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SUMMARY:(Cancelled) ImprovLab Open House Sessions\, May 2
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a schedule of Thursday afternoon (1–3 pm ET) ImprovLab Open House Sessions! The sessions will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. Bring any instrument and be ready to improvise! \n\nThe full schedule is as follows: \nFebruary 8th (Electronic Music Session); immediately following Thinking Spaces: Colin Harrington \nFebruary 29th \nMarch 7th \nMarch 21st \nApril 4th \nApril 18th \nMay 2nd \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/improvlab-open-house-sessions-may-2/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,ImprovLab Open House Sessions
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SUMMARY:Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros - Film Screening - ArtsEverywhere Festival
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, May 5th\, from 4–7 pm (ET) for a screening of  “Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros.” The screening will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. The event is part of the ArtsEverywhere Festival. \nA post-screening conversation with director Daniel Weintraub (remote)\, executive producer IONE (remote) and collaborator Anne Bourne will be moderated by Ajay Heble. \nMore Information about the Event\nDaniel Weintraub’s new feature-length film\, “Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros“\, is a documentary that traces the life and work of visionary composer\, musician\, teacher\, technological innovator\, and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016). \nPauline was one of the world’s original electronic musicians\, the only woman amongst notable post-war American composers\, a master accordion player\, a teacher and mentor to musicians\, a gateway to music and sound for non-musicians\, and a technical innovator who helped develop everything from tools that allow musicians to play together while in different countries\, to software that enables those with severe disabilities to create beautiful music. \nProduced in collaboration with executive producer IONE\, Oliveros’ partner in life and work\, and the Ministry of Maåt\, Inc.\, the film combines rare archival footage\, live performances\, and unreleased music with appearances by Terry Riley\, Anna Halprin\, Ione\, Linda Montano\, Laurie Anderson\, Thurston Moore\, Alvin Lucier\, Claire Chase\, Miya Masaoka\, Morton Subotnick\, Tony Martin\, Ramon Sender\, and many more ground-breaking artists. \nPlease find a preview on the festival event webpage. \nImprovLab is a physically accessible venue. The Q&A portion of this event will feature live transcription and ASL interpretation. For details on the festival’s accessibility\, please visit our general accessibility page.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/deep-listening-the-story-of-pauline-oliveros-film-screening-artseverywhere-festival/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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SUMMARY:Live Music: Anne Bourne/Joe Sorbara/Ajay Heble Trio - ArtsEverywhere Festival
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, May 5th\, from 8–9 pm (ET) for a live music performance by the Anne Bourne/Joe Sorbara/Ajay Heble Trio. The performance will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. The event acts the finale of the ArtsEverywhere Festival. \nRefreshments will be served before the performance. \nMore About the Event\nFor this special closing night concert at the ArtsEverywhere Festival\, these three friends will come together to perform for the first time in a trio setting. Their music will be freely improvised and animated by deep and attentive listening\, joyful creative interaction\, meditative soundscapes\, and possible nods to various influences and traditions ranging from Pauline Oliveros to Indian ragas to free jazz and beyond. \nImprovLab is a physically accessible venue. For details on the festival’s accessibility\, please visit our general accessibility page.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/live-music-anne-bourne-joe-sorbara-ajay-heble-trio-artseverywhere-festival/
LOCATION:QC
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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SUMMARY:"Has it started...?" by Rebecca Barnstaple - Artist Residency at ImprovLab
DESCRIPTION:Please join us\, starting Monday\, May 27\, at 10:00 AM(ET) for “Has it Started…?” with IICSI Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Barnstaple. There will be a schedule of events each day until May 30th.  “Has it started…?” is a 4 day open-door artist residency and practice-based inquiry at the ImprovLab\, University of Guelph.  \nOn May 31\, at 11:00 AM (ET)\, Dr. Barnstaple has scheduled an Open Class\, preceded by a lecture/webinar on adapted dance (Danse adaptee pour le bien-etre). Register here for the Open Class! \nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. The event is free and open to all. \n\nMore About the Residency\n\n\nAdapted dance is a deeply improvisational practice\, created in relation with people of diverse mobilities and ages. Community members and visitors are invited to join Rebecca Barnstaple for a drop-in class at 11am on May 31st as a Friday kick-off for the Guelph Dance Festival. Rebecca has worked extensively with partners in dance/movement therapy\, IMPROVment\, dance for Parkinsons\, and dance for health internationally. Inspired by this broad scope of practice\, we will explore the possibilities present for the bodies in attendance.  All are welcome!  \nThe Open Class will be preceded by a LIVE broadcast of Danse adaptee pour le bien-etre\, a webinar exploring programs and research associated with adapted dance offered in partnership with the National Centre for Dance Therapy and Chigamik Community Health Centre. \n\nMore About the Presenter\nRebecca Barnstaple (PhD Dance Studies; Graduate Program in Neuroscience 2020\, York University) is the Manager of Community Initiatives\, Research and Innovation at Centre Communautaire Chigamik Community Health Centre\, Midland\, Ontario\, and an IICSI Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Guelph. A graduate of the National Centre for Dance Therapy at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (2015)\, she provides education and training in dance therapy and associated research globally. She has been involved in the development and delivery of improvisational arts and health initiatives in the United States (IMPROVment\, Wake Forest University) and Canada (SingWell\, Toronto Metropolitan University; Piece of Mind\, McGill; Dance for Health\, Nova Scotia) and serves in a leadership capacity for professional organizations including the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Canada (Accreditation and Certification Committee)\, the American Dance Therapy Association (Research and Practice Committee)\, and the International Association of Dance Medicine Science (International Benchmarking Standards Task Force\, Dance for Health Committee). Rebecca directs the Research to Practice Lab for ZOE School of Dance Movement Therapy in Basel\, Switzerland. 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/has-it-started-by-rebecca-barnstaple-artist-residency-at-improvlab/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:CFP - The 2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium\, "Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes"
DESCRIPTION:The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI)\, in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival and the University of Guelph\, invites proposals for presentations at our annual interdisciplinary international conference. The colloquium will take place September 11-13\, 2024\, as part of the 31st annual Guelph Jazz Festival. Featuring panel discussions\, debates\, performances\, workshops\, keynote presentations\, and critical conversations among researchers\, artists\, and audiences\, the colloquium fosters a spirit of collaborative\, boundary-defying inquiry and dialogue\, and an international exchange of cultural forms and knowledges. \nIn his liner notes for John Coltrane’s 1958 recording Soultrane\, jazz critic Ira Gitler famously coined the phrase “sheets of sound” to describe Coltrane’s unique style of improvisational playing. It’s an apt phrase not only for attempting to capture in writing the spirit and energy of Coltrane’s distinctive style\, but also for acting as a metaphoric descriptor for the very genre of liner notes. As an important part of the history of jazz and creative improvised music\, liner notes might themselves be considered as something akin to “sheets of sound” that have played a vital role in shaping our understanding of the music. \n“Part publication relations blitz\, part advertisement\, part advance directive for hipsters\, part forum for writers hoping to match chops with the musicians they adored\, liner notes accomplished several tasks at once” writes Timothy Gray in his essay on “Jazz Criticism and Liner Notes” in the recently published volume Jazz and American Culture. This year’s edition of The Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium invites presentations\, prompts\, and creative responses that reflect on some of these tasks\, and that take up the question of what it means to use the liner note genre to write about jazz and creative improvised music. \nIn what ways have liner notes shaped the way the music is received? To what extent do liner notes contribute to the ways in which we negotiate and construct meaning about the music\, how we understand history\, how and why we listen? In what ways have digital dissemination and streaming services disrupted our notions of liner notes? And how has this shifted listener/audience understanding about their favourite artists? \nCiting the “far-out notes produced by Sun Ra\, John Coltrane\,” and others\, Daphne Brooks in her book Liner Notes for the Revolution explains that “liner notes hold out the possibility of operating as critical\, fictional\, or experimental works of writing in and of themselves. Conventional liner notes\,” she suggests\, “often walk a fine line between pedagogy and socialization\, between sociohistorical and cultural reportage and heuristic conditioning (here’s how and why to love the artist in question). The most ambitious notes strive toward the narrative realization\, or the narrative reimagining\, of a sonic collection of songs altogether.” What\, then\, does it mean to engage in a narrative realization or reimagining of music? What are some of the critical\, fictional\, conceptual\, or experimental forms and practices being advanced by writers of liner notes? What is it like to hear about the music from the artist’s perspective\, and how might this shape the listener’s sonic experience? What is the future of liner notes in an age dominated by the digital delivery and dissemination of music? Does writing liner notes constitute a lost art or is the practice enjoying a resurgence? In what ways do archived/archival forms of liner notes play into thinking and writing about jazz and creative improvised music today? And what roles do artwork\, design and layout play in the presentation and impact of liner notes and the reception of an album? \nWe invite presentations that address these (and other related) questions and concerns\, as well as creative work that takes up the conference prompts. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary presentations that speak to both an academic audience and a general public. We also invite presenters to submit completed versions of their papers and presentations to our peer‐reviewed journal\, Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation (www.criticalimprov.com) for consideration. \nPlease send (500 word) proposals (for 15-minute delivery—alternate formats may also be considered) and a short bio by May 31\, 2024\, to Dr. Ajay Heble at jazzcoll@uoguelph.ca
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/cfp-2024-gjfc-sheets-of-sound-jazz-improvisation-and-liner-notes/
LOCATION:QC
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