News
ImprovNotes October 2015 Artist of the Month: Jimmy Blanton
This month marks the birthday of African American contrabassist Jimmy Blanton, who was born in Chatanooga, Tennessee on October 5, 1918. Trained as a violinist, Blanton took up the bass…
IICSI in Amsterdam “Jazz Beyond Borders” Rhythm Changes Conference
ICASP/IICSI associates Alan Stanbridge (University of Toronto, Scarborough) and David Lee (PhD candidate, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph) each recently returned from Europe, where they presented…
Silence, 46 Essex Street
This year’s Guelph Jazz Festival is bookended by Silence’s weekly morning music improvisation, every Monday morning at 9:30. Silence also has its own series of festival-related programming, available online on…
Guelph Jazz Festival
September 16-20 The 2015 Guelph Jazz Festival features an amazing line-up! New this year, Market Square runs Friday night in addition to Saturday. For the full line-up, information on tickets,…
This Week: Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium
Among the People: Arts, Improvisation, and Well-Being September 16-18 Downtown Guelph – Musagetes – Silence – Heritage Hall Highlights include: Wednesday September 16 Panel Showcase: Regina Improvisation Studies Centre: Improvisation,…
ImprovNotes September 2015 Artist of the Month: Jeanine Durning
Jeanine Durning is a dance and performance artist whose new piece, To Being, runs at New York’s Chocolate Factory Theater until September 26th, alongside a remount of its companion work,…
MSAC Becomes the Art Gallery of Guelph
Note to Guelph Jazz Festival goers: one of the festival’s best-loved venues, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (MSAC), is closed during this year’s festival while it undergoes major renovations. MSAC…
Think Pieces: Improvisation and Birdman; or, the Unexpected Virtue of Irony
Think pieces is a special project curated by PhD student Mark Kaethler. In this piece, Mark Kaethler delineates the different levels in which improvisation works in the Academy Award-winning filmBirdman:…
AUMI Consortium News: “Do You AUMI?”
August 31 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the AUMI/EMPAC/ARTs Department seminar, “New Instrumentation for Performance” included Maria Batlle and David Rothenberg. Directed by Pauline Oliveros, in collaboration with EMPAC guest artist Tarek…
Announcing Douglas Ewart, 2015 Improviser-in-Residence
IICSI is pleased to announce thatDouglas Ewart has been named the 2015 Improviser-in-Residence. Catch Douglas at the 2015 Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium on September 17th and 19th!
