightening or over-darkening, and how to adjust resonance qualities as desired, without contrivance.
This workshop is designed to help you make every sound fully potentiated, fully rung, fully present, and fully felt.
(I will also teach you how to sound like you never breathe, even though you will be able to breathe anytime you want.)
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
Part 1: Structure, Function & Concepts
- Optimal Acoustics & Resonance
- How the human body is perfectly designed for Optimal Acoustics: What makes Resonance Optimal, How Our Bodies Amplify and Tune Sound
- How Sound Reverberates and Travels
- Resonance as an Emergent Property
- How Tuning Works from a Neurobiological and Acoustical Standpoint
- The Singer’s Formant: How and Why it Works
- Exercises to establish optimal coordination and access optimal resonance
Part 2: Styles & Applications
- Resonance in Music, “Playing” Acoustical Spaces
- Vowel Tuning, Guiding Resonance, Vocal “Colors” and Using Emergence to Guide the Vocal Tract
- Experiments & Techniques to Establish Emergent Resonance and Omni-Presence
- Revisioning Chiaroscuro
- Integration: Simple, Comprehensive Rehearsal and Performance Plans Encompassing Key Learning from the Workshop
Part 3: Coaching
- Specific Coaching for Participants to Work Precisely with Repertoire & Application
- Open Q&A
“The Resonance Workshop was much more than I was expecting. I was presented with a method of grounding and releasing one’s fullest sound without getting in its way, and then also wonderful imagery with tiny movements to shape formants into musical phrases.”
– Andrea Young
Vocalist, Performer, Composer
Lecturer in the Composition Faculty at the University of Auckland / Waipapa Taumata Rau; former Faculty in Electroacoustic Studies, Concordia University, Montreal QC
ABOUT KATE
Kate Conklin is 6 feet 3 inches of pure, unadulterated resonance.
Kate is a soprano, a leading interpreter of the highly demanding vocal music of Bulgaria, and an extraordinary performance coach. Kate is a certified Integrative Alexander Technique teacher, holds two degrees in Vocal Performance, and was a Fulbright Scholar to Bulgaria, where she studied singing, pedagogy, and conducting, and performed as a member of The Ivan Spassov Academic Choir. Kate was also the vocalist for Cirque du Soleil’s “O,” where she performed approximately nine hundred shows, and subsequently brought on to teach at the California Institute of the Arts where she served as vocal faculty, as well as founding and directing the Bulgarian Vocal Ensembles.
Kate’s unique methodology, Wildness & Precision®, is the process that has emerged from decades of coaching the best performers in the world, and deep study in the fields of optimal performance, optimal acoustics, flow state, stress physiology, neurobiology, systems theory, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization, anthropology, philosophy, and creativity.
Kate coaches acrobats, artists, opera singers, athletes, entrepreneurs, directors, and performers of all kinds to create the conditions for consistent optimal performance, skilled mastery, and unprecedented performance techniques so they can get the support, recognition, and fulfillment they desire and deserve.
Kate sings in seventeen + languages and is known for her playful gravitas.