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things that you hope a human being will be

Alissa Firth-Eagland, Ajay Heble

Published: 2012-09-07

TEXT: This comprehensive overview of Jane Bunnett's year as Improviser-In-Residence includes a short biography, an interview with Bunnett by Ajay Heble, for a session of Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker series, and an essay by Guelph-based artist Dawn Matheson, who documented many of Bunnett's projects. Matheson's essay includes photos, first impressions, two impromptu interviews, and multiple summaries of the experience behind the videos (included as part of the publication). VIDEO: Content of enclosed DVD: Matheson's films, "Katy's Song" (http://www.improvcommunity.ca/research/katys-song), "Interruptions" (http://www.improvcommunity.ca/research/interruptions), and "Jane Bunnett and the Vertical Squirrels" (http://www.improvcommunity.ca/research/concert-jane-bunnett-and-vertical...), and video by Matheson and Nicholas Loess, "Sound Painting" (http://www.improvcommunity.ca/research/sound-painting).

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Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis