The Improvisers’ Choir (TIC)

The Improvisers’ Choir (TIC) is a group set up and conducted by composer Jenni Roditi. Singers take musical direction from Jenni and participate in creating music established through the conducting, based on a simple signalling system and intuition. Singers in TIC bring their own specialisms and are also open to learning from others and willing to let go of their tradition to try something new. Together, we create exploratory spontaneous choral compositions holding a vision to make vocal music that is a refreshing balance of original, consistent, exploratory and accessible.

TIC won the Nonclassical Battle of the Bands 2018. We have played two gigs at the Vortex Jazz Club, appeared in Chorus Festival, South Bank Centre, also Crouch End Festival, The SkronkFest, supported heavy-metal band Black Shape at New River Studios, appeared in a family Christmas concert 2016 in a local church, with a TV studio audience in Istanbul (December 2016) where the whole concert was filmed in TV conditions, and sang twice for Wintertime Choirs at South Bank Centre December 2017. In 2018 we received funding from PRSF to record an album using no headphones and in real time with no overdubs using only one stereo microphone to keep the communication between the performers as live as possible. From these two half days of recording the project Land Mass was born. This is now (in 2022) just under an hour of music with enhancing film footage by Sara Pozin. In July 2022 Land Mass was selected by Lift-Off Film Festival, Los Angeles, for an autumn screening at the historic Raleigh Studios, in the heart of Hollywood."