News

Short Takes from the June 2018 issue of Improv Notes!

Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning: Off the Cuff: Mnidoo Infinity Squeezed Through Finite Modulations

Hovering at the Edge: Words, Music, Sound, and Song is the theme of this year’s Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium. Hosted by IICSI in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival, the University of Guelph, and the Art Gallery of Guelph, the Colloquium will run September 12-15. The Colloquium will feature curated panels, speakers, and performances, with participants riffing on the interplay among words, music, sound, and song.

Read the latest Think Piece in our online Research Library, “Are dissonances and group agreement compatible?” on the IICSI’s Play Who You Are program

Short Takes from the May 2018 issue of Improv Notes, edited and written by David Lee and assembled by administrative assistant Rachel Collins.

The Guelph Jazz Festival is currently posting two summer student positions: Marketing Assistant and Operations Assistant, both supported by a Canada Summer Jobs grant. Applications for both positions are due on Tuesday, 22 May.

… Short Takes from the April 2018 edition of the Improv Notes newsletter.

A Special Issue of Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation – Just Improvisation: Enriching Law through Musical Techniques, Discourses, and Pedagogies, Vol. 12, No 1 is now available online.

Aspects of Trees by Andrew Denton and Teresa Connors, performed February 2, 2018, with Dr. Ellen Waterman (Flute/Voice), Jing Xia (Guzheng), and Teresa Connors (Laptop and iPad) during the Newfound Music Festival XV.

From the March 2018 issue of Improv Notes.