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WORKSHOP: Burnt Sugar, on conduction technique
This session offers an insight and an intimate understanding of Burnt Sugar's secret weapon – its use of Lawrence 'Butch' Morris' patented 'Conduction' method for improvising ensembles. This cunning language of 26 hand signals and baton cues provides an incisive means for spontaneous and complex orchestration of improvised music in real time. Working along side Burnt Sugar Conductor Greg Tate and other Burnt Sugar musicians, workshop attendees will learn and practice the nuances of the technique and glean how it can be applied to their own musical situations.
FREE, Friday, March 28, 3 pm • MacKinnon 107, University of Guelph
Burnt Sugar The session is open to amateurs and professionals alike, hailing from any musical genre – from polka to electronica,from baroque to punk, from bebop to death metal. All instruments are welcome as well – from turntables,laptops and guitars to percussion, strings,vocals and brass. We ask only that players bring an open mind,big ears, and a desire to break outside of their own musical comfort zones.
Colloquium Keynote: Linda and Michael Hutcheon
Linda Hutcheon is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and one of the world's most important theorists of contemporary culture. Michael Hutcheon is an author, Professor of Medicine, and Deputy Physician in Chief for Education at the Toronto Health Network. Together, this husband and wife duo have published numerous articles and three books at the intersection of medical and cultural history including 2004's Opera: The Art of Dying. Their keynote address is entitled, "Jazz/Opera and the Staging of Race".
Thursday, Sept. 4,3:45 - 4:45 pm
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Free)
