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Oral Histories Project: d’bi.young anitafrika

“we tellin’ stories yo”: A Performance and Interview with d’bi.young. d’bi.young anitafrika is a Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, monodramatist, educator, and Dora Award-winning actor and playwright. In this month’s Oral History…

CCRMA TeleConcert Video at Stanford with Zhao Cong, Ellen Waterman, and Viv Corringham

There has been a variety of IICSI activity at the School of Music at Memorial University lately, including a residency with British vocalist, sound artist, improviser, and composer, currently based…

Oral Histories Project: Wayde Compton

Oral Histories is a showcase of interviews, performances, and articles by and about improvising musicians, artists, writers, and scholars. This monthly feature offers an intimate look inside the minds and practices…

Artist Residency CFP: The Agosto Foundation / CIAPR Summer Artist-In-Residency Program

The Agosto Foundation / CIAPR Summer Artist-In-Residency Program invites proposals from individuals who wish to participate in a diverse interdisciplinary community of artists from multiple fields and scholarly pursuits, whose interest is to…

Genuine Multiculturalism While many modern societies are noted for their diversity, the resulting challenge is to determine how citizens from different backgrounds and cultures can see themselves and each other…

ImprovNotes February 2014 Artist of the Month: Steve Reich

Stephen Michael Reich is one of America’s most influential and important living composers. Along with composers like Philip Glass and La Monte Young, Reich helped usher in minimal music in…

Oral Histories Project: Fresh Kils

Oral Histories is a showcase of interviews, performances, and articles by and about improvising musicians, artists, writers and scholars. This monthly feature offers an intimate look inside the minds and practices…

Spotlight on ICASP Postdoctoral Fellows

Each Postdoctoral Fellow was asked: 1.) Tell us a little about your current research and how it relates to improvisation? 2.) Can you name an album that is seminal for…

CFP: ISIM Seventh Festival-Conference 2014, New York NY

June 5-8, 2014 
NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY NEW YORK CITY
 Cross-cultural Improvisation III Hosted jointly by the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and Mannes College The New School for Music.…

Art of Immersive Soundscapes: New book by ICASP Team Members Ellen Waterman, Pauline Minevich, and James Harley

The Art of Immersive Soundscapes is a new publication edited by ICASP/IICSI team members Ellen Waterman (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Pauline Minevich (University of Regina), and James Harley (University of…