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SUMMARY:Jamming the Classroom: Book Launch & Concert
DESCRIPTION:-IICSI is pleased to present a book launch & concert by Ajay Heble & Jesse Stewart! Please join us at the ImprovLab at 3 PM on Saturday\, November 25th for this free event\, open to all!  Please RSVP here to confirm your attendance. \nBooks will be on hand for purchase! \nFor those who cannot make it in person\, the concert will be live-streamed on IICSI’s official Twitch stream! \n— \nAbout the book: \nJamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice \nDrawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography\, secondary literature\, interviews with leading improvisers\, and personal anecdotal material\, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching\, learning\, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to “jam the classroom” is to argue for a renewed understanding of improvisation as both a musical and a social practice; to activate the knowledge and resources associated with improvisational practices in an expression of noncompliance with dominant orders of knowledge production; and to recognize in the musical practices of aggrieved communities something far from the reaches of conventional forms of institutionalized power\, yet something equally powerful\, urgent\, and expansive. With this definition of jamming the classroom in mind\, Heble and Stewart argue that even as improvisation gains recognition within mainstream institutions (including classrooms in universities)\, it needs to be understood as a critique of dominant institutionalized assumptions and epistemic orders. Suggesting a closer consideration of why musical improvisation has been largely expunged from dominant models of pedagogical inquiry in both classrooms and communities\, this book asks what it means to theorize the pedagogy of improvised music in relation to public programs of action\, debate\, and critical practice. \nAbout the authors: \nAjay Heble is Professor of English and Director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph. In 2023 he was awarded the Killam Prize in the Humanities.  \nJesse Stewart is Associate Professor of Music at the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University. He is also the founder of We Are All Musicians\, an organization dedicated to fostering inclusive music making.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/jamming-the-classroom-book-launch-concert/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Dans les arbres Workshop
DESCRIPTION:IICSI is pleased to present a workshop by Dans les arbres! Please join us at the ImprovLab at 2 PM on Thursday\, November 30th for this free event\, open to all! \nDans les arbres is an improvising ensemble comprising French clarinetist Xavier Charles alongside three Norwegians: pianist Christian Wallumrød\, guitarist Ivar Grydeland\, and percussionist Ingar Zach. One of the main focuses for Dans les arbres has been to develop an “ensemble sound.” In this workshop\, Dans les arbres will demonstrate their methods and invite participants to join in improvising together in a large ensemble–an extended Dans les arbres. Bring your instruments! \nThe workshop will be followed by a free concert by Dans les arbres at 8 PM. \nPlease RSVP here to reserve your slot! \n 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/dans-les-arbres-workshop/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Dans les arbres In Concert
DESCRIPTION:Following their free workshop earlier that day\, Dans les arbres will be performing a free concert at 8 PM on Thursday\, November 30\, in the ImprovLab! As with the workshop\, this event is free and open to all. \nDans les arbres is an improvising ensemble comprising French clarinetist Xavier Charles alongside three Norwegians: pianist Christian Wallumrød\, guitarist Ivar Grydeland\, and percussionist Ingar Zach. \nThe group’s idiosyncratic inhabitants form unusual combinations of airy\, wooden\, metallic sounds\, prepared strings\, and tampered drumheads. Their world of sounds and fine sense of communication lead to collective playing and spontaneous group-composing said to be in a “class of its own.” Their music moves gently but steadily ahead on broad planes of sound. The dynamic textural scenery evolves as Dans les arbres harnesses its wealth of unorthodox extended techniques. \nSince the recording of their first album in 2006\, Dans les arbres has performed more than 150 concerts around the globe. The group’s releases Dans Les Arbres (ECM 2008)\, Canopée (ECM 2012)\, Phosphorescence (HUBRO 2017)\, and Volatil (SOFA 2019) have received praise from reviewers and audiences alike. In 2019\, Dans les arbres started releasing music from special projects on the group’s Bandcamp profile. Dans les arbres was nominated for the prestigious Nordic Music Prize in 2015. Dans les arbres has performed with guest musicians such as Yumiko Tanaka\, Otomo Yoshihide\, Jim O’Rourke\, the Norwegian duo Vilde & Inga\, and The Norwegian Wind Ensemble. Together with singers and the Oslo Sinfonietta\, the group performed the piece About Nature by Henrik Hellstenius at the Oslo Opera House in 2015. \nPlease RSVP here to reserve your concert ticket!
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/dans-les-arbres-in-concert/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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