WORKSHOP: Mirar El Ruido

VIDEO: An improvised musical and visual arts performance featuring artist Jazzamoart.

WORKSHOP: Musique Actuelle: A New Social Policy for a Distinct Society?

A musical performance by artists based across Canada followed by a discussion session and a short improvised performance.

WORKSHOP: New Communities of Sound: Improvising Across Borders

An improvised musical performance featuring musicians from around the world who are able to combine very different traditions and styles into a...

WORKSHOP: Play The Drum! Improvising With Real And Virtual Drums Across Abilities

VIDEO: A workshop featuring rhythmic performance open to the audience and to people of all abilities.

WORKSHOP: Steve Lacy's "Tips" in Dance and Music

Workshop participants both perform and discuss their experiences working with Steve Lacy's "Tips", especially detailing the work of corresponding...

VIDEO: A recording of the work shop with William Parker with the Guelph Youth Jazz Ensemble and the University of Guelph Contemporary Music Ensemble...

“A Door to Other Doors”: Henry Threadgill Interview with Daniel Fischlin

Henry Threadgill is one of the great original, iconoclastic voices in American music, and sits comfortably with other great voices from the U.S. and...

“I Dreamed of Other Worlds”: An Interview with Nicole Mitchell

Award-winning Chicago-based flutist Nicole Mitchell has made a huge mark on the international jazz and creative improvised music scenes in recent...

“I Feel My True Colors Began to Show.” Designing and Teaching a Course on Improvisation

This article discusses my design and teaching of an interdisciplinary, multi-style course "Improvisation in Music". It discusses fundamental...

“I wanted to live in that music:” Blues, Bessie Smith and Improvised Identities in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees

This paper explores the link between the improvisatory nature of blues music and resistance to socially prescribed expectations for gender and...