As if in a dream they learnt to listen and to speak to their ancestors, the spirits of life, of joy and of pain, and as they sang they began to dance on the bones of their past.

Over 2 decades Voices has worked to build a diverse and powerful repertoire sourced from research and interaction with a wide range of musical cultures. Members have studied choral music from South Africa, Bulgaria, Russia, Georgia, capoeira and samba from Brazil, drumming with African and Cuban musicians, and have shared skills in composition, arrangement, performance and vocal technique, conducting and musicology.

We have arranged and performed songs in as many as 20 different languages, always referring pronunciation, and cultural content back to community members here and overseas who speak those languages.

We borrowed the term "post-traditionalist" from a Latvian community choir. Traditional in the sense that our work owes much to the traditions of many of the nations inhabiting this country, but largely new in form due to confluence of diverse styles and traditions within the composers and members of this ensemble. The strength of our ensemble vocal work has been fed by this poly-vocal research and a move away from classical western vocal technique. This, coupled with the use of percussion and subtle instrumentation sets Voices apart from a large part of the currency of Australian vocal practice.

Our extensive experience in the arrangement and singing of non-western musical forms (in rhythms, structures and scales) has allowed Voices to enrich our own compositions with an edge of innovation that remains connected to strong and powerful cultural roots.