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IICSI in Vancouver, University of British Columbia
Following Susanna Hood’s and Scott Thomson’s noon-hour performance of The Muted Note: Songs Based on Poems by P.K. Page, IICSI convened a colloquium called “Extraordinary Presences: Women, Poetry, Art Song”…
IICSI in Athens, Greece Sounding Possibilities: Improvisation and Community Action Symposium
“Sounding Possibilities: Improvisation and Community Action” is the title of a symposium that took place November 1 and 2 in Athens. A joint production of IICSI and the Onassis Cultural…
The Improvisation Studies Reader: Spontaneous Acts Ajay Heble & Rebecca Caines (eds)
Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention. In recent years it has coalesced into an exciting and innovative new field of interdisciplinary…
Assistant Professor Position in Music: Composer-Improviser University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine is seeking applicants for a composer-improviser with an established reputation who will diversify the range of contemporary creative practices explored in the department’s graduate program in…
ImprovNotes October 2014 Artist of the Month: Kenny Wheeler (1930-2014)
At the Rex in Toronto on October 2, saxophonist Mike Murley (with a quintet of John MacLeod trumpet, Jim Vivian bass, Dave Restivo piano and Ted Warren drums) paid tribute…
Call for Artists: Boarding House Arts Incubator 2015-2016 Call for Submissions (due Oct 31)
Boarding House Arts Incubator is an eighteen-month studio residency and mentoring program designed to help Guelph area artists advance their professional careers. Artists are selected through a competitive process in…
The Muted Note: Scott Thomson and Susanna Hood
This autumn, former ICASP improvisers-in-residence Scott Thomson and Susanna Hood will perform their new suite The Muted Note a total of 40 times in nine provinces across Canada. Critic Stuart Broomer…
Think Pieces Improvisation and Interspecies Performance (Kimber Sider)
Think pieces is a special project curated by PhD student Mark Kaethler (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph). In this piece, Kimber Sider develops a unique theory…
ImprovNotes September 2014 Artist of the Month: FLYING LOTUS
Last month featured one of the great architects of Afrofuturism: the one and only Sun Ra and his Arkestra. From Sun Ra to Janelle Monáe, Afrofuturism lets us know where…
Oral Histories Project: Amiri Baraka and William Parker
Oral Histories is a showcase of interviews, performances, and articles by and about improvising musicians, artists, writers and scholars. “People Get Ready”/ The Future of Jazz: Amiri Baraka and William Parker…
