margomool has been working as a community musician and researcher across UK the for eight years, exploring how music can be used as a tool for generating body autonomy and belonging. They have specialised in co-producing work with disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent communities, as well as queer and trans+ folks. Their community music work is centred around how we can use the voice as a regulatory life-affirming tool.
Embodied Voice Podcast
As part of QUEERCIRCLE’S Queer Creative Health research, margomool co-produced the Embodied Voice podcast series. This 3-part audio tapestry pieces together the vocal journeys of queer and trans+ professional and non-professional voice users over the course of 6-months. It asks how can singing help to generate body-autonomy and resilience within queer and trans+ people, offering exercises, and perspectives from a social science and lived experience lens along the way.
Trans Chorus
margomool founded Trans Chorus in 2023 - a somatic vocal exploration space for trans+ and gender non-conforming people. Trans Chorus hosted monthly workshops at QUEERCIRCLE, and performed at the Museum of Transology’s historic Transcestry exhibition. They’re currently doing a year-long residency at Staffordshire St called GENERATIVE which is exploring how vocal somatics can help trans+ disabled and neurodivergent people to thrive.
Queering The Voice
margomool produced the Queering The Voice course, a free series of practical workshops facilitated by queer vocal practitioners, offering embodied tools to nurture connection to the voice outside of cisheteronormativity. The course was part of QUEERCIRCLE’s Queer Creative Health strand, which supports intiatives that mitigate health inequalities through alternative arts-based methodes.
All Stars Rock
Over the course of three years, margomool worked with 12 learning disabled folks from Brent Mencap to create an original album. The music was co-written through a shared process of uplifting each other’s voices, resulting in a diverse record that explores friendship, self-love and defiance from a disabled lens.
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