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Do you want to work for IICSI? IICSI is currently seeking GRAs and/or URAs for the positions of Video Editor and Website Content Development & Maintenance. … The International Institute for Critical…

International Society for Improvised Music 9th Festival and Conference Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo and Toronto, Ontario Canada May 12-15, 2016 CALL FOR PROPOSALS The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM)…

In Guelph, Ontario, vocalist Carey West is hosting a vocal improvisation gathering at Silence on the fourth Sunday of every month. She has formed a Facebook group, Circle Singing and…

This year’s Guelph Jazz Festival saw the debut of the Capacitance series on Sundays from 2-4pm at 42 Quebec Street, Guelph, third floor studio. Curator Lynette Segal says, “Improvisation demands…

One of the landmark events marking the 50th anniversary of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) has been the MCA Studio’s two performances of Afterword, the AACM (as)…

Do you want to work for IICSI? IICSI is hiring a Project Manager! The position is based in Guelph, Ontario. Applications are being accepted until October 23rd. The duties of the…

On September 16th, 17th, and 18th downtown Guelph played host to the 2015 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium. The Colloquium was a total success featuring numerous paper presentations, workshops, and keynote…

Improv Notes extends its congratulations to IICSI student researcher Brian Lefresne, who has just won a Morroe Berger-Benny Carter Jazz Research Fund award from the Institute of Jazz Studies at…

Improv Notes is pleased to welcome Harald Kisiedu as an IICSI postdoctoral fellow for the academic year 2015-2016. Harald received his PhD in Historical Musicology from Columbia University in 2014…

Improfil Theory and Practice of Improvised Music Call for Papers/ Issue 2016 Musical Improvisation and the Body For Improfil 2016 as main subject we would like to envisage Musical Improvisation…