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WORKSHOP: Burnt Sugar, on conduction technique
This session offers an insight and an intimate understanding of Burnt Sugar's secret weapon – its use of Lawrence 'Butch' Morris' patented 'Conduction' method for improvising ensembles. This cunning language of 26 hand signals and baton cues provides an incisive means for spontaneous and complex orchestration of improvised music in real time. Working along side Burnt Sugar Conductor Greg Tate and other Burnt Sugar musicians, workshop attendees will learn and practice the nuances of the technique and glean how it can be applied to their own musical situations.
FREE, Friday, March 28, 3 pm • MacKinnon 107, University of Guelph
Burnt Sugar The session is open to amateurs and professionals alike, hailing from any musical genre – from polka to electronica,from baroque to punk, from bebop to death metal. All instruments are welcome as well – from turntables,laptops and guitars to percussion, strings,vocals and brass. We ask only that players bring an open mind,big ears, and a desire to break outside of their own musical comfort zones.
John Zorn’s The Dreamers
The Dreamers is a new suite by the ever-prolific composer for a band with the same personnel as Electric Masada. Here, John Zorn unabashedly mines a feeling of nostalgia, as the ensemble explores material that draws on surf music, organ-trio jazz, film music, and psychedelia, with Marc Ribot’s inimitable guitar playing nearly always at the centre of the music-making.
