Improvising At The Edge

This week we return from our July hiatus with some exciting audio from the northeastern edge of North America – St. Johns, NL, Canada. While we were gone, we embraced stormy skies, sea-going improvisational instruments, the smell of cod tongue dinners and severe jet lag to tell the tale, and tell the tale we do! This week we meet up with improviser and scholar Ellen Waterman to discuss the colloquium “Improvisation as Intercultural Contact and Dialogue,” listen to ships near and far making music together, and get into the nitty-gritty of what the heck we mean by improvisation anyway… Sound Symposium: http://www.soundsymposium.com/ International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation: http://improvisationinstitute.ca Field Recordings: Introduction North Atlantic thunderstorm on Fogo Island – Steven Roswell, Radio Aporee https://aporee.org/maps Opening: Harbor Symphony, recorded by Renee T. Coulombe July 10, 2016, St. Johns, NL. During introduction: Field recording made in small Café, downtown St. John’s by Renee T. Coulombe, July 5, 2016. Musical Examples: 1x2x3=Nem!* for improvising pianist, drummer, and Gamelan Orchestra with live electronic processing by Renee T. Coulombe. Performed by the UCR Gamelan Orchestra, June 8, 2007. Badal’s Bayan with Badal Roy, tablas, Walter Gershon, saxophone and Renee T. Coulombe, piano. Interview guest: Ellen Waterman: http://www.mun.ca/music/people/faculty/ewaterman.php and folks we mentioned: Ajay Heble: https://www.uoguelph.ca/sets/sets-ajay-heble Jason Stanyek: http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/about/people/academic-staff/university-lecturers-and-college-fellows/jason-stanyek/ Keynote Address title: “Bossa Nova and the Intercultural Imagination: On the Critical Demographies of Improvisation” Deborah Wong: https://music.ucr.edu/faculty/wong/ Keynote Address title: “Alliances, Coalitions, Partnerships, and Pacts: From Interzones to Solidarities” Dhiren Panikker (University of California, Riverside): “Browntopia: Interminority Coalition Building in Post-9/11 Jazz and Improvised Music” Pauline Oliveros: http://paulineoliveros.us/ AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Creative_Musicians Improvised Alchemy: improvisedalchemy.com George Lewis: http://music.columbia.edu/people/bios/user/glewis Dylan Robinson: http://www.queensu.ca/llcu/people/faculty/dylan-robinson Linda M. Ippolito: https://www.collaborativepracticetoronto.com/professionals/lindamippolito/ Sara Ramshaw: https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/law/staff/ramshaw/ Judith Butler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler