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Episode #43 – Crepuscule in the Arboretum with...

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2016/08/16

Imagine wandering around an arboretum and running into pods of musicians, dancers, puppets, and percussive farming equipment amid hundreds of other wandering folk. This is what took place on May 18th, 2016 in the Guelph Arboretum, the culminating event of Douglas R. Ewart’s term as Improviser-in-Residence. Crepuscule brings together diverse communities in a playful, multidimensional … Continue reading Episode #43 – Crepuscule in the Arboretum with Douglas R. Ewart →

Episode #42 – Improvising Electronics with Gambletron

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2016/07/19

When you look at the mess of equipment in front of electronic musical experimenter Lisa Gamble, your head can start to swim. The mystery of musicianship is always apparent when you observe an instrument not being played. By what sorcery will they coax this object into music? We wonder this about even the most straightforward instruments. The magic in the encounter … Continue reading Episode #42 – Improvising Electronics with Gambletron →

Episode #41 – IICSI Research Studio Session

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2016/07/06

The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation has a number of graduate student researchers working with them at the University of Guelph. In this episode you will meet them! There are seven 3-minute speeches by IICSI researchers detailing their interest in improvisation and how they do their research contained in today’s program. One of these … Continue reading Episode #41 – IICSI Research Studio Session →

Episode #40 The Origins of Jazz Experimentalism in...

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2016/05/24

What comes to mind when you think about East Germany during the Cold War? Transnational black experimentalism? On today’s episode of Sound It Out historical musicologist Harald Kisiedu traces the development of experimental jazz through the innovative musical dynamo Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky. Kisiedu shows how the institutional discourses of the time pinpoint aesthetics as a critical … Continue reading Episode #40 The Origins of Jazz Experimentalism in East Germany – Harald Kisiedu talks

Episode #39 – Adaptave Use Technology (archive...

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2016/05/10

One way of understanding the social importance of improvisation is its accessibility – anyone can improvise with anything, so long as the musical relationships involved respect the rules of improvisatory engagement – good listening, judicious risk taking, responsibility for others etc. The tight and tired world of elitist musical aims is no longer palatable to many of us, and improvisation, … Continue reading Episode #39 – Adaptave Use Technology (archive conversation)

Episode #38 – Music Ontology with Eric Lewis

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2016/04/13

This conversation with philosopher Eric Lewis of McGill University centres around the question ‘what is music’, or more specifically, ‘what is improvised music?’ Prof. Lewis explains why a consideration of improvised music can re-frame some of the questions traditionally associated with the philosophical study of music, such as how a musical work is related ontologically … Continue reading Episode #38 – Music Ontology with Eric Lewis →

Episode #37 – Silence and Mindfulness with Gary Diggins

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2016/03/29

“Sound work as soul work.” This is how Gary Diggins describes what he does in his chamber of wonders located in the back of Guelph’s ‘venue for adventurous sounds’, Silence. A life-long musician and masterful musical healer, Diggins has worked with individuals and groups around the world using sound to elevate consciousness, promote healing, remind us … Continue reading Episode #37 – Silence and Mindfulness with Gary Diggins →

Episode #36: AACM Origins and Apocrypha – George E....

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2016/03/16

Can you make a libretto out of an academic book? This is the question George E. Lewis asked and answered during his visit to the University of Guelph on March 4th, 2016. Drawing from the audio recordings of early AACM organizational meetings where members discussed their motivations for forming the Association, Lewis responds in the affirmative, transforming a … Continue reading Episode #36: AACM Origins and Apocrypha – George E. Lewis’s Opera ‘Afterword’ →

Episode #35: Solo Improvisation at Somewhere There...

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2016/03/02

If improvising is sometimes understood as a form of dialogue, what are we to say about solo improvising? Perhaps it should be understood as a dialogue with oneself, or between performer and audience, or performer and their own instrument, or even the performer’s own sonic memories, of trucks, birds, voices. Maybe it has another sort … Continue reading Episode #35: Solo Improvisation at Somewhere There Festival →

Episode #34: Adam Kinner – Atmosphere and the...

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2016/02/03

The weather affects us. This is never more obvious than in the middle of winter! But what would happen if we began to respond to atmospheric influences artistically, rather than just practically? If instead of cinching up our scarves we responded to the falling snow with a little improvised saxophone? And then paired that musical response with dance … Continue reading Episode #34: Adam Kinner – Atmosphere and the Transmutable Archive →

Episode #33:The Body and Improvised Electronic Music:...

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2016/01/19

The discussion that you’ll hear took place in 2011 between the Hamilton-based scholar, filmmaker, and writing instructor Mauricio Martinez, and scholar, journalist, and improvising sound artist Bob Ostertag. This conversation has a gorgeous pace about it, with Ostertag calmly articulating his thoughts about technology and improvisation, especially electronic musical production. His inviting speaking style will … Continue reading Episode #33:The Body and Improvised Electronic Music: Bob

Episode #32: Silent Communication – Interspecies...

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2016/01/05

This show is about interspecies communication in the context of musical performance. According to today’s guest, Kimber Sider, horses are a sort of barometer for musical connection, since music is not just about sound but is a conduit to a silent embodied layer of meaning that is the basis for empathetic communication, affective connection, and emotional … Continue reading Episode #32: Silent Communication – Interspecies Music with Kimber Sider →

Episode #31: Social Aesthetics (IICSI archive)

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2015/12/28

The Social Aesthetics Conference that took place at McGill University in 2010, put on by ICASP (http://improvcommunity.ca), the predecessor for the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (http://improvisationinstitute.ca/), was a consideration of how social, cultural, economic and political forces condition the aesthetic practices and values of improvised performance. This is an archived discussion between … Continue reading Episode #31: Social Aesthetics

Episode #30: Collective Intention – Gary Lachance &...

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2015/12/08

This episode reflects on the exuberance of the Decentralized Dance Party from the point of view of a forest’s quiet clearing. I walk and talk with DDP creator Gary Lachance about the past, present, and future of this unique form of participatory public art. Championing the values of decentralization and inclusivity, the DDP facilitates opportunities for people to meet in public places and interact … Continue reading Episode #30: Collective Intention – Gary Lachance & the

Episode #29: William Parker and Amiri Baraka on the...

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2015/11/05

In this archival conversation from 2007 between Amiri Baraka and William Parker, you will hear about the importance of Curtis Mayfield to Black pride and identity, how commercialism leads to divisions in the Jazz world, the way that mixed genre music can best reflect different aspects of one people, like Duke Ellington making a chronology of Black life in one … Continue reading Episode #29: William Parker and Amiri Baraka on the Future of Jazz (IICSI Archive) →

Episode #28: The Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium –...

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2015/10/23

This episode features live recordings of two of the public talks given during the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium this year (Sept. 16 – Sept. 18). The first is by Rene Meshake and is entitled “The Gift of the Red-Tailed Hawk Flute”. The second is by Kathe Gray of York University and is called “Don’t Worry … Continue reading Episode #28: The Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium – Improvisation and Personal Transformation →

Episode #27: Douglas R. Ewart, Improviser-in-Residence

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2015/09/25

This year, Guelph’s Improviser-in-Residence is Douglas R. Ewart of the Art Institute of Chicago, AACM, and Aarawak Records. In this episode of Sound It Out you will hear Ewart discuss his project Crepuscule in an interview with Dr. Ajay Heble that took place the morning of September 17, 2015 as part of the yearly Jazz … Continue reading Episode #27: Douglas R. Ewart, Improviser-in-Residence →

Episode #26: The Character of Voice – Ruby Kato...

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2015/09/10

Today I talk with artist, musician, singer, researcher, and performer Ruby Kato Attwood about the beginnings of her new research project into voice and identity in contemporary music. Attwood is undertaking library and archive work as well as practice based-research in opera singing in order to understanding how developing this most intimate instrument can open … Continue reading Episode #26: The Character of Voice – Ruby Kato Attwood on Exclusion and Appropriation in

Episode #25: Gesture Bending and the Poetics of...

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2015/08/29

This episode showcases the work of Navid Navab, a Montreal-based media alchemist, composer/improvisor, audio-visual sculptor, and multidisciplinary artist. Navab’s catalogue of work is diverse and varied, from interactive, public, sound extravaganzas to the design of precision sonic interfaces that make medical perception in the surgery room more intuitive. Underlying this array imaginative creations is a core awareness of the relationship between gesture … Continue reading Episode #25:

Episode #24: Audiences and Indirect Gatherings

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2015/07/30

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? No it doesn’t. On this episode of Sound It Out we think about the relationship between art, artifacts and their audiences. Do audiences have to get together in person or can they exist in disparate locations … Continue reading Episode #24: Audiences and Indirect Gatherings →

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