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ICASP GRA Paul Watkins releases DJ project/album, Dedications.
Dedications is an experimental jazzy hip-hop remix project born out of a love of listening to records. The album mixes, mashes, samples, spins, cuts, signifies, rhapsodizes, poetizes, layers, collages, remixes, breaks,…
ImprovNotes December 2013 Artist of the Month: Rutherford Chang
Since little could be found out about Chang himself, other than the fact that he is an artist based in Shanghai and New York, who is known for his mathematically…
ImprovNotes November 2013 Artist of the Month: Wadada Leo Smith
Wadada Leo Smith is a trumpeter and mercurial composer working at the edges of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. Perhaps the rightful heir to Miles Davis, Smith is…
Oral Histories Project: Thomas King
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…
Sound Check: Thomas King’s Jazz Photography
“Sound Check”: the first major exhibition of storyteller Thomas King’s jazz photography. King’s contribution to the discourse of contemporary Canadian photography focuses an acute eye and a behind-the-scenes perspective on…
ImprovNotes October 2013 Artist of the Month: Tomomi Adachi
Tomomi Adachi (足 立 智美) is a Japanese vocal and electronics performer, improviser, composer, instrument builder, installation artist, theatre director, and sound poet. He is the only performer of sound…
Oral Histories Project: Tanya Tagaq
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…
The Guelph Reading Group is Back and it Swings!
Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speakers Series 2013-2014 The Reading Group is open to all – community members, faculty, and students – who are interested in improvisation as…
Thinking Spaces, the Guelph ICASP Reading Group returns Sept 27.
We’ll kick-off this year’s events with a visit from vocal improviser, composer, & sound poet, Tomomi Adachi (see below for more information). This opening event will happen at an irregular…
