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Toronto alto saxophonist Karen Ng is in Europe performing with both old and new collaborators. April 16 she is at Miss Hecker in Berlin with Ken Aldcroft, Scott Thomson and…

InTensions invites submissions of art works and scholarly articles that consider expectations, rationales, tensions, and risks embedded in efforts to use the arts to foster more just social relationships. This special issue of InTensions begins from the claim that the arts (or specific art forms, or artworks) have a particular capacity to facilitate just and ethical social relations.

World-renowned percussion virtuoso, Indian music scholar and composer, and the founding director of Indian music studies at York University Trichy Sankaran, will be leading a workshop in South Asian musical traditions with Autorickshaw Trio at Silence on Wednesday, March 30th 2016.

One of this year’s Academy Award winners was part of a major European improvising collective from 1964 until 1980. Like his American contemporary John Williams, Ennio Morricone, (who won an…

The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation – JEN Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. is looking for a serious educator / student / music…

The Society for Ethnomusicology is soliciting submissions for its growing bibliography of resources on improvisation. Interested contributors should register with the Zotero platform. This bibliography of resources will consist of…

The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) is happy to announce that its 10th Anniversary special event will take place in Korea, hosted by Jeonju International Sori Festival 2016 (전주세계소리축제) in Jeonju province, South Korea. ISIM invites proposals for a total of twenty people to perform and participate in workshops at Jeonju International Sori Festival.

It is with great sadness that IICSI shares the news of the passing of Dr. Jo-Ann Episkenew on February 18, 2016. As Director of the Indigenous People’s Health Research Centre and a member of the IICSI research team, she has been a generous thinker, friend, and colleague to many. Our thoughts and hearts are with her family and friends at this difficult time.

Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity (edited by Gillian Siddall and Ellen Waterman) is the newest book in the “Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice” series from Duke University Press. The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity is formed and expressed through musical improvisation, tracing the ways the transmission and reception of sound occur within and between bodies in real and virtual time and across memory, history, and space.

Registration is now open for the fourth Rhythm Changes conference, Jazz Utopia. This event will feature academic papers, panels and poster sessions alongside an exciting programme of concerts delivered in partnership with the Birmingham Conservatoire and THSH-Jazzlines.