Project News
Call For Papers: Sound Lines - Improvisation, Text and Media Conference
March 3, 2010 by elizabeth.jackson
The ongoing emergence of new media presents both challenges and opportunities for improvisers from around the world. ICASP – in conjunction with Coastal Jazz and the University of British Columbia – invites proposals for presentations at Sound Lines, a conference on improvisation, text and media to take place June 24 and 25, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, alongside the TD Canada Trust Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Proposals are due by April 7th.Lecture: Deep Improvisation and Dramaturgy across Difference
February 17, 2010 by elizabeth.jackson
On Wednesday February 24th from 5-7 pm, core ICASP researcher Professor Ric Knowles will be talking about his experience working as a dramaturge with improvising theatre performers in Toronto. Following his lecture, "Deep Improvisation & Dramaturgy across Difference: "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way," participants will have the opportunity to ask questions in a warm, informal setting. Wine and refreshments will be available. View the conference poster here.Social Aesthetics Conference: Improvisation & Social Research Group
February 12, 2010 by elizabeth.jackson
From March 12 - 14, 2010, ICASP will host a Social Aesthetics Conference at McGill University.This conference explores the question of the extent to which the social and dialogical practices which are foregrounded in improvisation are themselves bearers of aesthetic effects. At the same time, speakers will consider how social, cultural, economic and political forces condition the aesthetic practices and values of improvised performance. In this way the conference is concerned with re-theorising the nature of the aesthetic in improvisational and related creative practices.
4th Annual Creative Music Festival and Symposium at Guelph
February 5, 2010 by elizabeth.jackson
The University of Guelph Music Students' Association, Music Department and School of Fine Art and Music are holding the 4th Annual Creative Music Festival and Symposium Tuesday, February 9th - Thursday, February 11th, 2010. Join us for student performances, presentations, open classes, rehearsals, discussions, a performance by Dr. Ellen Waterman and Dr. James Harley's duo "Spin" for computer and flutes, and a keynote talk on "Queering Genre: Michael Jackson's Undoing of Pop Music Convention" by Dr. Susan Fast (McMaster). For further information and schedule, see the Music Students' Association website for information and details on proposal requirements.2010 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Call for Papers
January 27, 2010 by elizabeth.jackson
The Guelph Jazz Festival, in conjunction with the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, the University of Guelph, and the SSHRC MCRI research project on "Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice," invites proposals for papers to be presented at our annual three-day international interdisciplinary conference. Proposals or papers should be submitted by May 31, 2010 to The 2010 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium c/o Dr. Ajay Heble, Artistic Director, The Guelph Jazz Festival email: jazzcoll@uoguelph.ca .- 1 of 11
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Centered at the University of Guelph (and in partnership with McGill University, the University of British Columbia, and Université de Montréal), this international research project explores musical improvisation as a model for social change. Read more...
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