Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2011

Wednesday, September 7

Panel 1 (Plenary): 9:15-10:30 WRITING JAZZ

• Cecil Foster (Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph)
• Paul Watkins (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph)

Panel 2A: 10:45-12:00 PEDAGOGIES, MEDIA, AND IMPROVISATION

• Moderator: Stephanie Khoury
• Patrick Boyle (Jazz Studies, University of Victoria), “Finding Problems Together: Silent Films and Student Big Bands”
• Andrea Kuzmich (Ethnomusicology, York University), “Scoring Vocal Variability and Empowering the Singer with Choices”

Panel 2B:10:30-noon DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERACTIVITY: IMPROVISING MACHINES, IMPROVISATIONAL SOFTWARE, AND SAMPLING

• Moderator: TBA
• Eric Lewis (Philosophy, McGill University), “What can machines tell us about improvising? The case of Voyager.”
• Michael Pelz-Sherman (North Carolina), “Agile Jazz and Improvisational Software Development”

Lunch 12:00-1:30

Panel 3A: 1:30-2:45 RECORDING TECHNOLOGIES AND RECEPTION

• Moderator: TBA
• Michael Spencer (American Studies, Michigan State University), “Jazzing the Interior: Hi-Fi, FM, and the Reception of Jazz in the Post-WWII California Domestic Sphere”
• Alan Stanbridge (Visual and Performing Arts, University of Toronto), “Gone, in the Air? Improvisation and the Paradox of Sound Recording”

Panel 3B: 1:30-2:45 AURAL AND VISUAL CONFLUENCES (PART ONE)

• Moderator: TBA
• Alain Derbez (Mexico), “Jazz and Love and Art: Who is Jazzamoart?”
• Rob Jackson (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph), “”Exposures to Infinity”: Examining Robert Frank’s “The Americans””
• Sara Villa (Centre de recherche en éthique, Université de Montréal), “Intertwined Confessional Narratives: the Representation of Improvised jazz Solos in Jack Kerouac’s Major Novels”

Panel 4A: 3:00-4:14 THE FOUR FACES OF CONTACT IMPROVISATION

• John Faichney (Sociology, University of Waterloo), “On the Availability of Contact Improvisation to Onlookers”
• Tanya Williams (Fall on Your Feet Dance Studio), “On Shifting Centre of Gravity in My Body and Thought”
• Adam Euerby (Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo), “Contact Improvisation: Breaking Three Myths of Collaborative Partnerships”
• Sarah Tolmie (English, University of Waterloo), “Finding Your Other Half: Contact Improvisation as Extension of the Body Schema”

Panel 4B: 3:00-4:15 REPRESENTATION, MYTH, AND POWER

• Moderator: TBA
• David Lee (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph), Status Transactions, Power, and Performance in Improvised Music”
• Lisa Williams (American Studies, Michigan State University), “The Story of St. Bix: Myth, Cultural Meaning, and the Improvisation of a Jazz Legend
• Mark Laver (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice, University of Guelph), “Autoeroticism: Chryslers, Cyborgs, and the Look of Love”

Workshop 1: 4:15-5:00 CONTACT ENACTION: A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION OF CONTACT IMPROVISATION

• John Faichney, Tanya Williams, Adam Euerby, Sarah Tolmie

8:00 Performance: THE RENT

Thursday, September 8

Panel 5A: 9:15-10:45 WORDS AND MUSIC: POWERING UP (PART ONE)

• Moderator: TBA
• Olabanji Akinola (Political Science and International Development, University of Guelph) and Mopelolade Ogunbowale (History and International Development, University of Guelph), “The Role of Musical Improvisation in Social Advocacy: Whither Nigeria?”
• Barry Long (Music, Bucknell University), ““The Black Blower of the Now”: Coltrane, King, and Rhetorical Change”
• Tegan Ceschi-Smith (Music Education, University of British Columbia), “Fables of Faubus: Charles Mingus and the Carnegie Centre Jazz Band: Protesting Violence and Inequality”

Panel 5B: 9:15-10:45 IMPROVISING COMMUNITIES: TELEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY

• Moderator: Ben Grossman
• Michael Kaler (Music, York University), “Representing Musical Communities: The Presentation of Group Improvisational Music in A Joyful Noise and The Grateful Dead Movie”
• Jeff Albert (Experimental Music and Digital Media, Louisiana State University), “Improvisation as Tool and Intention: Organizational Practices in Laptop Orchestras and Their Effect on Personal Music Approaches”
• Jason Robinson (Music, Amherst College), “Improvising Latencies: Telematics, Improvisation, and the Paradoxes of Synchronicity”

WORKSHOP 2: 11:00 STEVE LACY’S TIPS IN DANCE AND MUSIC

• Susanna Hood, Scott Thomson, Alanna Kraaijeveld, Christine Duncan, Kyle Brenders

Lunch 12:00-1:00

Panel 6A: 2:15-3:30 WORDS AND MUSIC: POWERING UP (PART TWO)

• • Moderator: TBA
  • Carol Ann Weaver

(Music, University of Waterloo), “‘I Improvise, Therefore I Am’ – Story Telling as Improvisatory Music-Making in South Africa Today”

• Jack Wright (Spring Garden Music), “Resurgence and Challenge 1997-2011: free improvisation from a player’s perspective”
• Francois Houle (Vancouver Community College School of Music), “Cork Room: On Memory, Sampling, and Poetic Restructuralist Aspects in Live Performance”

Panel 6B: 2:15-3:30 AURAL VISUAL CONFLUENCES (PART TWO)

• Moderator: TBA
• Marcel Swiboda (Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK), “Transversal Technics Between Improvisation and Theory: Interstitial and Intermedial Extemporary Encounters”
• Kevin McNeilly (English, University of British Columbia), “Pierre Hebert, Scratching Dissent”
• Paul Watkins & Nicholas Loess (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph), “Spatial Stories, Sampled Memories, and Intermedial Improvisations

KEYNOTE 3:45-4:30

• Introductory Remarks: TBA
• Aldon Lynn Neilsen (Department of English, Pennsylvania State University) “Meeting over Yonder”: Parker, Baraka, Mayfield”

Friday September 9

Keynote 9:15-10:30

• Introductory remarks: TBA
• Jayne Cortez, (Poet; President, Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc.) “Find Your Own Voice and Use It”

PRESENTATION: 10:45- 11:15 “MUSIC THERAPY VIA REMOTE VIDEO TECHNOLOGY: A CASE REVIEW”

• Aaron Lightstone (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)

POETRY READING 11:30-noon

• Kevin McNeilly (with improvised musical accompaniment)

Lunch 12:00-1:00

WORKSHOP 4: 1:00:-2:15 PASSAGES: THE NORTH BY NORTHWEST SERIES

• Alexandre Pierrepont (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Université de Paris VII / Sciences Po, France), Didier Petit (France), Marianne Trudel (Quebec), and Gerry Hemingway (Hochshule Luzern, Switzerland)

ONSTAGE INTERVIEW WITH HENRY THREADGILL 2:45-3:30

• Interviewed by Daniel Fischlin (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph)

PERFORMANCE 5:00 MARIANNE TRUDEL SEPTET