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AUMI McGill
The Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) project is profiled in the following French-language video on their partnered project with the Mackay Centre School, a Montreal-based school for children with motor, speech,…
Canadian Musicians On Tour
To celebrate the release of his new CD “Ghosts,” Ottawa trumpeter Craig Pedersen toured Montreal, Kitchener, Peterborough, Toronto, Guelph and Hamilton in April with his quartet of Linsey Wellman, alto…
ImprovNotes May 2015 Artist of the Month: Judith Malina (1926 – 2015)
This spring, the director and actor Judith Malina passed away at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey, at the age of 88. When they founded The Living Theatre…
Anthony Braxton in Alabama
From Tuscaloosa, Andrew Raffo reports that composer/saxaphonist/philosopher Anthony Braxton was artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama in February. The residency included “Falling River Music,” a showing of Braxton’s graphic music…
ImprovNotes April 2015 Artist of the Month: Margaret Dragu
Born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1953, Margaret Dragu began her dance career studying under Dada-influenced Yone Kvietys Young of Calgary, and Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis in New York City.…
People: Paul Watkins
IICSI is pleased to congratulate Paul Watkins who has accepted a position at Vancouver Island University. Beginning August 1st, 2015, Paul will join the Vancouver Island University English Department as…
AUMI Consortium News
The AUMI Consortium is an international research group dedicated to exploring, sustaining, developing, and sharing the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, a free software download interface that uses camera tracking to…
Video Play: An Improvised Film Series
Video Play: An Improvised Film Series Video Play: An Improvised Film Series brings together filmmakers from the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and Ed Video’s Play Proposition II for…
Free City Radio
Art and community activism is the focus of Free City Radio, from McGill University’s campus radio station, CKUT. Free City Radio’s website includes interviews with a range of Montreal’s music…
ImprovNotes March 2015 Artist of the Month: Pablo Vazquez
As we usually hear little or nothing about improvised music from South America, this issue’s Artist of the Month is Pablo Vazquez, double bass and electric bass player, composer and…
