Full Schedule
Friday, Day 3
Colloquium Day 3
KEYNOTE
Deborah Wong (UC, Riverside) – Improvisation in American Taiko
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Keynote
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 9 - 10am
SAFA (B.C.)
The members of SAFA, deeply inspired by the passion and beauty of ancient Persian musical traditions, create their own contemporary music that touches on material from the range of their varied musical lives.
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 10:15am
Colloquium Day 3
PANEL: "Play What You Are: Improvisation and Affirmation"
Greg Tate (New York) – The Black Rock Coalition
Matana Roberts (New York) – Creativity and Improvisation
Jeremy Brown (U. Calgary) – Salvation Army Addiction Rehabilitation Project
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Panel
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
Colloquium Day 3
WORKSHOP: "Induction, Deduction, Conduction: Approaches to Structured Improvisation"
Greg Tate (host), Lewis “Flip” Barnes Jr., Paula Henderson, Jared Michael Nickerson, Stephen Lyons, JP Carter, Jesse Zubot, Hidayat Honari, Gordon Grdina, Neelamjit Dhillon, Hamin Honari, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Han Bennink, Wolter Wierbos, Mary Oliver, Michael Moore.
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Workshop
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 1 - 2pm
Colloquium Day 3
PANEL: "Transdiasporic Collaborations in the African Diaspora"
Karl Evangelista (Mills College) – The Blue Notes: Free Music and Exile in the Apartheid Era
Jason Squinobal (U. Pittsburgh) - Randy Weston: Preserving African Roots Through Jazz Improvisation
D Y Ngoy (Paris) - Edja Kiungali: Recapturing the African Imagination
Jason Robinson (Amherst Coll.) - Improvising the African Diaspora: Transdiasporic Collaboration and Musical Experimentalism
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Panel
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 2:15 – 3:30pm
Colloquium Day 3
WORKSHOP: "Improvisation, Interpretation, Imagination"
Jeff Reilly (host), Barry Guy, Maya Homburger
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Workshop
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 3:45 – 4:45pm
Joane Hétu’s Filature (Québec)
For Filature, Joane Hétu has surrounded herself with Ensemble SuperMusique – ten musicians, comprised half by men and half by women – along with two dancers and four stage designers whose contributions, in sound and space, embody the weavers’ materials and techniques of “warp”, “weft” and “pattern.” BUY TICKETS
- Venue:
- River Run Centre, Co-operators Hall
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- $20 / $15
- Time:
- 5:30pm
Satoko Fujii ma-do (Japan)
Pianist Sakoko Fujii’s ma-do is a brand new quartet, including her husband Natsuki tamura on trumpet, has just recorded in April 2008. We expect tremendous things from Satoko Fujii – as thoughtful, rigorous and expressive an artist as they come in contemporary music. BUY TICKETS
- Venue:
- River Run Centre, Main Stage
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- $30/$25
- Time:
- 8pm, first half of double bill
Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra (Netherlands)
With the playfully volatile and oft-contradictory duo of Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink at its core for more than 40 years, ICP is now a long-established 10-piece ensemble that features several of the most original voices in creative music. The ICP Orchestra is a radical band at the peak of its powers and brimming with outrageous (and outrageously varied) soloists. BUY TICKETS
- Venue:
- River Run Centre, Main Stage
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- $30/$25
- Time:
- 8pm, second half of double bill
Fond of Tigers (B.C.)
Fond of Tigers music is “a focused synthesis of mathy freakouts, off-kilter jazz, ambient sound sculpture, abstract improvisation, and a rare feel for making music that is both challenging and highly listenable.” BUY TICKETS
- Venue:
- Mitchell Hall, St. George’s Anglican Church
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- $20 / $15
- Time:
- 11pm
Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra
With the playfully volatile and oft-contradictory duo of Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink at its core for more than 40 years, ICP is now a long-established 10-piece ensemble that features several of the most original voices in creative music. The ICP Orchestra is a radical band at the peak of its powers and brimming with outrageous (and outrageously varied) soloists.
