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Guelph Reading Group: 2010 Readings

Paul Watkins. "Listening to a Listening:The Disruptive Jazz Poetics of Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries (a call towards freedom)."(Unpublished).

Excerpt from: Dionne Brand. "ossuary IV". Ossuaries. Toronto and New York: McClelland & Stewart, 2010. 39.

Charles Mingus, "Pithecanthropus Erectus" Pithecanthropus Erectus.New York, 1956. MUSIC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjFtU0zEsWc

Jared B. Burrows. "Musical Archetypes and Collective Consciousness: Cognitive Distribution and Free Improvisation". Critical Studies in Improvisation. 1:1. 2004
http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/csieci/article/view/11/35

Susan Leigh Foster. "Taken by Surprise: Improvisation in Dance and Mind." Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader. Eds. Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. 3-10.

J. Lassonde.“Thoughts on an Improvisation”. Critical Studies in Improvisation. Vol 6, No 1. 2010.
http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/csieci/article/view/1180

“Improvised Contemporary Movement and Sound,”per. J. Lassonde and J. Sobara. Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Online Research Collection.
http://www.improvcommunity.ca/research/performance-improvised-contempora...

M.Martinez. "Artist's Statement: The Improvising Eye". Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Online Research Collection.
http://www.improvcommunity.ca/sites/improvcommunity.ca/files/research_co...

"The Improvising Eye: Genesis”, dir. M.Martinez. Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Online Research Collection.
http://www.improvcommunity.ca/research/improvising-eye-genesis

M. Melford "Aural Architecture: The Confluence of Freedom" in John Zorn. Ed. Arcana: Musicians on Music. New York: Granary. 2000. 119-135

So one of the things that improvisation has come to mean in the context of highly technological performance is that improvisation is the last claim to the legitimate presence of a human in the performance of music.

– Bob Ostertag