EVENTS
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
ISIM has had to further postpone its 13th festival/conference scheduled for Melbourne Australia (originally scheduled for June and then December 2020) due to the COVID pandemic. We hope to be able to gain some clarity soon about when a viable next rescheduling might be possible. Until then, we thank everyone for their patience and most of all, hope you are staying safe and healthy as the world grapples with this challenge.
Past Events
2019 ISIM Festival and Conference Schedule
All Events will be in Anderson Music Hall and Foss Center Hoversten Chapel Augsburg University
715 22nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55454
| Room | Time |
THURSDAY MAY 16, 2019 |
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| Room M22 | 3:30p |
Improvisation Experience Predicts How Musicians Categorize Musical Structures Andrew Goldman, PhD |
Paper |
| Room M22 | 4:00p |
Sound, Noise & Music: Chasing Ideas Robert Burke |
Paper |
| Room M22 | 4:30p |
Talk on Free Jazz, Harmolodics and Ornette Coleman, book by Stephen Rush Stephen Rush |
Presentation |
| Room M22 | 5:00p |
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah’s Critique of the Danziger Bridge Shootings James Gordon Williams |
Paper |
| Sateren Auditorium | 7:00p | Welcome Session | Group session |
| Sateren Auditorium | 8:00p |
Jin Hi Kim Ensemble Jin Hi Kim (komungo), Gao Hong (pipa), Pat O’Keefe (clarinet/bass clarinet), Heather Barringer (percussion), and Robert Appleton (image) |
Performance |
| Room | Time |
FRIDAY MAY 17, 2019 |
|
| Room M22 | 9:30a |
“We’ll play it first and I’ll tell you what it’s called later” – learning Classical Language Through Improvisation Ville Komppa |
Paper |
| Room M22 | 10:00a |
From Doxa to Chaos; Rescuing Improvised Music From Composition Dr. Robert Vincs |
Paper |
| Room M23 | 10:00a |
SpiritVoice: Transformation through Improvisation Lynn Miller |
Workshop |
| Sateren Auditorium | 10:00a |
New Insights Through Audience Engagement in an Innovative Improvisation Experience Komsun Dilokkunanant (French Horn), Alice Chang (piano), and Mimie Vararom Tavivoradil (movement artist) |
Performance |
| Room M16 | 10:30a |
Project After Life Boja Kragulj, (composer, clarinet, interactive-technology programming) and Misha Penton (soprano, fixed media contributions) |
Performance |
| Room M2 | 10:30a |
Bio-guided Music Therapy Workshop Dr. Eric Miller |
Workshop |
| Room M22 | 11:00a |
The Improvising Musician’s Mask: Using Musical Instruments to Build Self-Confidence and Social Skills in Collective Free Improvisation Dr. Kathryn Ladano |
Paper |
| Sateren Auditorium | 11:00a | Feng Bian, Solo Piano Performance | Performance |
| Room M22 | 11:30a |
Cultivating Creative Musicianship in the 21st Century Stephanie Khoury |
Paper |
| Room M23 | 11:30a |
Sound, Noise, and Music: Chasing Ideas Robert Burke (saxophone) |
Performance |
| Hoversten Chapel | 11:30a | Future of ISIM Panel discussion with ISIM Board of Directors: Ed Sarath, Kathleen Camara, Jin Hi Kim, Anthony Branker, Alex Rodriguez, Richard Robeson | Panel Discussion |
| Room M22 | 12:00p |
The Door is Open: The Story of the York College Community Jam Session Dr. Tom Zlabinger |
Paper |
| Room M2 | 12:00p |
Solo Piano and Effects Tim Peck |
Performance |
| Room M22 | 12:30p |
Cyborg-ed Sounds and Re-Imagined Identities: Women in Berlin’s Echtzeit Scene Paul Roth |
Paper |
| Room M16 | 1:30p | Georgetown Day School’s Jazz and Creative Music ensemble, directed by Brad Linde, performs music from Anthony Coleman, Anthony Braxton, and John Zorn’s COBRA | Performance |
| Room M23 | 2:00p |
New Improvisation for Sarode: Exploring Extended Technique and the Use of Electronics with a 23 stringed North Indian lute Matthew Noone |
Performance |
| Sateren Auditorium | 2:00p |
Improvisation in Occidental Music History From Renaissance to Nowadays, Re-shaping Music History Around its Three Main Components: Improvisation, Composition, Performance Raphael Sudan |
Presentation |
| Room M3 | 2:00p |
Harp+ Grace Scheele (Harp/Electronics), Arie van de Ven (Viola/Electronics), Dave Klassen (Synthesizer) |
Performance |
| Room M22 | 2:30p |
Walking in Sound: Exploring the Environment as a Source of Inspiration for Group Improvisation Dr. Anthony D.J. Branker |
Paper |
| Room M16 | 2:30p |
Improvising with Birds and the Sounds of Nature: An Artist Talk and Performance Diane Moser (piano), Anton Denner (flute/piccolo), Ken Filiano (bass) |
Presentation and Performance |
| Room M2 | 2:30p |
Fragmentos de um Jardim Carole Ott Coelho (soprano), Tadeu Coelho (flute) |
Performance |
| Room M23 | 3:00p |
The Use of Improvisation for Health and Well-being Annette Heiderscheit, Emma Moonier |
Workshop
|
| Hoversten Chapel | 3:00p |
Sonorous Threshold Harold McKinney (trombone), Rob Falvo (percussion), Karen Robertson (horn), Patrick Whitehead (trumpet), and guest Jiří Pazour (piano) |
Performance |
| Sateren Auditorium | 3:00p |
Present Quartet Ellen Burr (flutes), Anne LeBaron (harp), Jeff Schwartz (double bass), Charles Sharp (reeds) |
Performance |
| Room M3 | 3:30p |
Found Patrick Booth and guests |
Performance |
| Room M2 | 3:30p |
Improvisation & Black Cultural Practice in the Upper-Midwest Davu Seru (faculty, Hamline University) and performance poet Douglas Kearney (faculty, University of Minnesota) with Janis Lane-Ewart and vocalist Mankwe Ndosi of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
Performance with multi-instrumentalist Douglas R. Ewart, poet/mc Tish Jones, vocalist/electronics artist Andrea Reynolds, multi-instrumentalist Dameun Strange, vocalist Sarah Greer, poet/mc Joe Horton, bassist Anthony Cox, dancer/percussionist Kenna Cottman, percussionist Stephanie Watts, painter/percussionist Ta-coumba Aiken |
Panel and Performance |
| Room M16 | 4:00p |
Freedom in Sound is Freedom in Life Jonathan Crane (double bass) |
Performance |
| Sateren Auditorium | 4:00p |
Creative Music and the Gift Economy: Between Community and Institutions The Present Quartet |
Presentation |
| Room M3 | 4:30p |
University of Tennessee Electroacoustic Ensemble Jorge Variego (electronics), Cullen Burke (percussion), Dakota Johnson(cello) |
Performance |
| Room M16 | 5:00p |
Solo works on C-melody saxophone Brad Linde |
Performance |
| Sateren Auditorium | 6:30p |
Project ISIM Douglas Ewart and Kathryn Ladano (woodwinds), Ed Sarath (flugelhorn), Richard Robeson (guitar), Rafael Sudan (piano), and Billy Satterwhite (bass) |
Performance |
| Room | Time |
SATURDAY MAY 18, 2019 |
|
| Room M22 | 9:30a |
Music for People: 30 Years of Teaching Free Improvisation David Rudge and Mary E. Knysh |
Workshop |
| Hoversten Chapel | 10:00a |
Encouraging Classically Trained Musicians to Improvise and Compose: Pedagogical Methods through Variations and Ballet Accompanying Dr. Yoshiko Arahata |
Presentation |
| Room M2 | 10:00a |
Technologies Developed for Improvising with Dancers Jason Palamara |
Presentation |
| Room M23 | 10:30a |
Improvising Society: How Musical Structures Mirror Our Ideals Dr. Jeff Albert |
Presentation |
| Sateren Auditorium | 10:30a |
Musical Fusions in Cross-Genre Improvisation Dr. Carla Becker |
Presentation |
| Room M23 | 11:00a |
Actions for Improviser Alone Dr. Jeff Albert (trombone) |
Performance |
| Room M16 | 11:00a |
Solo Performance of Carve for Bassoon and Electronics Dana Jessen |
Performance |
| Room M22 | 11:30a |
Cartoons That Shook the World: Adventures in Animation & Fantasy with Live Improvised Accompaniment Tina Chancey, Ph.D. |
Presentation and performance |
| Room M3 | 11:30a |
Transforming and Empowering Community Through the Arts Kathleen A. Camara, Ph.D. with panelists Justin Merrick, Shay Stevens, and Greg Thompson |
Panel |
| Room M23 | 12:00p |
Electric bass with an analog KORG MS10 Phil Fried |
Performance |
| Hoversten Chapel | 12:00p |
Concert of Tones and Colours Jiri Pazour (piano), Olga Volfova (painter) |
Performance |
| Room M2 | 12:00p |
The Parking Ramp Project Peter Hennig (Drums), Cody McKinney (Bass / Electronics), John C.S. Keston (Rhodes / Synth) |
Performance |
| Room M3 | 2:00p |
Abstractions for Saxophone and Piano Bob Hallahan (piano) and David Pope (sax) |
Performance |
| Sateren Auditorium | 2:30p |
Saxello and Piano Dr. Robert Vincs (saxello), Raphael Sudan (piano) |
performance |
| Room M22 | 2:30p |
For a Theory of Improvised Cinema: Hearing Free Jazz in Jean-Luc Godard’s “1PM” (1968) Matthias Mushinski |
Presentation |
| Room M16 | 2:30p |
Static Announcements by Electroacoustic Trio Keith Kelly (Saxes), Ryan Anthony (Drums), Josh Bennett (Clarinets and Electronics) |
Performance |
| Hoversten Chapel | 2:30p |
Experiments in Three, and Variation of Sounds – Traveling Between A Barrel and A Heart By Maja Radovanlija (guitar), with Sean Eagan (riffle-flute made by Pedram Baldari), Jay Alfrisando (riffle-flute by P.B.), Jelena Marta Glišić (video), Scott Currie (saxopone, duduk), Alex Lubet (bass, dulcimer) |
Performance |
| Room M3 | 3:00p |
The Education of the Free-Improviser Casey Sokol |
Presentation and Workshop |
| Sateren Auditorium | 3:30p |
Ambient Spaces Randy Klein (piano), Robert Appleton (electronic multimedia) |
Performance |
| Room M16 | 4:00p |
Ask Not Keith Kelly, featuring Static Announcements Trio |
Performance |
| Sateren Auditorium | 4:00p |
Winds on a String Glen Whitehead (trumpet), Pat O’Keefe (woodwinds), Kevin Davis (cello) |
Performance |
| Hoversten Chapel | 4:30p | Kathryn Ladano (bass clarinet) & Douglas Ewart (woodwinds) performance | Performance |
| Room M2 | 4:30p |
Beyond Identities Andrzej Rejman (piano), Eliza Paś-Dimitrow (voice) |
Performance |
| Room M3 | 6:30p |
Improvised Duets for Electric Guitar and Piano Gary Prince (guitar), Matt Endahl (piano) |
performance |
| Sateren Auditorium | 6:30p |
Modular Piano “Comprovisation” based on Anthony Braxton’s Language Musics Christian Asplund (piano) |
performance |
| Place | Time |
SUNDAY MAY 19, 2019 |
|
| Room M2 | 9:00a |
Mark-Making, the Improviser’s Trace Maria Donohue (piano) |
Presentation and performance |
| Room M3 | 9:30a |
Solo Double Bass Matthew Frerck |
Performance |
| Room M3 | 10:30a |
As Long As There’s Music: Spirituality in Charlie Haden’s Performance and Solo on “Irene” Fumi Tomita (double bass) |
Presentation and performance |
| Hoversten Chapel | 11:00a |
Cosmography 4 and Fortune Cookies 8 Phillip Foster (composer) |
Performance |
| Hoversten Chapel | 12:00p |
Petrichor Breana Gilcher (oboes), Alkis Nicolaides (guitar), and Miller Wrenn (double bass) |
Performance |
| Sateren Auditorium | 1:00p | Closing Session |