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Call for Artists: Boarding House Arts Incubator 2015-2016 Call for Submissions (due Oct 31)

Boarding House Arts Incubator is an eighteen-month studio residency and mentoring program designed to help Guelph area artists advance their professional careers. Artists are selected through a competitive process in…

The Muted Note: Scott Thomson and Susanna Hood

This autumn, former ICASP improvisers-in-residence Scott Thomson and Susanna Hood will perform their new suite The Muted Note a total of 40 times in nine provinces across Canada. Critic Stuart Broomer…

Think Pieces Improvisation and Interspecies Performance (Kimber Sider)

Think pieces is a special project curated by PhD student Mark Kaethler (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph). In this piece, Kimber Sider develops a unique theory…

ImprovNotes September 2014 Artist of the Month: FLYING LOTUS

Last month featured one of the great architects of Afrofuturism: the one and only Sun Ra and his Arkestra. From Sun Ra to Janelle Monáe, Afrofuturism lets us know where…

Oral Histories Project: Amiri Baraka and William Parker

Oral Histories is a showcase of interviews, performances, and articles by and about improvising musicians, artists, writers and scholars. “People Get Ready”/ The Future of Jazz: Amiri Baraka and William Parker…

Guelph Jazz Festival Continues to Inspire, Engage, and Incite Dialogue

​ Reviews for the 2014 Guelph Jazz Festival are coming in, and as usual, the Festival is celebrated for its daring and unique sounds, community engagement, and inclusivity. Ottawa Jazz…

Think Pieces “Tunes from Brainville: Improvised Jazz and/as Utopia”

In this piece, Greg Shupak examines the correlations between political visions of utopia and the space Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble refer to as the other side of nowhere, a…

ImprovNotes August 2014 Artist of the Month: Sun Ra Arkestra

Sun Ra, who thought of himself as much as a scientist as a musician, used space, music, and improvisation as ways to escape the material world and, to contemplate cosmic…

Summer Institute Fosters Improvisational Encounter and Social Virtuosity

The 2014 Summer Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation was held June 29 to July 12 at Memorial University’s School of Music. The institute was integrated with The Sound Symposium, St.…

Oral Histories Project: Dong-Won Kim

Dong-Won Kim is a Korean percussionist, pedagogue, vocalist, composer, and improviser. Since 1984, he has studied various forms of traditional music, ranging from farmers’ drumming and dance, shaman music, and…