2011 Season
Colloquium Full Schedule
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7
9:00 Introductory Remarks and Welcome
Panel 1 (plenary): 9:15-10:30 WRITING JAZZ
Cecil Foster (Sociology and Anthroplogy, University of Guelph)
Paul Watkins (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph)
Panel 2A: 10:45-noon PEDAGOGIES, MEDIA, AND IMPROVISATION
Patrick Boyle (Jazz Studies, University of Victoria) - Finding Problems Together: Silent Films and Big Bands
Andrea Kuzmich (Ethnomusicology, York U.) - Scoring Vocal Variability and Empowering the Singer with Choices
Panel 2B: 10:45-noon DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERACTIVITY: IMPROVISING MACHINES, IMPROVISATIONAL SOFTWARE, AND SAMPLING
Eric Lewis (Philosophy, McGill U.) - What can machines tell us about improvising? The case of Voyager.
Michael Pelz Sherman (North Carolina) - Agile Jazz and Improvisational Software Development
Lunch: noon-1:30
Panel 3A: 1:30-2:45 RECORDING TECHNOLOGIES AND RECEPTION
Michael T. Spencer (American Studies, Michigan State U.) - Jazzing the Interior: Hi-Fi, FM, and the Reception of Jazz in the Post-WWII California Domestic Sphere
Alan Stanbridge (Visual and Performing Arts, U. Toronto) - Gone, in the Air? Improvisation and the Paradox of Sound Recording
Panel 3B: 1:30-2:45 AURAL AND VISUAL CONFLUENCES (PART ONE)
Alain Derbez (Mexico) - Jazz and Love and Art: Who is Jazzamoart?
Rob Jackson (School of English and Theatre Studies, U. Guelph) - ”Exposures to Infinity”: Examining Rovert Frank’s “The Americans”
Sara Villa (Centre de recherche en éthique, Université de Montréal) - Intertwined Confessional Narratives: The Representation of Improvised Jazz Solos in Jack Kerouac’s Major Novels
Panel 4A: 3:00-4:15 FOUR FACES OF CONTACT IMPROVISATION
John Faichney (Sociology, U. Waterloo) - On the Availability of Contact Improvisation to Onlookers
Tanya Williams (Fall on Your Feet Dance Studio) - On Shifting Centre of Gravity in My Body and Thought
Adam Euerby (Systems Design Engineering, U. Waterloo) - Contact Improvisation: Breaking Three Myths of Collaborative Partnerships
Sarah Tolmie (English, U. Waterloo) - Finding Your Other Half: Contact Improvisation as Extension of the Body Schema
Panel 4B: 3:00-4:15 REPRESENTATION, MYTH, AND POWER
David Lee (School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph) - Status Transactions, Power, and Performance in Improvised Music
Lisa Williams (American Studies, Michigan Staet University) - The Story of St. Bix: Myth, Cultural Meaning, and the Improvisation of a Jazz Legend
Mark Laver (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice, University of Guelph) - Autoeroticism: Chryslers, Cyborgs, and the Look of Love
Workshop 1: 4:15-5:00 CONTACT ENACTION: A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION OF CONTACT IMPROVISATION
John Faichney, Tanya Williams, Adam Euerby, Sarah Tolmie
Performance: THE RENT
Thursday September 8
Panel 5A: 9:15-10:45 WORDS AND MUSIC: POWERING UP (PART ONE)
Olabanji Akinola (Political Science and International Development, U. Guelph) and Ogunbowale Mopelolade (History and International Development, U. Guelph) - The Role of Musical Improvisation in Social Advocacy: Whither Nigeria?
Barry Long (Music, Bucknell U.) - ”The Black Blower of the Now”: Coltrane, King, and Rhetorical Change
Tegan Ceschi-Smith (Music Education, U. British Columbia) - Fables of Faubus: Charles Mingus and the Carnegie Center Jazz Band: Protesting Violence and Inequality
Panel 5B: 9:15-10:45 IMPROVISING COMMUNITIES: TELEMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY
Michael Kaler (Music, York U.) - Representing Musical Communities: The Presentation of Group Improvisational Music in A Joyful Noise and The Grateful Dead Movie
Jeff Albert (Experimental Music and Digital Media, Louisiana State U.) - Improvisation as Tool and Intention: Organizational Practices in Laptop Orchestras and Their Effect on Personal Music Approaches
Jason Robinson (Music, Amherst College) - Improvising Latencies: Telematics, Improvisation, and the Paradoxes of Synchronicity
Workshop 2: 11:00 MIRAR EL RUIDO (TO SEE THE NOISE)
Alain Derbez, Jazzamoart, Nicolas Caloia, jean Derome, Isaiah Ceccarelli, and Guillaume Dostaler
Lunch: noon-1:00
Workshop 3: 1:00-2:00 STEVE LACY’S “TIPS” IN DANCE AND MUSIC
Susanna Hood, Scott Thomson, Alanna Kraaijeveld, Kyle Brenders
Panel 6A: 2:15-3:30 WORDS AND MUSIC: POWERING UP (PART TWO)
Carol Ann Weaver (Music, U. Waterloo) - ”I Improvise Therefore I Am” – Story Telling as Improvisatory Music Making in South Africa Today
Jack Wright (Spring Garden Music) - Resurgence and Challenge 1997-2011: Free Improvisation from a Player’s Perspective
François Houle (Vancouver Community College School of Music) - Cork Room: On Memory, Sampling, and Poetic Restructuralist Aspects in Live Performance
Panel 6B: 2:15-3:30 AURAL/VISUAL CONFLUENCES (PART TWO)
Marcel Swiboda (Cultural Studies, U. Leeds, UK) - Transversal Technics Between Improvisation and Theory: Interstitial and Intermedial Extemporary Encounters
Kevin McNeilly (English, U. British Columbia) - Pierre Hebert, Scratching Dissent
Paul Watkins and Nicholas Loess (School of English and Theatre Studies, U. Guelph) - Spatial Stories, Sampled Memories, and Intermedial Improvisations
Keynote: 3:45-5:00 “MEETING OVER YONDER”: PARKER, BARAKA, MAYFIELD
Aldon Nielsen (Department of English, Pennsylvania State U.
Friday September 9
Keynote: 9:15-10:30 FIND YOUR OWN VOICE AND USE IT
Jayne Cortez (Poet; President, Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc.)
Presentation: 10:45-11:15 MUSIC THERAPY VIA REMOTE VIDEO TECHNOLOGY: A CASE REVIEW
Aaron Lightstone (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)
Poetry Reading with Improvised Musical Accompaniment: 11:30-noon
Kevin McNeilly
Eric Lewis (trumpet)
Lunch: noon-1:00
Workshop 4: 1:00-2:15 PASSAGES: THE NORTH BY NORTHWEST SERIES
Alexandre Pierrepont (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Université de Paris VII / Sciences Po, France), Didier Petit (France), Marianne Trudel (Quebec), and Gerry Hemingway (Hochshule Luzern, Switzerland)
Onstage Interview: 2:45-3:30 WITH HENRY THREADGILL
Interviewed by Daniel Fischlin (School of English and Theatre Studies, U. Guelph)
Performance: 5:00 MARIANNE TRUDEL SEPTET
This colloquium is generously sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation, the Chawkers Foundation, the SOCAN Foundation, Canadian Heritage/Patrimoine canadien, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Universidad Veracruzana, the Office of the President, the Office of the Vice-President (Research), the Office of the Associate Vice-President (Student Affairs), the School of English and Theatre Studies, the School of Fine Art and Music, the School of Languages and Literatures, and the Central Student Association at the University of Guelph.
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