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SUMMARY:Un-Muting Sonic Restitutions: An Afternoon of Afrosonic Explorations and Improvisations with Satch Hoyt
DESCRIPTION:IICSI is thrilled to share an exciting and informative afternoon of conversation and an open improv jam session with internationally-acclaimed visual artist and musician\, Satch Hoyt! Curated by former IICSI postdoctoral research fellow jashen edwards and featuring IMPR students\, this event will offer a glimpse into the ways art and music can be a vehicle for social-political inquiry into injustices sustained by forced migration and xenophobic policies. Join us at ImprovLab from 3-5 PM on Saturday\, November 22nd for this free event! \nFor his Canadian tour\, Hoyt will discuss his project: Un-muting Sonic Restitutions\, in which he collaborates with national galleries and museums across the globe\, including the ROM\, unearthing their African musical instrument collections and breathing new life into the wood\, metal\, beads and cowries that have laid dormant for so long. Hoyt will also share thoughts on the making of his new album\, Un-Muting Beyond Misspelt Borders. \nAt ImprovLab\, Hoyt will be joined by a core septet consisting of Daniel Fischlin\, Matt Brubeck\, Reagan Mitchell\, David Lee\, Mike Hansen\, Hayden Mesnick\, and jashen edwards. \nHoyt is a Jamaican-British Berlin-based visual artist and musician. A believer in ritual and retention\, his diverse and multifaceted body of work – whether sculpture\, sound installation\, painting\, musical performance\, or musical recording – is united in its investigation of the “Eternal Afro-Sonic Signifier” and its movement across and amid the cultures\, peoples\, places\, and times of the African Diaspora. Hoyt is an intimate observer of the sites of convergence where the Diaspora comes together to sing\, shout\, and be\, reflecting itself to itself. Employing the shared tool kit to connect\, express\, and commiserate across centuries and oceans\, Hoyt taps into aural and oral echoes as well as into those retained in the historical and material record (Rujeko Hockley\, for the catalog Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp\, 2017). \nThis event is co-presented with the College of Arts Interdisciplinary Program and the Art Gallery of Guelph!
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/un-muting-sonic-restitutions-an-afternoon-of-afrosonic-explorations-and-improvisations-with-satch-hoyt/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Live @ImprovLab
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SUMMARY:IICSI 2025 Improviser-in-Residence Marilyn Crispell in Concert at the ImprovLab
DESCRIPTION:IICSI is thrilled to announce that a free night of performances by renowned pianist Marilyn Crispell will take place in ImprovLab on Saturday\, October 18th. \nThese performances will be the culmination of a week of workshops and collaborative sessions Crispell will lead as IICSI’s 2025 Improviser-in-Residence. \nIn her first performance of the evening\, at 7 PM\, Crispell will collaborate with Guelph’s new and as-yet-unnamed Creative Music Orchestra. Having gathered a few times in recent months to explore the compositions and ideas of some of its many members\, the orchestra is beyond excited to work with Marilyn Crispell. For this performance\, the orchestra members will be: \nConnor Bennett – saxophones\nMatt Brubeck – cello\nMatt Endahl – piano\, fender rhodes\nJonathan Kay – saxophones\, esraj\nKayla Milmine – soprano saxophone\nPatrick O’Reilly – guitar\nHeather Saumer – trombone\nJoe Sorbara – drums\, percussion\nTyler Wagler – bass\nClaire Whitehead – violin\nEm Wright – objects\nMark Zurawinski – drums\, percussion \nThe second set\, at 8 PM\, will see Crispell perform in a trio with Joe Sorbara and Jonathan Kay. Sorbara and Kay’s duo project\, The Rest\, invokes the emergence of compelling sound worlds that draw upon memory in different ways: intriguing and transformative sounds\, noises\, spaces\, places\, images\, and affects are made present in the moment alongside intentionally cultivated memories including the musics of Don Cherry\, Ornette Coleman\, Marilyn Crispell\, and Jimmy Lyons\, in addition to original pieces by Kay and Sorbara themselves. All of this means that Kay and Sorbara are as likely to be exploring a sound constellation tripped over in a moment of free improvisation as they are a pre-composed melody\, groove\, or playful rhythmic puzzle. \nAnyone wishing to see what Crispell is working on during her time in residency is free to listen in on her trio workshop session with Sorbara and Kay from 1-3 PM on Tuesday\, October 14th. Crispell will also give an open improvisation workshop for community members and students from 1-3 PM on Thursday\, October 16th. Please reach out to IICSI Project Manager Julia Busatto if you would like to participate! \nMarilyn Crispell has been a composer and performer of contemporary improvised music since 1978. For ten years\, she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble. She has performed and recorded extensively as a soloist and with players on the American and international jazz scenes. She has worked with dancers\, poets\, filmmakers\, and visual artists. She also teaches workshops in improvisation. She has been the recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship grants\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust composition commission\, and a 2025 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship award. \nInternationally celebrated for her skill as an improvising pianist\, Marilyn Crispell is not to be missed. In the words of The New York Times’ Jon Pareles\, “Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.”
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/iicsi-improviser-in-residence-marilyn-crispell-in-concert-at-the-improvlab/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Live @ImprovLab
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SUMMARY:Live @ImprovLab: Susanna Hood Trio and Sarah Belle Reid
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, April 17 at 7:30 PM (ET) for the series premier of Live @ImprovLab\, featuring the Susanna Hood Trio and Sarah Belle Reid in an inspiring double bill. This performance will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph.  \nTickets are $15 or PWYC and available online through IICSI’s Eventbrite page. While tickets will be made available at the door\, attendees are encouraged to reserve tickets ahead of time. \nThe double bill will be preceded by a panel discussion moderated by Marie Zimmerman in which the artists will contextualize the work they will be presenting\, and share insights about the role that improvisation plays in what they do. \nMORE ABOUT THE EVENT:\nIICSI’s new Live @ImprovLab concert and performance series serves to showcase touring artists working in a variety of improvisatory idioms. Curated by IICSI Director Dr. Ajay Heble (Founder and former Artistic Director of the Guelph Jazz Festival and 2023 Killam Prize winner)\, the new series\, says Heble\, “aims to celebrate live improvised performances and to spotlight our beautiful new venue.”  \nTiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal-based bandleader and vocalist-dancer\, Susanna Hood\, along with the superb Tkaronto/Toronto-based musicians\, Tania Gill (piano) and Kayla Milmine (soprano saxophone) bring poet Judith Malina and composer Steve Lacy’s 1995 “Packet” suite to life through sound and movement. These audacious new arrangements blur the lines between what is heard and what is seen. Heart-felt\, yet unsentimental\, these eight songs hold no punches as they bring voice to a woman’s later life\, grappling with imperfection\, sexism\, paradox\, grit\, beauty\, regret\, invisibility\, death\, and love. \nIn Sarah Belle Reid’s improvisations and compositions\, musical notation is often experimental and graphical—an invitation to explore a new sonic universe. This spirit for exploration has led her to collaborate with musicians and artists of all genres\, including experimental electronic musician David Rosenboom\, thereminist Carolina Eyck\, and baroque-pop artist Julia Holter. Reid recorded trumpet and electronics on Holter’s 2019 record Aviary\, and recently wrapped up an extensive tour throughout North America\, Europe\, and Australia as a member of her band. Reid’s own compositions have been premiered and performed by a number of renowned musicians\, most recently pianist Vicki Ray and trumpeter Nate Wooley. In 2017 her composition “Flux” for amplified percussion quartet won the Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Percussion Quartet’s Next Wave Composer Initiative. \nMORE ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:\nSusanna Hood has devoted her career to synthesizing voice and movement\, creating intimate\, sensual and dynamic performances both in dance-theatre and improvised music contexts. Founder of her interdisciplinary performance company hum dansoundart (2000-2013) her work has been marked by significant collaborations with musical artists Nilan Perera (She’s Gone Away\, Shudder)\, John Oswald (Spinvolver)\, and Scott Thomson (The Rent – Musique de Steve Lacy\, The Muted Note – songs and dances setting the poetry of P.K. Page).  \nRecent creations (Music Is\, 2016\, and Impossibly Happy\, 2019) have been driven by her own musical compositions arranging voices\, instruments and movement. Other collaborations of note include Tortues Vapeur\, a duo with Montreal turntablist\, Martin Tétreault\, mixing turntables\, electronics\, synthesizers\, vocals and objects. (DAME’s Mikroclimat label\, 2019); a duo with Belgian bassist\, Peter Jacquemyn; and performances with the French trio Rrève Sélavy (Frédéric BBriet\, double bass; Nicolas Pointard\, drums; and Christophe Rocher\, clarinettes). Unpacked\, the first project with her trio with Toronto/Tkaronto musicians Tania Gill (piano) and Kayla Milmine (soprano saxophone)\, is a new arrangement and interpretation of the Packet suite by late American poet\, Judith Malina and late American jazz composer\, Steve Lacy. unPacked will be released as a recording in early 2024 on Quebec’s DAME label. Awards include the 1998 K.M. Hunter Emerging Artists Award in Dance\, 2006 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance\, and the 2008 Canada Council Victor Martin Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Dance. For more information\, please follow this link to Susanna’s website. \nKayla Milmine loves the new and under-explored sonic possibilities that only the soprano saxophone can offer. Her unique approach has the edginess and brashness of Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell yet also a warmth and thoughtfulness reminiscent of Steve Lacy. In 2019\, Milmine released a solo album called ‘Straight Horn Magick; a mixture of field recordings and solo soprano saxophone improvisations. She plays regularly in trio form with pianist Bill Gilliam and percussionist Ambrose Pottie\, and in duo form with guitarist/composer Brian Abbott in their band FASTER. In February 2019\, she was invited to record with celebrated bassist\, William Parker in a chamber-improv sextet in NY\, where she often travels to study with mentor/collaborator\, Sam Newsome. She is presently composing for her new project\, the ‘Kayla Milmine Quartet’ with aforementioned Sam Newsome\, and drummers Mark Ferber and Rachel Housle. She is co-founder of the Women From Space Festival in Toronto. \nToronto-based pianist and composer Tania Gill has spent over twenty years cultivating a singular but polymorphous musical approach. She has developed a distinctive improvisational language in jazz and improvised music\, playing in ensembles such as the Brodie West Quintet\, Chris Banks Trio\, The Titillators\, See Through Trio and Rebecca Hennessy’s Makeshift Island. Her own group\, the Tania Gill Quartet\, comprises leading Canadian musicians Lina Allemano (trumpet)\, Rob Clutton (bass)\, and Nico Dann (drums). Their acclaimed disc Bolger Station (2010\, Barnyard Records)\, was nominated for best debut album in the Village Voice jazz critics’ poll and was included among the Globe and Mail’s top ten albums of the year. The follow-up\, Disappearing Curiosities\, launched in 2022 and was included on best-of-2022 lists in the Wire. Gill’s unconventional versatility keeps her engaged in an eclectic array of styles. She was a member of Deep Dark United and the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band\, and is a regular collaborator to vocalist Fides Krucker\, and singer-songwriter Kyp Harness. She has also shared the stage with Steve Reich\, Man Forever\, Gord Downie\, Mary Margaret O’Hara\, the Weather Station\, Margaret Atwood\, and Charles Spearin’s Happiness Project\, and she has performed with dancers including Peggy Baker\, Andrea Nann\, Heidi Strauss and Laurence Lemieux. Tania is a supportive and dedicated educator and currently teaches at Humber College and the University of Toronto. Fore more information\, please follow this link to Tania’s website. \nSarah Belle Reid is a performer-composer who plays trumpet\, modular synthesizer\, and an ever-growing collection of handcrafted electronic instruments. Her unique musical voice explores the intersections between contemporary classical music\, experimental and interactive electronics\, visual arts\, noise music\, and improvisation. Often praised for her ability to transport audience members through vivid sonic adventures\, Reid’s sonic palette has been described as ranging from “graceful” and “danceable” all the way to “silk-falling-through-space\,” and “pit-full-of-centipedes” (San Francisco Classical Voice). \nReid holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from California Institute of the Arts\, with a research focus on the development of new electronic instruments and musical notation systems as interfaces for exploring temporal perception and co-creation. Her debut album for trumpet and interactive electronics\, “Underneath and Sonder\,” was released on pfMENTUM in October\, 2019. In March 2024 she released a tape-music inspired electroacoustic record titled “MASS”\, featuring trumpet\, voice\, electronics\, and amplified objects\, on Aurora Central Records. \nIn addition to her performance and compositional work\, Reid runs an online music education company dedicated to teaching sound synthesis and electroacoustic composition to professional and hobbyist musicians. She has mentored thousands of musicians from around the world in her online programs\, and is a frequent guest lecturer at notable institutions in the US and Canada including Stanford University\, University of Victoria\, California Institute of the Arts\, New York University (NYU)\, among others. For more information\, please follow this link to Sarah’s website.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/live-improvlab-susanna-hood-trio-and-sarah-belle-reid/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Live @ImprovLab
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