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International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation--CFRU 93.3FM---Rachel Elliott

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Episode #63: Telematics

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2017/07/18

Many of us have attempted to maintain relationships with loved ones across distance using technologies such as the telephone or video chat; we are able to experience a sense of their presence even though they may be thousands of kilometres away. Jason Robinson and others, such as Doug Van Nort and Sara Weaver, make use … Continue reading Episode #63: Telematics →

Episode #62 – Pedagogy and Improvisation: Sara Villa,...

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2017/06/20

Sara Villa gives a moving and insightful account of her use of deep listening as a pedagogy of poetry for college students, Susan Elliott explains improvisation as a facet of the inquiry approach to high school teaching, and Stephanie Khoury revitalizes music education at the university level with her approachable and engaging interactive improvisation software. … Continue reading Episode #62 – Pedagogy and Improvisation: Sara Villa, Susan Elliott, Stephanie Khoury →

Episode #61 – Slowingdown Perception with Richelle...

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2017/06/06

Take in hand this bouquet of strings and let yourself be lead by this cluster of sonic helium balloons. But don’t let your feet leave the ground; today’s exquisitely lengthy musical meandering are interspersed with thought provoking reflections about the the pace of perception and sense-making by Richelle Forsey and Rachel Elliott. Listen and be … Continue reading Episode #61 – Slowingdown Perception with Richelle Forsey and Rachel Elliott →

Episode #60: David Lee – Improvisation in Toronto...

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2017/05/23

Why do so many young people uproot themselves and move to the city, searching for culture? What is it that they are looking for? How does their search shape what they find? These are some of the questions that frame this discussion with improviser and scholar, David Lee. David Lee was part of a community of … Continue reading Episode #60: David Lee – Improvisation in Toronto 1960 – 1985 →

Episode #59: Improvising Hospitality with Francesco...

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2017/05/02

Have you every had someone over to your house, as a guest? Did you spend much time thinking about the ethics of the situation? Of hospitality? In his later work, founding deconstructionist Jacques Derrida turned toward the concept of hospitality as a way to face questions about our ability to engage ethically with alterity, or otherness. … Continue reading Episode #59: Improvising Hospitality with Francesco Paradiso →

Episode #58: Musique Actuelle (matériel archivé)

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2017/03/28

Dans ce documentaire 2010, écoutez Meghan Dzyak et Hélène Laurin interviewer les participants du mouvement musique actuelle à Montréal, Québec. Découvrez le développement d’Ambiances Megnetiques à travers ses origines dans L’ensemble de Musique improvisée de Montréal et L’association pour la diffusion de la musique ouverte. Ces entretiens avec Jean Derome, Joane Hétu, Danielle Palardy Roger … Continue reading Episode #58: Musique Actuelle (matériel archivé) →

Episode #57 -Being There for the Duration: Sarah...

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2017/02/28

The philosopher Alfred Schütz points to a ‘mutual tuning-in relationship’ at the foundation of all possible communication. In this episode of Sound It Out we ask you to consider this theme in an audio journey through the Somewhere There creative music festival in Toronto. Explore how relationships of collaborative co-creation occur not only between performers on … Continue reading Episode #57 -Being There for the Duration: Sarah Kitz, David Dacks, and Nick Fraser →

Episode #56: Kid Koala, Master of Scratch (and...

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2017/02/01

You might think that music on a vinyl record is pretty much ‘set in stone,’ that at last we have hit upon a form of music to which improvisation is simply irrelevant. Well it turns out not. Kid Koala is a limitlessly creative scratch DJ from Montréal QC, currently touring his new album Music to … Continue reading Episode #56: Kid Koala, Master of Scratch (and stories!), in conversation with Mark V Campbell →

Episode #55: Ghanaian Producers as Improvising...

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2017/01/17

Lyricists and vocalists and often considered to be the ‘real artists’ in contrast with the activities of the producers they work with. In an article published in the journal Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, Leila Adu-Gilmore challenges this conception of the producer, arguing that their process amounts to music creation in the … Continue reading Episode #55: Ghanaian Producers as Improvising Composers: Appietus & DJ Breezy →

Episode #54- Pauline Oliveros (1932 – 2016)

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2016/12/20

Pauline Oliveros was a paragon of improvisation on many levels, embodying the virtues of reciprocity, openness, justice, and perhaps most of all, listening. Hear music and commentary about sonic meditation, deep listening, lesbian musicality, and Adaptive Use Musical Instruments as we commemorate the passing of this foundational figure in experimental music and affiliate if the … Continue reading Episode #54- Pauline Oliveros (1932 – 2016) →

Episode #53 – Jenny Mitchell and Iris Fraser: Brother...

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2016/12/06

There are stories, songs, even full movies, woven into the places where we live our lives. Jenny Mitchell and Iris Fraser-Gudrunas were coming-of-age sidekicks entering Toronto’s DIY art scene in the mid-2000s. Themselves gifted and perspicacious creators of music and multi-disciplinary art, their respective trajectories found them seeking out the stories and symbolism in the surrounding rural environments. Hear how Iris Fraser-Gudrunas … Continue reading Episode #53 – Jenny

Episode #52 – Tracey Nicholls Improvising Rage

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2016/11/22

Anthems are a means by which group identity is formed, and without group identity, argues to Professor Tracey Nicholls, the courage and imagination that justice work requires is in short supply. Today we discuss some of the anthems of the Black Lives Matter movement, such as Black Rage by Lauren Hill and Hell You Talmbout … Continue reading Episode #52 – Tracey Nicholls Improvising Rage →

Episode #51: Free Play of the Body – Beautiful...

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2016/11/08

Creative collaboration takes the reigns out of our hands. It demands we let go of control, leave aside our training, skill, mastery, and follow the free play of our embodied imagination. Sink into a hot bath and let the voices of Ellen Waterman and Alessandro Bertinetto warm up those rattly November bones. Waterman talks about her fluting explorations with pianist … Continue reading Episode #51: Free Play of the Body – Beautiful Communication with Ellen Waterman and

Episode #50 – Great Lakes as Productive Constraint:...

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2016/10/25

Four improvising composers, five great lakes: go. Phil Albert (Bass) and Patrick O’Reilly (Guitar) of Ontario meet with Patrick Booth (Saxophone) and Jon Taylor (Percussion) of Michigan for an intensive, week-long string of performances that embrace improvisation as much as composition. Hear the band discuss composition as a long-form improvisation (and the inverse!), staring down … Continue reading Episode #50 – Great Lakes as Productive Constraint: Composing Improvisation with

Episode #49 – The Sublime Sounds of Summer at...

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2016/10/12

Do you remember those hot humid days of summer that threatened to explode into thunderous storms and torrential rain? Listening to this week’s episode of Sound It Out will bring you back into those days, with field recordings, performances, and impromptu conversations taking place at the Electric Eclectics festival in Meaford, Ontario at the end … Continue reading Episode #49 – The Sublime Sounds of Summer at Electric Eclectics 2016 →

Episode #48 – Honouring Ken Aldcroft

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2016/09/27

Spend the next hour bathing in the peaceful guitar sounds of improvising guitarist and musical community builder Ken Aldcroft. Co-founder of the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto, the Leftover Daylight Series, the NOW Series, and serving on the board of the Somewhere There musicians’ collective, Ken Aldcroft’s sudden passing on September 17th, 2016 put Canada’s … Continue reading Episode #48 – Honouring Ken Aldcroft →

Episode #47 – Williamsburg, Brooklyn: A History of...

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2016/09/15

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the was a lawless environment on the other side of the Williamsburg Bridge that connects the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Gentrification and the aftermath of 9/11 made the Lower East Side undesirable for burgeoning young musicians, and Williamsburg with its industrial collapse and empty buildings … Continue reading Episode #47 – Williamsburg, Brooklyn: A History of Experimental Music Spaces (90s-00s) with Cisco Bradley →

Episode #46 – Hazarding Improvisation in Everyday...

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2016/09/13

Is improvisation a vital constituent of the everyday practices underlying vibrant and healthy psychic life? Marcel Swiboda discusses this idea with me in a detailed look at Of the Refrain by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. We consider historical and technological forces that constrain our ability to improvise daily, and whether professional improvising musicians, such as Ornette Coleman, provide the antidote … Continue reading Episode #46 – Hazarding Improvisation in Everyday

Episode #45 – Jazz Buddhists and Improvisatist Giving...

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2016/09/12

The list of jazz innovators who described Buddhism as central to their music and personal purpose is long – Ernestine Anderson, Herbie Hancock, Buster Williams, Richard Davis, Hamid Drake, and Terri Lyne Carrington are just a few. In this episode, Prof. Tracy McMullen discusses the implications of jazz buddhism on how we think about Black Critical Praxis, which, she contends, … Continue reading Episode #45 – Jazz Buddhists and Improvisatist Giving with Tracy McMullen

Episode #44 – Jazz is more than Jazz: A Guided...

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2016/08/31

The Guelph Jazz Festival has been taking place annually since 1994, attracting world-class performers and audiences to dear friendly Guelph, refreshing our spirits for the back-to-school season. This week’s episode of Sound It Out showcases a selection of music from performers that will be on stage at this year’s event. See the full festival schedule here: http://www.guelphjazzfestival.com/2016 … Continue reading Episode #44 – Jazz is more than Jazz: A Guided Musical Preview of the

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