The Art of Listening: An Interview with Peter Hatch on the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound

VIDEO: ICASP student researcher Sandro Manzon conducts an interview with Peter Hatch discussing the Open Ears Festival in Kitchener, Ontario.

The ArtsCan Circle: Using Arts and Improvisation in the Classroom

The ArtsCan Circle, founded by harmonica player Mike Stevens, is an independent, volunteer-run organization that links at-risk Native youth with the...

The Bitter but Beautiful Struggle: Improvisation and Imagination in New Orleans

This article articulates how the art of improvisation has shaped the contours of Black culture in New Orleans, and the way it continues to be used to...

The Challenge of the Changing Same: The Jazz Avant-Garde of the 1960s, the Black Aesthetic and the Black Arts Movement

This essay focuses on the relationship between writers associated with the Black Arts Movement in the United States and the experimental directions...

The Control of Acoustic Intensity During Jazz and Free Improvisation Performance: Possible Transcultural Implications for Social Discourse and Community

This paper demonstrates the predominance of a pattern of acoustic intensity change in recorded improvisations. A wide range of Western music is...

The Creative Life of Law: Improvisation, Between Tradition and Suspicion

Originally applying solely to chefs, waiters, dishwashers and the like, New York City regulations governing cabaret employees were altered in 1943 to...

The Improvisation Reading Group: Decentralized Dance Party Manifesto: "Boomboxes, Anarchy, and the Commons"

Dr. Michael MacDonald presents the Decentralized Dance Party to the Improvisation Reading Group. Dr. MacDonald discusses urban space, aesthetics, the...

The Improvisation Toolkit Resource List

List of external resources relevant to the Improvisation Toolkit. Includes sources on Games, School and University Classes, Special Needs, At-risk...

The Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Project: Some Thoughts on Outreach, Partnership, and Policy

ARTICLE: This talk, given at the Canadian New Music Network Forum in Halifax in January 2010, gives an overview of the scope, context, and research...

The improvisational creativity of expert teachers

Exploring teaching as performance, teacher expertise, and creativity in teaching, this article compares jazz performance and improvisational theater...