Improv Notes: December 2012
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 IMprov Notes: News of the Moment December 2012
Research Matters - Life in 2030
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm The Tannery, Kitchener  “Improvisation will be at the core of sustainable communities and unprecedented change." -Ajay Heble Ajay Heble, ICASP Project Director, will be part of a Research Matters panel event ("Life in 2030"), a series of free public events in five cities across Ontario, looking at “Life in 2030.” The speakers will discuss the future with those who are creating it. The ICASP project is featured on the Research Matters website, a major new campaign recently launched by the Council of Ontario Universities. Each Ontario University was asked to nominate major research projects or activities to be profiled. ICASP was chosen as the project to highlight from The University of Guelph. Yet again, the ICASP project is commended and highlighted for its ability to use improvised music to help transform people and build communities. ICASP STAFF NEWS  ICASP is pleased to announce that Rachel Shoup joins our staff team as an Administrative Assistant, starting in January 2013. Many of you will already know Rachel from her extraordinary work for the project as an undergraduate research assistant over the last several years. She now joins us as a staff member. Please join us in welcoming Rachel to our staff team.Two legends leave behind a legacy of music
Dave Brubeck, the jazz pianist, composer and bandleader behind the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet, passed away at the age 91 on December 5th 2012. The well-known jazz standard “Take Five” (composed by Paul Desmond), from Brubeck’s seminal Time Out, is the bestselling jazz single of all time. Quote of the Month: Improvisation is one of the responses to transcultural liminality in the contact zones of diasporic and transnational cultures. Through adaptation, appropriation, and sampling materials, backgrounds, and techniques, earlier repositories and the local present are combined to produce new effects and performance. -Winfried Siemerling, “Transcultural Improvisation”  Dr. Siemerling, University of Waterloo, ICASP Research Collaborator, has recently completed an edited collection entitled Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations. He has published over thirty-five articles and book chapters on cultural difference, multiculturalism, and transculturalism, on the innovative capacities of artistic production to create uncharted possibilities and new hopes, and on the nexus between social and aesthetic practices and structures. Dr. Siemerling holds a PhD and master’s in comparative literature (University of Toronto) and a master’s in English and Romance languages (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).
About ICASP  The international Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice research project explores musical improvisation as a model for social change. The project plays a leading role in defining a new field of interdisciplinary research to shape political, cultural, and ethical dialogue and action. As a form of musical practice, improvisation embodies real-time creative decision-making, risk-taking, and collaboration. Improvisation must be considered not simply as a musical form, but as a complex social phenomenon that mediates transcultural inter-artistic exchanges that produce new conceptions of identity, community, history, and the body. This project focuses primarily on jazz and creative improvised music. The dominant theoretical issues emerging from this music have vital social implications. Check out our diverse research collection. |
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