Post date: Dec 01, 2015 9:3:30 PM
On Thursday, the Improvisation Section will be hosting our first annual open jam for improvisers from all stylistic backgrounds. All are welcome. Bring an instrument and get in touch with Local Scenes Liaison Dave Wilson at davewilson@ucla.edu if you have any equipment needs. The jam will be held at The Museum of Human Achievement, which is located a short distance from the Hilton Austin. Please meet in the lobby of the hotel at 7:15, and we will travel in groups via public transportation or car service. Note: there is a $5 suggested donation at the door.
On Friday, consider attending our annual meeting from 7-9pm in Room 414. This year’s meeting will include a roundtable focusing on “Improvisation and the Liberal Arts.” This open forum discussion will feature a panel including Michelle Kisliuk (University of Virginia), Mark Laver (Grinnell College), Mark Lomanno (St. John’s University), Scott Marcus (UC Santa Barbara), Tracy McMullen (Bowdoin College), Jason Robinson (Amherst College), and Gabriel Solis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
Finally, we invite you to attend the panels that we have sponsored and co-sponsored at this year’s conference:
Saturday, 9L, 8:30-10:30am
Room 619
Negotiations, Representations, and Boundary-Making in European Romani Improvisation *Co-sponsored by the Improvisation Section and the European Music Special Interest Group
Chair: Kathleen Wiens, Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix
Improvisation as Performative Practice: Politics, Sociality and Bulgarian Wedding Music Carol Silverman, University of Oregon
“These Guys Are Good, But They’re Making a Lot of Mistakes!”: Negotiating Ethnicity and Race in a Jazz and Romani Brass Band Improvisatory Collaboration Dave Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles
“Feeling” as Authority: Musical, Linguistic, and Social Improvisation among Alsatian Manouches Siv Lie, New York University
Discussant: Robert Larabee, New England Conservatory
Sunday, 12E, 10:45am-12:15pm
Room 415A
Improvising with Electronics at the Interface of Sound, Subjectivity and Significance *Sponsored by the Improvisation Section
Chair: David Borgo, University of California, San Diego
10:45 Re-Imagining Virtuosity: Conceptions and Practices in Contemporary Electro-acoustic Improvisation
Jeff Kaiser, University of San Diego
11:15 Inter-facility: Improvisation, Disability, and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument
Pete Williams, University of Kansas
11:45 The Art of Improvisation in the Age of Computational Participation
David Borgo, University of California, San Diego