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The 6th Annual Creative Music Festival and Colloquium, School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph, March 6th-10th, 2012.

The 6th Annual Creative Music Festival and Colloquium, School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph, March 6th-10th, 2012.

The five day annual event presented by the Music Students’ Association and Music Department faculty showcases student performances, presentations, interdisciplinary forums, keynote speakers, guest artists and more. This year’s invited Keynote Guest Scholar is Dr. Mark Katz (University of North Carolina, author of Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip Hop DJ. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Guest Performer/Scholar: Robert Gluck (University of Albany, Interactive Electronics, Electroacoustic, and Jazz).

On Wednesday March 7th, Dr. Mark Katz/ICASP and Friends present a FREE turntable performance at 7 pm at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. The performance will feature a multimedia turntable performance from ICASP Graduate Researcher Paul Watkins, Postdoctoral Fellow Mark Campbell, and SOFAM student and turntablist, Mark Onderwater. Dr. Mark Katz will be hosting the event.

See the full colloquium schedule:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/music/colloquium

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