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ImprovNotes January 2016 Artist of the Month: Paul Bley (1932-2015)
Canadian jazz artist Paul Bley, who died January 3 at the age of 83, was an improvising pianist, and proudly so. “In jazz, the composers were generally inept pianists,” he…
Open Waters Festival, Halifax
The annual Open Waters Festival of new and improvised music took place January 7-10 at Sir James Dunn Theatre, the Atlantica Hotel, the Central Library, and The Company House in…
Open Waters Festival
Open Waters Festival: 4 Halifax locations – 14 extraordinary events – Sir James Dunn Theatre, Dalhousie Arts Centre – The Atlantica Hotel, Commons Room – The Halifax Central Library – The…
CFP: MUN Colloquium 2016, St. John’s NL
IICSI-MUN Colloquium Memorial University of Newfoundland July 6-8, 2016 Improvisation as Intercultural Contact and Dialogue The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at Memorial University (IICSI-MUN) invites proposals for…
ImprovNotes on Southwestern Ontario Performance
A circuit around Toronto is beginning to provide an unprecedented infrastructure for improvising musicians in southwestern Ontario. This autumn, the Admission of Guilt series presented Diatribes (from Switzerland); the Hamilton…
When Rivers Meet
When Rivers Meet was an improvised performance that took place on November 29, 2014 at the River Run Centre in Guelph, Ontario, featuring the Guelph Symphony Orchestra conducted by Judith Yan; the…
ImprovNotes December 2015 Artist of the Month: Moe Clark
Moe Clark is a multidisciplinary Métis artist, looping pedal mistress, spoken word poet, educator, artistic producer, public speaker, and activist. Late in November, she spent a week’s residency at London,…
International Symposium of Electronic Arts Residency
IICSI wishes to extend a warm congratulations to Rebecca Caines (site coordinator, Regina Improvisation Studies Centre) and John Campbell who have just been awarded the KAF x FUSE artist residency…
Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera
IICSI researcher George E. Lewis announces that a live recording of his new opera Afterword, performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November 2015, is being streamed on the…
Think Pieces: Improvisation and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
“Improvisation and the Syrian Refugee Crisis” is the newest in the series of Think Pieces. In this piece, Paul Watkins discusses the ways in which social and musical improvisation can…
