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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…
AUMI Consortium News
AUMI–CCC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: At the Nov. 3 “New Instrumentation for Performance” Seminar at RPI, Henry Lowengard demonstrated the use of large balloons to transmit the vibrations of music…
Call for Students! Fine Arts at the U of Regina
The University of Regina is now accepting applications for graduate degrees in Fine Arts (music, theatre, film, visual arts and interdisciplinary programs). The presence of the IICSI site at the University…
ImprovNotes November 2015 Artist of the Month: Don Thompson
Don Thompson, born January 18, 1940 in Powell River, British Columbia, had piano lessons as a child, and learned to play string bass and vibraphone in his teens. Moving to…
New Jazz Education Newsletter
From Indiana University, Monica Herzig announces the first edition of JENRing News: “a regular source of information in the field of jazz research as well as current job opportunities, callouts,…
Congratulations, David Lametti and Jane Bunnett!
In Canada’s October federal election, Canada ushered in a new Liberal government, and a new prime minister, Justin Trudeau.Here at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, we are…
