A weekly prompt for singers to improvise and connect.

How it works: 

-Every Thursday morning we will post a weekly prompt to get you started. 
-Upload your response by midnight the following Monday. 
-Then, as you can, listen to how other singers have responded to the prompt, and leave them a nice comment or two.

We're here to build a culture that encourages people to sing, to improvise, and to grow. We hope you'll join us! 

You can learn more at http://singthis.org.


This an outlet and catalogue of my creative development, and the musical moments that build it brick by brick.
Loops, circlesongs, Improv, demos... 
It's not professional production, and its mostly unedited. 
hope you find some moments to enjoy :)

My SoundCloud channel is a hodgepodge of professional musical tracks excerpted from released recordings along with tracks that are improvisational, sometimes a cappella and self-recorded in the spirit of experimental and spontaneous impulse.
BIO
Caren Messing
is a native New Yorker and went to The High School of Performing Arts (Theater) and college at SUNY at Purchase. Upon graduating and working with Mabou Mines Theater company for a season she met and performed, as an actor, with Stuart Sherman (performance artist, playwright, filmmaker & videographer) in many theatrical "spectacles". A highlight was being featured in the 1989 season of the "SeriousFun! Festival" and performing in Alice Tully Hall/ Lincoln Center. 
She worked, as an actor, with Obie Award winning director/writer Bob Berger in his serial-theater play "Manifestations: War is Cold" at the Collective:Unconscious (145 Ludlow Street NYC) which had an underground, cult-following. She performed in the rock-opera "Kidnap Girl" (Tribeca Lab Theater) enjoying an extended run in the first NY International Fringe Festival. She worked with  Grammy Award Winner Ian Finkel, the world's greatest xylophone virtuoso, in his ever-evolving musical oddity "Ian Talks, Louie Walks" directed by Lewis J. Stadlen (two time Tony Award Nominee).
As a writer,  her essay “A Modicum of Comfort” appeared in the anthology “America, September 11th The Courage to Give” (MJF  Books/Fine Communications, Conari Press 2001) One of her short stories "In The Studio" is included in the third of the special issues of Asylum Magazine on Comics and Mental Health (Autumn 2015)
Her short story “Cornerstone” was published in the New Plains Review (Fall 2020) 
She has contributed original  photography for various issues of the international literary journal Beyond Words Magazine.
As a singer, she has done vocals with singer/songwriter Ken Lockwood and the band Red Road (folk/pop) along with the musical artist/violinist Nancy Jephcote.
From 1999 - 2014, Caren was a vocalist in the legendary Brooklyn based CBGB band "The Shirts". She sang both lead and background vocals on two of their most recent CDs "Only The Dead Know Brooklyn" (2006) produced by Mike Thorne. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/shirts  and "The Tiger Must Jump" (2010) http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/shirts3
Most recently, Caren sang and toured  with legendary singer Genya Ravan in The Genya Ravan Band and appears as a guest artist on her latest CD “Icon” (http://www.genyaravan.com)
Caren has contributed vocals to M. West’s “Radical Cheek” and “Still Life’s Allusions” recordings. 
She enjoys creating and editing self-made musical and non-musical videos for amusement and entertainment on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/carenmessify
Her short musical film  “Swimming Upstream” (2019) with lyrics and music by M. West, was created and edited entirely on her mobile phone (iphone 7 plus).   “Swimming Upstream” received numerous accolades,  official selections and national and international screenings in the independent film festival circuit.

Breathe, be kind, make a difference through your creations.

Vocalist, composer, and improviser on a mission to use music to bring joy, hope, and mirth to people's lives, as well as relief from sorrow and despair.

Use whatever you've got to do the same.

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