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Seventh Festival-Conference: “Crosscultural Improvisation III” The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music JUNE 5-8, 2014 13th Street Building - 55 W 13th Street New York, NY 10011 12th Street Building - 66 W 12th Street New York, NY 10011
11th Street Building – 65 W 11th Street New York, NY 10011
SCHEDULE LEGEND: ACADEMIC PAPER [*], PERFORMANCE [+], PRESENTATION [**], WORKSHOP-WORKSHOP/PERFORMANCE [++], PANEL [PNL]
THURSDAY JUNE 5 WOLLMAN HALL — 65 W 11TH STREET 7:00pm: OPENING CEREMONY AND RECEPTION
FRIDAY JUNE 6 13TH STREET BUILDING — 55 W 13TH STREET 5TH FLOOR PERFORMANCE HALL: 9:00-10:00am: 10:00-11:00am: Cassino – Brunel Duo (Peter Cassino and Todd Brunel) [+] 11:30am-1:00pm: Crosscultural Improvisation Workshop part I with Jin Hi Kim [**] 2:00-3:00pm: Improvisation: The Common Denominator of Not-knowing (Jim Oshinsky) [**] 3:00-4:00pm: Jacob’s Ladder (Matt Endahl Ensemble) [+] 4:00-5:00pm: One World Flutes (Ellen Burr) [+] 5:00-6:00pm: Moment to Moment: Free Improvisation by The Improv. Collective (David Rudge and the Improv Collective from SUNY Fredonia) [+] 6TH FLOOR RM. 624: 9:00-9:30am: You Know It When You Hear It: Computational Models of Jazz Improvisation (Cody Kommers) [*] 9:30-10:00am: Improvisation as Compositional Process in Thai Traditional Music (Alexis Olsen) [*] 10:00-10:30am: Intercultural Improvisation; Or, The Challenge of Omni-Musicality (Alex Rodriguez) [*] 10:30-11:00am: Improvisation and Contemplative Practice (Mark Miller) [*] 11:00-11:30am: “Touch Releasing Things Into Motion”: The Solo Violin Improvisations of Malcolm Goldstein (Jay Arms) [*] 2:00-2:30pm: The Beat Between the Cracks: New Orleans Rhythms All Over the Map (Ben Doleac) [*] 2:30-3:00pm: Improvisation 2.0: interbeing and the abstract machine (Dr. Robert Vincs) [*] 3:00-3:30pm: Entangled: An Eco-Ontology of Improvisation (David Borgo) [*] 3:30-4:00pm: Sinhala Folk Music: Its Vocal Traditions and Stylistic Nuances (Nilusha Dassenaike) [**] 4:00-4:30pm: Improvisation in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: An Alternative Teaching Model (Evan Rapport) [**] 4:30-5:00pm: “Towards a System for Human/Computer Duo Improvisations” (Jeff Albert) [**] 5:00-5:30pm: Improvised Music and the Myth of the Symmetrical Diminished Scale: Playing What You Hear (Roland Davis) [**] 5:30-6:00pm: Why We Improvise: An Interactive Presentation (Dr. Tom Zlabinger) [**] 6TH FLOOR RM. 618 9:00-10:00am: InterPlay and Improvisation: A Global Social Movement Fostering Ease and Connections (Mary L. Cohen, Ph.D.; Matthew A. Cohen, Ph.D.) [++] 10:00am-11:00am: Learning World Music through Fun and Engaging Improvisational Play! For Elementary and Secondary Music Educators (Mary Knysh Rhythmic Connections) [++] 2:00-3:00pm: “Crosscurrents” for solo piano (Chris C. Capizzi) [+] 3:00-4:00pm: Teaching the Eye to Hear: Carvings in Mid-Air, in Real-Time (Glen Whitehead, Christopher Bakridges) [+]
4:00-5:00pm: New School Administrative Session 5:00-6:00pm: Full Moon Music: Improvisations for Solo Piano (Armen Donelian) [+] 6TH FLOOR RM. 613 9:00-10:00am: Creating Frameworks for Cross Cultural Improvisation with The Afro-Semitic Experience (David Chevan) [++] 10:00-11:00am: SpiritArts: Improvising with Soul Language (Lynn Miller) [++] 2:00-3:00pm: The Mark Stone Trio (Mark Stone, Alan Grubner, Dan Piccolo) [+] 3:00-4:00pm: Eric Edberg (cello) & George Wolfe (saxophone) 4:00-5:00pm: Wadada Leo Smith (Dwight Andrews) [**] 5:00-6:00pm: Contained Performances within the Sonic Spaces Project (Michael Musick) [+] 6TH FLOOR RM. 645 9:00-9:30am: Sam Morrison: Composition of Indeterminate and Improvisational Music as a Study in Shared Creative Control [*] 9:30-10:00am: The rise of computer recording and “prosumer” electronics (Brandon Vaccaro) [*] 10:00-11:00pm: Jen Baker / Dafna Naphtali Duo (Jen Baker and Dafna Naphtali) [+] 2:00-3:00pm: Payton MacDonald: The development of the textures, sounds, and compositional approaches of my “Super Marimba project” [+] 3:00-4:00pm: Eris 136199 — Han-Earl Park/Nick Didkovsky/Catherine Sikora. [+] 4:00-5:00pm: Murmuration (Russell Kotcher, Eric Coyne, Andrew Marsh) 5:00-6:00pm: A Small Dream in Red presents “In the language of Dreams” (Nora McCarthy and Jorge Sylvester) [+] 11th Street building, Wollman Hall — 65 W 11TH SREET 10:00-11:00am: Karl Berger’s Improvisation Orchestra [+] 11:00am-12:00pm: TranceFormation [+] 2:00-3:30pm: “Women in Improvised Music” discussion panel, led by Kate Olson [PNL] 4:00-5:00pm: Siberian Improv Duo (Roman Stoylar and Vladimir Luchansky) [+] 5:00-6:00pm: Bill Crossman Solo Piano/”John Brown’s Truth” (“Improvised Musical’) [+]
HEADLINE EVENT: 12TH STREET BUILDING, URBAN AUDITORIUM — 66 W 12TH STREET 7:30pm: CONCERT: MAT MANERI AND TANYA KALMANOVITCH 8:30pm: CONCERT: THE REGGIE WORKMAN ENSEMBLE
SATURDAY JUNE 7 13TH STREET BUILDING 2ND FLOOR LANG CENTER 11:00-12:00pm: Momentary Quartet (Jane Buttars, Lin Folk, Harold McKinney, Patrick Whitehead) [+] 12:00pm-1:00pm: Susie Allen and “Ring Storm” [+] 2:00-3:30pm: “Improvisation and Musical Study in a Crosscultural Age” panelists: Darryl Harper, Martin Mueller, Betty Anne Younker, Wouter Turkenburg, Jin Hi Kim, Richard Kessler, and Ed Sarath. [PNL] 3:30-5:00pm: "The Shape of Creativity to Come in the 21st-Century," panelists: Karlton Hester, Bill Johnson, Douglas Ewart and India Cooke. [PNL] 5:00-6:00pm: Gianni Mimmo and Alison Blount Duo [+] 5TH FLOOR PERFORMANCE HALL 9:00-10:00am: Brad Linde and Erika Dohi [+] 10:00-11:00am: Beyond the Music: An Interview With Dave Liebman 11:30-1:00pm: Crosscultural Improvisation Workshop Part II with Jin Hi Kim [++] 2:00-3:00pm: “The Language of Improvisation” – Dom Minasi and Michael Jefry Stevens [+] 3:00-4:00pm: “KILAR”, Kuba Stankiewicz Plays the Music of Wojciech Kilar [+] 5:00-6:00pm: Chris Stover’s “Sound Simpingments” [+] RM. 624 9:30-10:00am: Shubha Deep, “National and International Issue-Based Songs” 10:00-11:00am: Maqam substitutions: Arabic Jazz by Rami Gabriel and Rob Wallace [+]
11:00-12:00pm: FreePlay (Stephen Nachmanovitch) [**] 12:00-1:00pm: Hearing Teen Tal with a Western Ear — How Counting in Sixteen Differs from Four-Four Times Four (Rich Robeson and Deepak Shenoy) [++] 3:00-4:00pm: Concept Improvisation (Chris Chalfant) [++] 4:00-4:30pm: John's Cage 10.82: "Why 4 33?" - Improvisational Constructions for Classically-Minded Musicians (Tim Tsang) [**] 5:00-6:00pm: The Chapman Stick: a High-Speed Idea Conduit for Improvisers (Greg Howard) [+] RM. 618 10:00-11:00am: IAMABAUDE (Alex Koi) [+] 11:00-12:00pm: Gloom in the Womb (Betsy Soukup and Ben Willis) [+] 12:00-1:00pm: The Carey-Poulsen Duo (Kirsten Carey and Morten Poulsen [+] 3:00-4:00pm: Adaptive Improvising -The Original Voice vs. Space and the Random Piano, or… Playing On Bad Instruments Out of Doors Can Be Fun! (Randy Klein) [++] 4:00-5:00pm: Collaborative Imperatives at the Limits of the Jazz World: Afro/Canarian Improvisation and the Ethics of Performative Research (Mark Lomanno) [+] 5:00-6:00pm: Maja Radovanlija/ImprovIsAndDo Ensemble [+] RM. 613 10:00-11:00am: Reciprocal Uncles (Gianni Mimmo, Gianni Lenoci, Cristiano Calcagnile) [+] 2:00-3:00pm: Rhythmic Conversations: Parallels and Possibilities at the Intersection of Carnatic Music and Jazz (Rory Stuart and Rajna Swaminathan) [++] 5:00-6:00pm: Past, Present, and Future: Revisiting the music of Carla Bley (Robert Gluck) [+] RM. 645 10:00-11:00am: Modern Guqin Improvisation In Solo and In Intercultural Duets (Jeff Roberts) [+] 11:00-12:00pm: Syrinx Effect (Kate Olson) [+] 12:00-1:00pm: TpT-TpT (Jeff Kaiser and Dave Ballou) [+] 2:00-3:00pm: Improvisations 2014, Michael Wittgraf & Lynn Baker [+] 3:30-4:30pm: Sonic Constructions (Thomas Cuifo and Curtis Bahn) [+] 5:00-6:00pm: FreeK: the University of Kentucky Free Improvisation Ensemble [+]
HEADLINE EVENT: 12TH STREET URBAN AUDITORIUM 7:30pm CONCERT: CROSSCULTURAL IMPROVISATION III “Contrasting Conceptions of Time” Featuring guest artists Wadada Leo Smith, Gamin, Samir Chatterjee, Bobby Previte, and David Liebman. Jin Hi Kim, Artistic Director
SUNDAY JUNE 8 13TH STREET BUILDING 5TH FLOOR PERFORMANCE HALL 10:00-11:00am: Expansion (Fabien Sevilla) [+] 11:00-12:00pm: Raphael Sudan: Improvisations in Classical Styles [+] 12:00-1:00pm: Simone Weißenfels – mspiano, solo piano performance [+] RM. 624 10:00-11:00am: Composers are Choreographers are Composers (Mark Olivieri and Dr. Donna Davenport) [++] 11:00-12:00pm: Ji Eun Moon’s “Ghost Theater” [+] 12:00-1:00pm: Andrew Bishop and Jacob Sacks Duo [+] RM. 618 10:00-11:00am: N/A 11:00-12:00pm: Improvise with an Improvising Body (Corinna Eikmeier) [++] 12:00-1:00pm: Richard Boukas and Quarteto Moderno, “Contemporary Brazilian Jazz Composition and Improvisation” [+] RM. 613 10:00-11:00am: “Live Composing” by Robert Jedrzejewski [+] 11:00-12:00pm: Let Us Play to Remember Who We Are (Joelle Danant) [++]
12:00-1:00pm: SonicExchange: Film and Talk about a 100-day Residency (Ursel Schlicht) [+] RM. 645 10:00-11:00am: Tina Chancey, “Improvisation, Early Music and Early Film: Expanding the Practice” [**] 11:00-12:00pm: “RR” Duo (Rui Li and Raleigh Dailey) [+] 12:00-1:00pm: Kathryn Ladano “Solo Free Improvisation for Bass Clarinet” [+] 1:00pm: CLOSING CEREMONY 12TH STREET BUILDING, 5TH FLOOR PERFORMANCE HALL