Category — ICCA

Waiting in our Dressing Room, ICCA Quarterfinal (02/27/10)

St. Louis, MO – Fundamentally Sound competed at a Midwest Quarterfinal for the Varsity Vocals International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) at Washington University in St. Louis. The Stereotypes (Washington University) and Dicks & Janes (University of Michigan) advanced to the regional semifinals in Ann Arbor. Fundamentally Sound took a close 4th place, finishing just 12 points shy of 3rd place and 22 points shy of 2nd.

Every Competing Group, ICCA Quarterfinal (02/27/10)

Due to a traffic collision involving three of our cars and inclement weather, Fundamentally Sound will not be performing at tonight’s International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella quarterfinal in East Lansing. Our apologies to Varsity Vocals, Capital Green, and Michigan State’s a cappella fans for any inconvenience this causes. We’d like to thank our fans for their support through this.

We are safe and sound and back in Madison. We’re in high spirits and expect to be back in action again soon!

We have a long drive to East Lansing today for our big ICCA Quarterfinal, so we’ll be leaving Madison within the hour. Be sure to check out our Facebook page and Twitter for continuing updates throughout the day and check back here tomorrow for a full recap of the competition.

Running the set at Morphy Hall in the Humanities building

Madison, WI - To practice for our upcoming International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) Quarterfinal this Saturday at Michigan State, we ran our 12-minute set at various places around campus last night: the Great Hall in the Wisconsin Union, Morphy Hall in the Mosse Humanities Building, and the main lounge at Chadbourne Residential College.

Running the set at Morphy

The executive board does work before rehearsal

Madison, WI - The big news of the day is that we’ve officially submitted “Stratosphere” for review by the Recorded A Cappella Review Board. RARB accepts any a cappella album, has three of its select reviewers judge the album across many musical and artistic categories, and publishes those reviews on its website. A good set of reviews for an album can go a long way toward gaining national attention in the a cappella community, but we are mostly interested in hearing some constructive criticism about our first studio venture as we begin work on our sophomore album.

At rehearsal tonight, we worked exclusively on our set for our International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Quarterfinal next Saturday (January 30th) in East Lansing, MI.

Urbana, IL – On January 24th, 2009, Fundamentally Sound competed in a Quarterfinal for the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) hosted by The Xtension Chords of the University of Illinois.

Our set was:

• “Died in Ya Arms” featuring soloists Peter Goitom and Rob Fenton
• “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” featuring soloist Tyler Mitchell
• “High and Dry” featuring soloist Cameron Marston

All of these songs feature vocal percussion by David Porto and all three are available on our debut studio album, Stratosphere.

Be sure to follow along on our blog while we prepare for this year’s competition on Saturday, January 30th at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.

Discussing "Swingtown" at the end of rehearsal

Madison, WI – With our 1180 mile week-long statewide tour behind us, it’s time to get back to business as usual, which means rehearsal. With less than 2 weeks before our International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) Quarterfinal at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI, we don’t have any time to relax. We’ll be rehearsing extra long for the next two weeks and adding extra rehearsals to run choreography for our competition. Additionally, it’s back to school today, so it’s bedtime. Good night and good luck to all you Badgers out there!

FS at ICCA Quarterfinal - University of Illinois (Jan. 24, 2009)

We’re thrilled to be participating in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) for the fourth consecutive year. Our Quarterfinal will be hosted by our friends in Capital Green at Michigan State University:

Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 8:00 PM

Hannah Community Center
819 Abbot Road
East Lansing, MI

Last year, we competed at the University of Illinois. Watch our competition set on our YouTube channel below: