How Do You Turn an Academic Book into an Opera? – George E. Lewis in Conversation with Harald Kisiedu Friday, March 4, 2016, 3-5 pm University of Guelph, MacKinnon Building Room 203

On January 9 and 10 in Halifax, the Upstream Music Association presented the Open Waters Festival of New and Improvised Music, featuring two days of creative ensembles mixing experimental, jazz and classical genres from Atlantic Canada as well as visiting artists from Quebec, Newfoundland and New York City. Bookended by Symphony Nova Scotia concerts with…

Somewhere There is staging its third annual Creative Music Festival at the Tranzac in Toronto February 20-22, 2015. It promises performances by more than 60 performers and composers doing important, boundary-pushing work. After an opening talk by Marie LeBlanc-Flanagan (Weird Canada) on Friday, performers will include Marilyn Lerner, Nicole Rampersaud, Brodie West, Tom Richards’ Riverrun,…

Improvisation in the Arts and Everyday Life: A Weekend of Performances, Dialogues, and Seminars will take place April 10-11, 2015 at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. IICSI researcherGeorge E. Lewis will deliver a keynote address and Curtis Goldstein is featured visual artist. There will be performances by Nicole Mitchell’s Ice Crystal and Jon Cowherd’s Mercy…

The 2015 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium invites submissions related to the theme “Among the People: Arts, Improvisation, and Well-Being.” How 
might participation 
in 
musical 
improvisation 
be 
understood to 
affect 
the 
health
–
physical, 
mental, 
spiritual, 
and relational
–
of 
those 
who 
participate 
in 
listening 
to 
or creating 
it? 500
 word
 proposals 
and 
a 
short 
bio are due 
by 
March 
15th,…

The monthly Improvising Spaces workshop and speaker series, curated by IICSI postdoctoral fellow Chris Tonelli, continues in St. John’s, Newfoundland with Session V: Conflict, Communication, & Improvisation at 6 pm on Monday, February 23 at the Rocket Room, 272 Water Street. This session features an interdisciplinary dialogue between Dr. Beverley Diamond, Research Chair in Ethnomusicology at…

Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation (CSI-ÉCI) invites submissions for a special issue with the theme “Cultural, social, and political issues of current improvisation practices in music,” guest-edited by Postdoctoral Fellow Amandine Pras (Columbia University). We seek contributions from scholars whose interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of music and life sciences disciplines (ethnology, anthropology,…

In 1965, a group of Chicago musicians assembled to form a collective that has pioneered improvised music as a forum not only for new sounds, but for new models of community-building and social practice. On Wednesday, April 22nd, Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) begins a week of city-wide concerts to celebrate…

Curated by PhD students Koichi Samuels and Tullis Rennie, and Dr Franziska Schroeder, the Sonic Arts Research Centre will be holding the Two Thousand+ FIFTEEN Symposium on Fractured Narratives – Improvised Sounds and Stories on April 25 as part of the Sonorities Festival 2015 in Belfast. Sonorities is taking place in two sites: April 17-20…

Curated by PhD students Koichi Samuels and Tullis Rennie, and Dr Franziska Schroeder, the Sonic Arts Research Centre will be holding the Two Thousand+ FIFTEEN Symposium on Fractured Narratives – Improvised Sounds and Stories on April 25 as part of the Sonorities Festival 2015 in Belfast. Sonorities is taking place in two sites: April 17-20…