ICASP Newsletter June 2011
 IMprov Notes: News of the Moment June 2011 Community Sound [E]scapes
 "I am absolutely delighted that the Canada Council for the Arts has funded this exciting new partnership between Ed Video, ICASP and the Don Snowden program. The grant will enable us to build new connections with Northern Ontario organizations, artists and residents and we look forward to working with the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Northern Chiefs Council to develop a new media sound art project which best suits their diverse communities" (Rebecca Caines, Project Facilitator).
Community Sound [e]Scapes Northern Ontario will bring together a team of emerging and established new media artists from Ed Video (http://www.edvideo.org/), and Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice in Guelph, working with our partner the Don Snowden Program (http://www.uoguelph.ca/snowden/) to collaborate with First Nations community members in Northern Ontario, in the area served by the Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) council. The team will create a new media sound and video art project based on exploring a sense of place and community. This project follows on the success of ICASP's Community Sound [e]Scapes programs working with the University of Guelph and the da Vinci high school program (Guelph area), the Ballybeen youth program (Northern Ireland) and the Woolgoolga senior bicycle group (Australia) in 2009, and the successful launch of the Community Sound [e]Scapes website and improvised sound art mixer, the eScaper, at the Guelph Jazz Festval Colloquium in 2010. (http://soundescapes.improvcommunity.ca). The artists from Guelph will work with local artists and community members in Northern Ontario on a number of workshops in audio recording and microphone use, sound editing, and sound art composition and improvisation, producing sound art pieces that reflect the unique Northern Ontario landscape and the rich culture of the KO communities. "Keewaytinook Okimakanak, or Northern Chiefs in Oji-Cree, is a non-political Chiefs Council serving Deer Lake, Fort Severn, Keewaywin, McDowell Lake, North Spirit Lake and Poplar Hill First Nations. The Council provides health, education, economic development, employment assistance, legal, public works, finance, research, clean water, cellular, administration and computer communication services." (KO website) http://www.knet.ca/
 In other news: Postdoctoral Fellow for the ICASP project (2009-2011), Dr. Rebecca Caines received a position as the Assistant Professor in Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina. It is a new interdisciplinary position bridging the strands of Music, Theatre, Media and Visual Arts. Her area of specialization will be Sound Art. Please congratulate Dr. Rebecca Caines on a position well deserved! New to the research collection: Improvising Virtual Memory Boxes: a project exploring the relationship between memory, improvisation, and technology. "Nassau St. Sessions": On April 6, 2010 the WoodChopper's Association led by Dave Clark met up with Cuban pianist Glenda Del Monte for a free improvisation intercultural collision. The Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice (ICASP), MCRI project at the University of Guelph as well as a City of Toronto INCUBATE grant supported the day-long event, which also produced an extended video interview with Dave Clark (with a short oral history of the Woodchoppers) and performance footage, all filmed by Steve Sladkowski (ICASP research associate). Ikons: sound and sculpture installation by George Lewis & Eric Metcalfe. Improv Notes was initially distributed in 2008 as a quarterly newsletter. The ICASP team is happy to announce that the newsletter is back in action and will be distributed once a month. If you have anything improvisation related that you would like to have included in the newsletter, please send an email to: icaspweb@uoguelph.ca |
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