Listen to the Multiplay improvising sound artist Michael Waterman on CJTR FM, and then join us right after for an afterparty talkback in April 2020.

IICSI’s online journal Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation invites submissions from writers with a passion for improvisation and art.

Music scholars (broadly considered) who were planning to give a paper at now canceled conferences are invited to present at the online Music Scholarship at a Distance Colloquium.

The annual Creative Music Symposium features a keynote, presentations, workshops, talks, seminars, concerts and a trivia night.

Eric Fillion is giving the Thinking Spaces talk “Jazz Libre: The Musical-Political Praxis of the Quebec Left” about free jazz, improvisation, and the Québec left on March 12, as part of the University of Guelph 14th annual Music Symposium.

Composers Gayle Young and James Harley present an immersive improvised music for live electronics with rocks and other home-made instruments at Silence in Guelph, March 1, 2020.

James Wood will discuss Plastic Time, relating to a practice he calls Optimistic Criticism – a method of rhythmic and temporal analysis and notation that incorporates artistic research and a questioning of institutional biases of justification

Thinking Spaces presents Collaborational Issues Between Improvisers & Composers with James Harley, Professor of Music and Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph.

Swing by Silence for Morning Music – an invigorating morning session of #improvisation to start your week just right. $5 or free w/ a breakfast food contribution.

By Reza Yazdanpanah last Sunday of every month Featuring Isaiah Farahbakhsh on Cello, Jan 26, 2020 2:30 pm – 4 pm. $15 suggestion donation or PWYC Silence – 46 Essex St. near downtown Guelph After hosting two concerts in Guelph, featuring the poetry of Rumi, I now appreciate that many Canadian only know Mowlavi’s poetry…