Enter the studio of cellist Jacob Cohen as he builds an electric cello from a horseshoe crab exoskeleton and brings it to life in a performance with drummer, kora player, and vocalist Ismaila Diarra.
How do musicians, composers, and audiences use graphic scores to re-imagine their roles?
From urban exploration to Olympic sport. Episode 7 explores Skateboarding as improvised movement connected with ideas of community and social justice.
Learn about musical events that used existing knowledge about improvisation to reimagine collaborative music-making in a time of social distancing.
This podcast features elements of improvisation in daily life for a first-generation immigrant to Canada. Featuring TV producer, Amit Tandon.
This podcast tracks how a second line band saved Christmas in Guelph, Ontario.
This podcast shines a light on community art projects that model improvisatory practices’ impact on equity struggles. Featuring George Lipsitz.
The inaugural episode of this improvisation podcast reflects on the tensions and dynamics of defining the elusive nature of improvisation in daily life.
Jump to French In the summer of 2016, the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), with support from the Musagetes Foundation and the Chawkers Foundation, mounted the inaugural
Deep Listening at the End of the World[1] I’m sitting beside the ocean at the end of the world singing with a wave. A rhythmic low whoosh, and a building
A review of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Co-creation (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice) by Daniel Fischlin, Ajay Heble, and George Lipsitz. 2014. ISBN: 0822354780.
The following text is excerpted from Lê Quan Ninh’s book, Improvising Freely: The ABCs of an Experience, translated from the French by Karen Houle with assistance from Pegleess Barrios & Melissa
