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The Jazz Composers Orchestra Readings at Columbia University on June 5 and 6

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the American Composers Orchestra will present the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings. The ACO will perform new works for orchestra by eight composers who participated in a week-long Jazz Composers Orchestra Intensive, held on the Columbia University campus in July 2010. 30 jazz-identified composers in various ...

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Improvisation and Phantasmal Media - D. Fox Harrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in conversation with Alondra Nelson, Columbia University

According to D. Fox Harrell, who coined the term, the notion of phantasmal media is about “artful uses of computational systems. Phantasmal media works both create mental imagery and challenge and provoke users' idealized cognitive models by enabling active participation imbued with culture and critical awareness...computing to enable new imaginative possibilities and attempting to understand the ...

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The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Presents: The Creative Music Studio: A Symposium with Karl Berger, moderator

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Presents: The Creative Music Studio:  A Symposium with Karl Berger, moderator

The Creative Music Studio: A Symposium with Karl Berger, moderator During the 1970s and 1980s, the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio was widely considered as the premier center for the study of contemporary creative music. Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, CMS brought together leading innovators in the jazz and world music ...

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Monument Eternal: Alice Coltrane's Spiritual Aesthetics, with Franya Berkman, Lewis and Clark College

Monument Eternal: Alice Coltrane's Spiritual Aesthetics, with Franya Berkman, Lewis and Clark College

Monday, March 28, 2011, 8:00 pm 622 Dodge Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus Free and open to the public. The author will sign copies of her book at the event. Alice Coltrane was a composer, improviser, guru, and widow of John Coltrane. Over the course of her musical life, she ...

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Recursive Improvisations: The Art of Eric Metcalfe, With Jason Moran and Naomi Beckwith

Recursive Improvisations:  The Art of Eric Metcalfe, With Jason Moran and Naomi Beckwith

An introduction to the art of Canadian avant-garde artist Eric Metcalfe opens out into a discussion of the complex relationship among jazz, art, and contemporary global culture. Thursday, March 24, 2011, 7:30 pm 301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus Free and open to the public Vancouver-based artist Eric Metcalfe (b. 1940) ...

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Harmonic Earthquakes and "Sonic" Notes from the Underground: Improvisation and Tremors of Transatlantic Discontent, a talk by Sarita McCoy Gregory, Vassar College

This talk examines the musical festival documented in 2004 called Banlieue Bleues, which featured African American musicians from the AACM tradition. In scientific parlance, harmonic earthquakes are seismic pre-tremors that predict major earthquakes. Because the media tend to focus on the seemingly “spontaneous" events of “riots" or urban “protests," what is often missed are the tremors ...

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The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: The jazz composer, moving music off the paper

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: The jazz composer, moving music off the paper

A book reading and signing with Graham Collier “Jazz happens in real time, once."  This mantra has provided the inspiration for my music and my beliefs about jazz, which are at the core of  the jazz composer. The work of the three icons of jazz composition—Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Gil Evans—is dealt with at length, ...

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The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents: African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston

A book reading and signing with Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins Packed with fascinating anecdotes, African Rhythms is Randy Weston's life story as told to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston's childhood in the Brooklyn neighborhood where his parents imbued him with pride in his African heritage, his introduction to jazz, and his early ...

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Conversations with Composers: Henry Threadgill in Conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards

Conversations with Composers: Henry Threadgill in Conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents its Conversations Series, through which Brent Hayes Edwards will engage leading composer Henry Threadgill in a reflection on the role of improvisation in his creative life. Threadgill's compositions are strikingly original, always surprising, and far-reaching. Though his ensembles—Air, the Sextett, Very Very Circus, the Society Situation Dance ...

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Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Presents Conversations with Composers: Roy Nathanson

Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University Presents Conversations with Composers: Roy Nathanson

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents its Conversations Series, through which the Center's renowned faculty will engage leading composer Roy Nathanson in a reflection on the role of improvisation in his creative life. Roy Nathanson is a composer, saxophonist, songwriter, poet, actor, and teacher. He is the leader and principal composer of the ...


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