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IICSI’s Director Ajay Heble in the University of Guelph’s independent student newspaper the Ontarion on the role of improvisation in the globalized world.

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IICSI Director Ajay Heble has been recognized with the 2016 SSHRC Impact Partnership Award.

In this Think Piece, Lefrense details how the musical practices of one of the four protagonists Oku, a second-generation Caribbean-Canadian, projects his “politics of being” through a personally curated soundtrack.

It is with great sadness that we wish to inform you that our fellow IICSI researcher and cherished friend, Pauline Oliveros, passed away peacefully, in her sleep, on November 24.

IICSI is pleased to announce that Dr. Harald Kisiedu, a postdoctoral fellow at Guelph in the 2015-16 year, has been awarded a second fellowship, to be held at the Memorial…

The third international Dalcroze Studies conference, ‘The Living Moment: Exploring Omprovisational Practice,’ is seeking presentations on improvisation, as it relates to Dalcroze Eurhythmics and music, movement and the mindful body more broadly.

The Canadian improvising community has been saddened by the death of Toronto guitarist Ken Aldcroft, who suffered a fatal heart attack on the morning of September 17. IICSI wishes to…

IICSI’s 2016 Improviser-in-Residence Kid Koala and the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium features in the press.

We’ve finished the video of Crepuscule 2016! Relive the magic of the massive community improvisation orchestrated by our 2015-2016 Improviser-in-Residence, Douglas R. Ewart, in Guelph Ontario’s Arboretum as the final event of his residency.