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

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Episode #83 – The Aesthetics of Transparency:...

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2019/06/21

In the middle of February, Toronto-based artist collective Public Recordings staged a performance of Pauline Oliveros‘ score To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation at Toronto’s City Hall, in the Council Chambers. The performance concluded a week of public rehearsals in various locations around the city. Join us in this episode as … Continue reading Episode #83 – The Aesthetics of Transparency: Improvising in Toronto’s City

Episode #82: Epistemology Series – The Four Planes of...

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2018/12/18

What is the relationship between forms of social life and forms of art? In Social Aesthetics, Professor Georgina Born of Oxford University offers an analysis of the social in music and art using what she calls ‘planes of analysis.’ This is an empirical, ethnographic method of gathering data through observation, a way of finding out, rather than … Continue reading Episode #82: Epistemology Series – The Four Planes of Social Analysis with Georgina Born →

Episode #81: Improvisation as Self-Reflexive...

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2018/11/28

We often focus on the what of improvisation without questioning the who (or whom) of the practice. If we think of improvisation as judicious real-time responsiveness to a situation, we might wonder whether the image of the human implicit in that picture needs revision. In this episode, hear Dr. Edgar Landgraf discuss why we should shake off our … Continue reading Episode #81: Improvisation as Self-Reflexive Autopoesis – Edgar Landgraf on Posthumanism →

Episode #80: Takehisa Kosugi and Louise Landes Levi

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2018/11/13

Its the CFRU Raise Your Voice Funding Drive! Donate!!! You will receive merch and a chance to win fabulous prizes if you give $25 or more. While donating you will be listening to Mano-Dharma by Takehisa Kosugi’s Catch Wave and also Louise Landes Levi with Paul Labrecque and Bart De Paepe playing Colloidal Love. Sound … Continue reading Episode #80: Takehisa Kosugi and Louise Landes Levi →

Episode #79 – “The Voice is Supreme”

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2018/11/06

Is the voice like an instrument or is it the other way around? Can the voice communicate as pure sound or is it always entangled with language? How does the gendering of voice shape conventions of performance and composition in Gospel music? Chamber music? Vedic chant? Think through this stuff with #BlackComposer Darius Jones, vocal … Continue reading Episode #79 – “The Voice is Supreme” →

Episode #78 – The Mount Everest of Graphic Scores:...

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2018/10/16

Canadian jazz experimentalist François Houle attempts to mount Cornelius Cardew’s 193-page series of symbols and images using solo clarinet, myriad electronics, and a series of loopers. In this world premier recorded at the IICSI House in September 2018, Houle presents an improvised dreamscape of sounds – nightmarish at times – reflecting his live-time compositional decision-making … Continue reading Episode #78 – The Mount Everest of Graphic Scores: François Houle on

Episode #77 – The Paradox of Silence on the Po River...

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2018/10/03

‘In music, silence is more important than sound,’ says Miles Davis. In April 2018, a multi-disciplinary gathering of musicians, dancers, philosophers, and designers convened in Italy’s Po River Delta to listen to the river in preparation for a performance at the UNESCO International Jazz Day in Padova. Join us in this reflection on silence and its surprises. Sound It … Continue reading Episode #77 – The Paradox of Silence on the Po River Delta →

Episode #76 – Fin de Fiesta Flamenco

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2018/09/25

This short episode of Sound It Out puts improvisation in Flamenco music into the spotlight through a discussion with Fin de Fiesta dancer Lia Grainger. Sound It Out airs on CFRU in Guelph on Tuesdays at 5pm. New episodes usually appear on a fortnightly basis. Sound It Out is produced and hosted by Rachel Elliott in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical … Continue reading Episode #76 – Fin de Fiesta Flamenco →

Episode #75 – Epistemology Series – Contingency and...

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2018/05/08

Improvisation can become invisible since it is such a big part of everyday life. In this episode, graduate student Dan DiPiero presents the thesis that social and musical improvisation share a common structure, which is an engagement with contingency. Sound It Out airs on CFRU in Guelph on Tuesdays at 5pm. New episodes usually appear on a fortnightly … Continue reading Episode #75 – Epistemology Series – Contingency and Everyday Improvisation →

Episode #74 – d’bi.young anitafrika “We Tellin’...

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2018/04/10

We know that the personal is political, but do we consider the extent to which the political is also personal? In this rich and lively archived conversation between Paul Watkins and queer Black Canadian dub poet d’bi.young anitafrika (August 2013), hear an animated testament to the necessity for multi-directional critique – looking at the … Continue reading Episode #74 – d’bi.young anitafrika “We Tellin’ Stories Yo” (archive conversation) →

Episode #73 – Mostly Music: Experimental Women

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2018/03/14

In celebration of International Women’s Day, this episode of Sound It Out features songs by women from around the world who make music of an experimental sort. While most of the tracks you will hear are soothing and listenable, there are also a few selections that provide an ‘ear cleaning’ treatment, to use R. Murray … Continue reading Episode #73 – Mostly Music: Experimental Women →

Episode #72 – The Idea of North and Experimental...

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2018/02/27

“How does the “idea of north” trope relate to Canadian experimental music today?” In this fascinating talk, Professor Ellen Waterman describes, analyzes, and questions “the symbiotic relationship between public funding and artistic programming and content.” Waterman’s engaging and authoritative style is an enormously welcome way of digesting a wealth of historical and contemporary references, audio samples, … Continue reading Episode #72 – The Idea of North and

Episode #71 – Mostly Music: A Survey of Black Women...

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2018/02/13

In this mostly music version of Sound It Out, you will stroll with me through time and space, including outer space, and meet some of the most groundbreaking musicians of the 20th Century and beyond. From Eleanor Collins, whose eponymous TV series on CBC predated Nat King Cole by a year to make her the first black … Continue reading Episode #71 – Mostly Music: A Survey of Black Women in Canadian Music →

Episode #70 – Epistemology Series: Real-Time Analysis

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2018/01/23

How can we know the improvisatory if it only happens one time? In this episode we consider the possibility of knowing a temporal process from the inside, while it is happening. Is it possible to be in the middle of an event unfolding in time and still perform ‘analytical acts’? Or do we need to … Continue reading Episode #70 – Epistemology Series: Real-Time Analysis →

Episode #69 – Epistemology Series: What is...

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2018/01/09

How do we know improvisation? Do we need to define it before we can research it? Or are the characteristics, causes, and effects of improvisation only knowable through that research itself? This episode is the first in a series on epistemological issues surrounding improvisation studies. Definitions of improvisation are presented, and debate over the merits … Continue reading Episode #69 – Epistemology Series: What is Improvisation? →

Episode # 68 – Peter Brötzmann talks with Mack Furlong

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2017/12/05

Peter Brötzmann is a German Free Jazz saxophonist who has been a key figure in the development of the Free Jazz movement. Hear him in a conversation with animated Newfoundland personality Mack Furlong, recorded live at the Guelph Jazz Festival in September 2017. You will finish this episode with a renewed vision of improvisation’s social … Continue reading Episode # 68 – Peter Brötzmann talks with Mack Furlong →

Episode # 67 – Historicizing Criminal Insanity:...

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2017/10/17

‘History is written by the victor, but in this case history is written by the doctor.’ For the album Audible Songs from Rockwood, the songwriter and performer Simone Schmidt dug into the archival records of the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane, operative between 1856 and 1881. What Schmidt came out with are eleven compelling audible … Continue reading Episode # 67 – Historicizing Criminal Insanity: Simone Schmidt →

Episode #66 – Puffins and Piano: Florian Hoefner’s...

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2017/09/26

German-born Newfoundlander Florian Hoefner plays the piano like a puffin diving into the Atlantic. Or at least he can. He can also tell a wordless tale about the extinct Great Auk, a drifting iceberg, or even the motion of the surging ocean itself. On this episode, hear Florian Hoefner talk about his experience composing a series … Continue reading Episode #66 – Puffins and Piano: Florian Hoefner’s Kinaesthetic Storytelling →

Episode #65 – Jazz Fest Fever

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2017/09/12

The Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium gets underway on Wednesday September 13! Listen to this episode of Sound It Out to hear music from some of the intriguing performers scheduled to descend onto Guelph this week. Hear the sounds of Bernice, Bass Drum Bone, Animatist, Matthew Shipp, Barnyard Drama, Pierre Kwenders, and Eucalyptus, as well … Continue reading Episode #65 – Jazz Fest Fever →

Episode #64 – Howling with the Wolves: The Culture of...

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2017/08/22

The paradox in human relationship to wilderness is that despite being understood as a region untouched by human activity, we seek to experience this wilderness at close range. Our quests for wilderness always begin with a human idea about what wilderness is – in cultural signifiers of wilderness. One of the most prominent of these … Continue reading Episode #64 – Howling with the Wolves: The Culture of Nature →

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