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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…
Oral Histories Project: Muhal Richard Abrams, George E. Lewis, & Roscoe Mitchell
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…
CFP: Improvising Across Borders
The Center for Improvised Arts, Performance and Research, which is sponsored by the Agosto Foundation, invites proposals for papers and presentations at Improvising Across Borders (IAB 2014), an inter-disciplinary festival and symposium…
ImprovNotes January 2014 Artist of the Month: Sex Mob
Sex Mob is a New York City jazz group, which initially began as a way to feature the slide trumpet of leader Steven Bernstein. Since then the band, as Bernstein’s…
UoG’s spotlight on David Lee
PhD candidate and ICASP GRA David Lee looks at how improvisation brings musicians together Books, more books, and a double bass: That’s what confronts a visitor to David Lee’s office…
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,…
