field & onto

field & onto is excited to welcome Viviane for a week long summer residency with us August 15-22

Viviane Houle is a vocalist, improviser, psychotherapist, mark-maker and composer of graphic scores.  Her visual scores have been performed with improvising orchestras (NOW Orchestra and Ensemble SuperMusique), poets (The Offending Adam), and improvisers in Canada and Europe.  In 2023 she released a book/album of graphic scores, the third iteration of her Unsung Songs project.  She has performed in international festivals and collaborated within theatre, dance and animation.  She was featured as a soloist with Vancouver Opera, the Vancouver Symphony, NOW Orchestra, Ensemble SuperMusique (Montréal) and the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra.  Viviane teaches Vocal Improvisation and Performance Wellness Foundations at the Conservatory of Music in Victoria, BC.

“I am engaged in an ongoing investigation of how lines and shapes sound and how to sound lines and shapes.  I am also curious about community creation of graphic scores and the grounding and healing that can occur through the process of creation and interpretation of visual scores.”